Week End Quotes

• Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

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  Winston Churchill

  War   Leader   Feelings  

  Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

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• Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it".

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  Will Rogers

  Promise   Done   Politics  

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• What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

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  Julian Fellowes

  Week   Maggie   Ends  

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• When Fashion Week ends, I miss the shows and the shot of adrenaline that comes with them. Each day is a new show, a new fitting, and you make new friends. Every season you get to know the other girls a little better.

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  Magdalena Frackowiak

  Girl   Fashion   Missing  

  "Model Hot Seat: Magdalena Frackowiak" by Emily Hebert, www.elle.com. September 11, 2009.

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• Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you.

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  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing   Dollars   Scarcity  

  Claude C. Hopkins (2016). “Scientific Advertising”, p.59, Laurus - Lexecon Kft.

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• Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art.

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  Walter J. Phillips

  Art   Integrity   Independence  

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• The successful truck gardener can never go out to dinner in the summer or spend a week end away, because his conscience tells him he has to be at home eating up his corn or packaging his beans for the freezer.

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  Phyllis McGinley

  Summer   Home   Successful  

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