#lies

Poetry lies its way to the truth. ↗

— John Ciardi

#poetry #truth #way

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#does #door #find #flies #fortune

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive. ↗

— John Moody

#did #earliest #even #horses #locomotive

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it. ↗

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

#breeding #flies #got #i #nothing

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#behind #came #changed #families #father

I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me. ↗

— Graham Nash

#beginning #good #hollies #i #lately

We have been spending beyond our means, we are going to focus on the projects that we committed to in the election but importantly if there is additional projects or new things that come up they have to have a business case, they have to work and they can't impose financial stress on families and private individuals and businesses. ↗

— Campbell Newman

#been #beyond #business #businesses #case

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies? ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

#failure #likely #material #might #operation

It's the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It's not the secure kids that get out there and fight. It's the insecure kids. ↗

— Chuck Norris

#bullies #fight #fighting #get #insecure

If the Republican Party works with the Hispanic community, the immigrant community, they're natural allies. People who came to this country are more freedom-loving and more American than people who just happened to be born here. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#american #born #came #community #country