#caught

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#caught #got #hail #i #jackass

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

#caught #egg #fire #full #into

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#adultery #another #caught #could #evil

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. ↗

— Lee Atwater

#country #deadly #decay #dime #eye

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#around #bonds #burst #caught #eager

Getting caught is the mother of invention. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#getting #invention #mother

Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#caught #door #housekeeping #like #revolving

When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#caught #else #film #get #going

Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage. ↗

— Judy Davis

#because #boy #california #caught #consensus

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#behavior #caught #early #first #hardship