#kel

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

#before #being #first #gone #had

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success. ↗

— Lewis Hallam

#attended #censured #consequence #expedition #fatal

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly. ↗

— Eduard Hanslick

#apprehended #arts #beautiful #feelings #follows

I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done. ↗

— Mark Harmon

#attracted #business #characters #done #i

I see my skeleton walking down the street now. I’m walking behind it. Our feet touch the ground at the same time. I am my own shadow. The road we’re walking along looks familiar. The trees lining the pavement have been bleached by the sun. There are stone steps on my left. I climb them. This is the route I used to take after school. It’s very dark. The skeleton has disappeared. ↗

— Ma Jian

#shadow #skeleton #death

The Skeleton Chattering finch and water-fly Are not merrier than I; Here among the flowers I lie Laughing everlastingly. No: I may not tell the best; Surely, friends, I might have guessed Death was but the good King's jest, It was hid so carefully. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#hope #laughter #skeleton #death

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#because #case #court #day #favorable

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#ball #complains #dropped #likely #man

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#assassination #death #democracy #extinction #indifference

There is nothing likely to get you a bigger headline than attacking your own party. ↗

— Michael Laws

#bigger #get #headline #likely #nothing