#get

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#against #budgetary #care #desires #gop

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives. ↗

— John Poindexter

#enough #experiments #failure #failures #get

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. ↗

— Roman Polanski

#forget #make #should #sitting #theater

And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early. ↗

— John Pomfret

#early #enough #get #go #i

Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living. ↗

— Shannen Doherty

#could #frustrated #get #granted #i

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#another #editor #get #give #go

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#being #commits #error #errors #essential

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country. ↗

— Colin Powell

#between #called #contract #country #creating

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#every #every time #getting #getting old #going

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words. ↗

— Enoch Powell

#friend #get #his #i #never