#lets

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#bullets #cannon #composed #corners #debts

If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team. ↗

— Jurgen Klinsmann

#decisions #lets #lost #made #national

I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#bullets #got #i #i think #like

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#carry #experiments #fiction #lets #nice

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn't like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands - its Paul Ryan's budget. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#budget #code #favorite #haven #his

I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#called #department #general #i #know

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#chance #expensive #fortune #getting #giving

When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything. ↗

— Cindy Sheehan

#always #bombs #build #bullets #communists

The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn't bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#been #before #bring #civilian #civilians

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#always #idealism #many #natural #outlets