Wipe Quotations

When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean.

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.

I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.

I spent money, and I kept thinking, 'I get one more movie and I'll wipe these bills out,' but that movie never came. That black pride, I said, 'Man, I'm going to hang in there, I'm going to pay these bills.' So you owe a million dollars. 'I can pay that.' OK, fines, fees, now you owe two and a half million. 'But I didn't do nothin'!'

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture

Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.

Clearly, unless thinking beings inevitably wipe themselves out soon after developing technology, extraterrestrial intelligence could often be millions or billions of years in advance of us. We're the galaxy's noodling newbies.

You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the smaller the losses required to wipe out a company's equity, leaving it without enough money to repay the people who hold its debt.

War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.

My mother wasn't controlling at all. She was a stabilizing force who grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. Now it's the big circle game. Taking care of her is a great blessing for me. I'll tuck her into bed, kiss her on the cheek, wipe up the mess on her blouse from whatever she spilled.

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

I love Neutrogena's Makeup Remover Cleansing Wipes. They get all my makeup off and are really moisturizing.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.

Here, you go to the supermarket and you have wipes to clean your hands before shopping. No, we don't have that in France, but we recycle

If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

Bush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all. And I'm going to take the country in an opposite direction than he's taking it.

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

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion...

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

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

Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.

Natural gas emits only half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned, but if methane leaks when oil companies extract it from the ground in a sloppy manner - methane is far more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide - it can wipe out all the advantages of natural gas over coal.

I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.

If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean.

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.

Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.

Y2K hype taps our native discomfort with the realities of a dynamic, evolving social order. It elevates personal, local contact over the impersonality of the 'extended order' of trade and technological networks. It suggests that we can wipe the slate clean and start from scratch.

Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.

We've added a few events each year to try and make it that (bad) weather conditions won't wipe out the whole thing.

What we're saying to people is 'Look, we'll wipe that (Internet access) cost out for you, but make your other calls through our service and we'll give you discounts (of 30 percent compared with standard British Telecom rates),

With these homes, there's no green space. They're building on the entire lot. They'll change the whole vision and character. Once you wipe out history, you don't get it back.

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?

That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on

If someone sprays windex in your food it can give you diarrhea. But once you wipe it off your windows, you're fine.

God wants to wipe away your past and lift your burdens. Do you let Him?

The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret.

It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.

Today, John Kerry announced a fool-proof plan to wipe out the $500B deficit. John Kerry has a plan, he's going to put it on his wife's Gold Card.

Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties?

Yes, it is a priority of the White House, ... We are moving expeditiously to implement the law. We think all these items will increase the supply this winter. However, everyone is saying it won't be enough to wipe out the impact of the hurricanes and all that.

We had no margin of error, just wipe the slate clean and focus on the next game. Don't worry about the playoffs. Don't worry about what's taken place.

The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.

We are creating the future. It is not determined. If we get our act together and solve our current problems, we could have a sustainable, abundant future. If we don't, we could wipe ourselves out. We are on the verge of doing it with our current politics. It is regressive, going back the other way.

Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.

My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.

On the red carpet, I'm playing a character. As soon as I get off that thing, I think, 'Oof, wipe that gloss off.' I'm wiping and wiping and pulling my hair out and trying to change my outfit. I'm immediately trying to get comfortable. It's really a part I play.

On one hand, I think people are destined for something incredible if we don't wipe ourselves out, but I think we're going to wipe 90 percent of ourselves out.

I would be remiss if I said there were not philosophical differences as far as the club and how we put it together, what would work and not work. The disruption and focus loss with players is not good for anyone. That's where I felt strongly that it was important to wipe the slate clean.

I would be all over the piano, but Miles would play a few notes that would just wipe out all that fancy stuff I was playing.

If they can get that they can wipe out my account.

If they keep this up for years they are going to completely wipe out winter tourism.

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

I can either side with what I think is right as far as corruption is concerned, or I can wipe it under the rug. The nature of this job is you either make people mad as a result of events and investigations, or you make them happy by sugar-coating it and sweeping it under the rug. And I chose not to go that route.

I can't keep the mirrors clean in my condo. We're constantly having to clean and wipe grease up.

If a wave of service sweeps over the land, catching everyone in its enthusiasm, it will be able to wipe off the mounds of hatred, malice and greed that infest the World. Attune your hearts so that it will vibrate in sympathy with the woes and joys of your fellow-men. Fill the World with Love. Love will warn you against advising another to do something which you yourself are unwilling to do; your conscience will tell you that you are living in a lie!

I don't think we should panic. There were a lot of new guys out there for the first time. It's a complete team effort when you're out there on that kickoff, and if one guy gets out of his lane or doesn't get across the guy's face, it can wipe out a whole side. And it happened on one kickoff (against San Diego).

For three years now, the administration has been sending the message that cruel and inhuman treatment is OK. Now the McCain amendment is going to wipe all of that away. It reminds everybody who's on the front line that the rules are the rules, and if somebody tells you they don't apply, don't listen to them.

For those who want to wipe the slate clean and to avoid a potential lawsuit, this is the way to go.

Given the New York market's setback on geopolitical concerns, the market here may wipe off half or more of the gains it saw yesterday.

If this woman doesn't meet the test of insanity in this state, then nobody does. We might as well wipe it from the books.

He had no little handkerchief to wipe his little nose.

We've got to wipe this out. Hopefully we'll play well for four quarters and not two. We'll try to comeback Monday ready to go.

We may as well wipe it off the books.

We look at each game on the schedule as a separate entity. We play it, we evaluate it, then we wipe the slate clean and move on.

Humanity is quite a unique species, since it is the only one with the means to wipe itself out.

He didn't wipe the water off the doors.

He just tried to wipe the last two starts out, and he went out there and tried to start over.

It could be terrible with the south west wind blowing the way it is. It could wipe it out quick. I mean, theirs a subdivision back behind it and all and it could go quick.

I think about what's going down my sink. So I won't pour oil down my sink. I won't - if I'm cleaning a pan, I'll wipe it and bin because I've seen - I've been down sewers.

It gives people a little peace of mind that they can wipe off their cart handle, especially if they have children who tend to stick their fingers in their mouth.

It has been a long season for us. Coming into this game, we just wanted to wipe our slate clean and say that we're 0-0, and we have an opportunity to play one game. The only way we get another opportunity is if we win. I think everybody in this locker room realized that.

I ... welcome our new president elect in a most heartfelt and sincere way, ... We will wipe the slate clean, begin anew with recognition of many challenges ahead. Bipartisan work is ahead.

Otherwise we would get professionals who do this all the time and have all the expensive equipment come in and try to wipe out the locals.

People are buying the environment. If you wipe it all out, it's not going to be a fun place.

Pakistan test-fired its first cruise missile Thursday in a blatant attempt to intimidate India. It flies beneath radar. If they attacked India with a nuclear cruise missile it could wipe out the entire United States customer service industry.

Our role is to wipe out insecurity ... if we have to eliminate those chaps by force, we will do it.

Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.

President Bouteflika's effort to wipe the slate clean is an affront to long standing civil society efforts to bring justice and accountability, ... Leaving the legacy of Algeria's abhorrent conflict unresolved creates an obstacle to lasting peace and, by de facto offering immunity to those responsible for grave crimes, raises the specter of future human rights abuses.

President Bouteflika's effort to wipe the slate clean is an affront to long standing civil society efforts to bring justice and accountability, ... Leaving the legacy of Algeria's abhorrent conflict unresolved creates an obstacle to lasting peace and, by de facto offering immunity to those responsible for grave crimes, raises the specter of future human rights abuses.

Some growers have lost 100% of their crop, a blow from which they may never recover. This is going to wipe some growers out.

It feels all right. You have to constantly wipe off the water, but it's something you have to get used to, ... I'm going to have to wear it for the next three weeks, and hopefully I can keep it on for the remainder of the year.

I think Prince is very sincere. He would like to wipe all the slates clean and not have this happen anymore, but I don't know if he can guarantee that in an organization of this size.

It doesn't take much to wipe out the treasury,

Just be careful how you put it back down, or you can wipe out a population the size of Manhattan.

That would be an incredible change that would wipe a lot of low-lying areas off the map, like Florida, like Bangladesh, and would fundamentally change our coastline in Britain.

You buy a house and you get it checked out and you feel like you've kind of made your mark here in some way. And then an act of God just comes up the coast and has the potential to just completely wipe it clean. Weather like that is certainly humbling.

will wipe this stigma from the face of the Islamic world.