#canal

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#canal #congress #debate #does #goes

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#between #canals #channeled #deal #drown

Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find out which principles you'll stand by to your death--and which lines you'll cross." He took my empty glass away and said, "You're heading into the badlands. It'll be easy to get lost. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#mac-mcanally #principles #change

As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the island dead, once they set foot on it. But no one expected to be one of these. Still it was an awesome thought and as the first contingents came struggling up on deck in full gear to form up, all eyes instinctively sought out immediately this island where they were to be put, and left, and which might possibly turn out to be a friend's grave. ↗

— James Jones

#death #disembarkation #friends #graves #guadalcanal

Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

#because #birth #born #canal #distorts

Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER! ↗

— Omar Torrijos Herrera

#dead #find #knees #negotiations #never

Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#autopsy #awake #being #canal #during

Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended. ↗

— Edwin Starr

#cause #cubans #done #draft #enough

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#canal #feats #his #learns #literary

In my own area, Hood Canal, we are working with the USGS on dealing with this oxygenation problem. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#canal #dealing #hood #my own #own