#closing

Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#bomb #capacity #care #certain #cliff

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#dropped #end #life #like #masks

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities. ↗

— Richard Powers

#awful #because #candy #closing #door

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#about #closing #door #during #guess

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#closing #does #leave #party #time

Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks. ↗

— Ted Kulongoski

#choosing #closing #elections #ranks #sides

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#door #late #long #open #see

The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#closing #code #corporate #could #create

I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic. ↗

— Jewel

#atlantic #back #birthdays #car #cause

Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws which would force ISPs to block or degrade BitTorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#bank #because #block #blocking #closing