#ling

I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I willing to lay a tax simply for protection when the Government does not need the money. ↗

— Joseph E. Brown

#collect #direct #does #free-trade #government

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#capacity #compassion #else #fatal #feeling

I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command. ↗

— John Buford

#brave #brave men #command #country #i

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. ↗

— Lord Byron

#entire #ever #motive #myself #scribbling

Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him. ↗

— Herman Cain

#blame #border #clear #concessions #generous

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. ↗

— Michael Caine

#calm #dickens #duck #like #like a duck

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer. ↗

— Simon Callow

#becoming #characters #find #great #great writer

The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#come #counterintelligence #department #detect #evident

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#fish #flailing #getting #guys #hit

An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married. ↗

— Billie Burke

#always #aside #audience #because #cannot