#feat

I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#been #city #come #commercials #company

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong". ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#acts #excluded #feats #hardest #hate

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event. ↗

— Benjamin Harrison

#any #best #change #day #defeated

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated. ↗

— Brad Henry

#became #called #compassion #defeated #face

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#feather #head #over #slap #them

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death. ↗

— Rupert Holmes

#been #bitten #both #butter #cream

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama. ↗

— Steny Hoyer

#leader #mitch #number #obama #president

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#element #feature #fundamental #second #striving

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man. ↗

— William H. Hunt

#distorted #features #his #imaginative #man

I told you you’d come", said a nearby voice, one Isobel knew well. "You said you would." (…) "You shouldn’t have, though", he said, and looked up, his face twisted with anger. "Even if we knew you would, you shouldn’t have." He got up and began moving toward her. "Why", he growled, "when we will only show you we are not worth it? Why, when we have no other choice but to prove to you we’re not worth it? ↗

— Kelly Creagh

#isobel #pinfeathers #varen #anger