#hit

Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#between #dealing #doing #eyes #four

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. ↗

— Walter Scott

#call #himself #history #knowledge #lawyer

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#existence #hitherto #immoral #knowledge #morality

When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#broken #feel #gust #hits #wind

Whitney smacked Coop's snout while simultaneously pressing herself deeper into the couch. Coop fixed her with an unblinking ice-blue stare, gray-brown fur bristling along his spine. "Tory!" Whitney squealed. "He's going to attack!" "Maybe." I walked into the kitchen and snagged a Diet Coke from the fridge. "Try to protect your throat. ↗

— Kathy Reichs

#humor #tory #tory-brennan #whitney-dubois #diet

I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you don't set goals, then you have nowhere to go. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#believe #go #goals #going #hit

We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left. ↗

— Pierre Laval

#given #got #hitler #hold #left

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#black or white #generally #i #labeled #most

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner. ↗