#call

Wake up America! The insurance companies took over health care! Wake up America! The pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing! Wake up America! The speculators took over Wall Street! Wake up America! They want your Social Security! Wake up America! Multinational corporations took over our trade policies! Wake up America! We went into Iraq for oil! WAKE UP AMERICA! ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#critisism #incompetence #wake-up-call #iraq

He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself. ↗

— James Finn Garner

#humour #politically-correct #red-riding-hood #satire #wolf

I turned to books for comfort. (Former First Lady, Laura Bush) ↗

— Laura Bush

#political #politically-correct #telling #biography

He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#fae #fantasy #good-read #moon-called #vampires

He props his elbow on the table, absently scratches his temple with his index finger, and I remember exactly what that index finger did to me earlier. How he circled my nipples with that finger, how he slipped it between my legs, drenched it with my wetness and then brought it up to his mouth, licking it, tasting me, his gaze never leaving mine… ↗

— Monica Murphy

#erotic #fable-maguire #romance #erotic-romance

It's like scrying into that weird space. There's so much coming out of him, it shouldn't be possible. Do you remember that woman who came in who was pregnant with quadruplets? It was like that, but worse." "He's pregnant?" Blue asked. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#calla #lol #raven-boys #lol

The game has basically not changed since I ended my career. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#career #changed #ended #game #i

I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#because #called #days #desire #federation

No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote. ↗

— Gary Ackerman

#floor #vote #you #your

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned. ↗

— Henry Adams

#calling #divinity #effort #every #every man