#bid

Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him. ↗

— Dolley Madison

#come #covered #dust #fly #him

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#been #bid #birth #country #death

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem. ↗

— James Merrill

#elements #find #forbidding #greek #helped

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#any #foot #ignorance #illness #just

Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#i #immigration #law-abiding #legal #legal immigration

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.' ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#army #asked #bidding #cheney #competitive

Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#commenting #department #despite #each #hired

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it? ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#comfort #cut #exercise #fails #forbidden

Folks are really tired of this rabid division between Republicans and Democrats. Folks want people to come together and solve the problems and the challenges of America. ↗

— Bev Perdue

#between #challenges #come #democrats #division

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused. ↗

— Richard Perle

#confused #invisibility #law-abiding #law-abiding citizens #privacy