#gain

They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought. ↗

— John Mica

#advanced technology #again #body #done #down

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#know #minute #politics #room #unless

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again. ↗

— Laurel Lee

#beyond #could #forgive #form #grooves

The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#being #best #came #cannot #come

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim. ↗

— Alice Foote MacDougall

#after #again #almost #arrives #because

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#against #doing #his #interests #keep

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#hold #past #people #right #road

All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#ajar #all day #cat #day #door

If you ever want to eat a tuna sandwich again, don't go to a tuna factory. I visited one where they had two lines: one was the human food line and one was the cat food line - and they didn't look any different. ↗

— Mark Mobius

#any #cat #different #eat #ever

I was just glad to be going to work again. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#glad #going #i #just #work