Wipe Quotes

• To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Love, Broken Heart, Stars

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• When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mean, Numbers, America

  "Arundhati Roy: "We May Not Need Peace in This Unjust Society; You Need People Who Are Prepared to Resist"". "Democracy Now!" Interview, www.alternet.org. March 23, 2010.

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• Wake up everyday stronger than yesterday, face your fears and wipe your tears.

  Tyga

  Yesterday, Everyday, Tears

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• No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Peace, War, Opponents

  "Treasury of the Free World". Book by Ben Raeburn. Introduction to the book, 1946.

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• May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong.

  Chief Dan George

  Stars, Flower, Condolences

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• If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

  Victor Borge

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Lying, Teaching, Persistence

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• I can change a diaper in 30 seconds flat. I set the new one beneath the old one. That way, it's just wipe and pull the flap over

  Drew Brees

  Diapers, Way, Flats

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• This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!

  Emma Thompson

  Daughter, Mother, Morning

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• Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Kids, Thinking, Should

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• Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

  Karen Armstrong

  Fundamentalist Religion, Islam, Wiping Out

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• God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Science, Knives

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.181, Vintage

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• Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.

  Michele Bachmann

  Jobs, Unemployment, Gone

  "Michele Bachmann Said What?!" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. June 6, 2011.

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• We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one, and we are now facing the sixth mass extinction in cosmological history. If any other organism did this, a biologist would consider them a virus.

  Philip Wollen

  Animal, Mass Extinction, Years

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• Most societies wipe themselves out and it's interesting to read about the last days of past civilizations. You'll note that the last days of past civilizations were filled with idiotic, irrational ideas and behaviors that couldn't be explained by reason.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Past, Civilization, Ideas

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Do not worry at all about negative thoughts, and do not try to control them. All you have to do is begin to think good thoughts each day. Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day. As you begin to think good thoughts you will attract more and more good thoughts, and eventually the good thoughts will wipe out the negative thoughts altogether.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Thinking, Worry, Trying

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Names, Way, Ass

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Don't expect a stranger to wipe your nose.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Learning, Noses, Stranger

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• I saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Saws, Scared

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• Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Men, Two, Laughing

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• When I see the migrant workers broken bodies and eyes without hope, I want to embrace and wipe away their fears. It makes me angry and helps me to keep fighting the oppressive system.

  Irene Fernandez

  Anger, Eye, Fighting

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• Each individual cat got up and did his thing. It wasn't like today where they come down and put down some nice linoleum so you don't get burnt up. I mean, we used to b-boy right in the middle of the park with broken glass everywhere! And you'd get up and you'd be all scratched and burised and bleeding and you would be ready to go right back in the circle. You'd just wipe the glass off your elbows and go right back in.

  Jazzy Jay

  Nice, Mean, Cat

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• You'll see that it'll take more than five and a half months to wipe away peel;scrape away the blanket of ignorance that has been plastered and replastered over those brains in the past three hundred years. You'll see.

  Matthew Antoine

  Ignorance, Past, Years

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• There is no doubt that the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will wipe off this stigma [Israel] from the face of the Islamic world.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Islamic, Israel, Doubt

  "Israel should be wiped off map, says Iran's president" by Ewen MacAskill and Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2005.

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• The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.

  George Orwell

  Class, Tendencies, Middle

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.276, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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