After Quotes

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.

I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.

In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.

After every war someone has to tidy up.