Quotes About Wouk

The lesson was writ plain by Thucydides centuries before Christ was born. Democracy satisfies best the human thirst for freedom; yet, being undisciplined, turbulent, and luxury-seeking, it falls time and again to austere single-minded despotism.

dithyramb coming to majestic life: a swarm of fresh seapower

Not that I really think the Caine is inanimate. It's an iron poltergeist sent into the world by God

assistance of France. In London, Eban fared better, receiving no such threat from Prime Minister Harold Wilson; but Wilson

Feynman asked Wouk if he knew calculus. No, Wouk admitted, he didn't. "You had better learn it," said Feynman. "It's the language God talks.

This is an excellent martini — sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.

Sir, my inferior understanding prevents my grasping the unquestionable soundness of the mission.