#ck

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#distressing #everything #follows #into #life

It had a very long pendulum,and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge,because it was the kind of deliberate annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life. It was the kind of sound that suggested very pointedly that in some hypothetical hourglass somewhere,another few grains of sand had dropped out form under you. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#death #death

Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group. ↗

— Bruce Johnston

#back #brian #came #group #member

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#builds #capitalism #destroys #get #left

In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#beliefs #bent #dangerous #fact #fanatics

Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#believe #black #breaks #franchise #hispanic

We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office. ↗

— Pete Stark

#bush #getting #jobs #long #long way

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#completely #either #men #noble #nuance

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cliff #fallen #good #his #man

One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the terrorist attacks. A significant chunk was taken out of the economy by what happened after the attacks of 9/11. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#attacks #because #big #chunk #deficit