#lon

The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success. ↗

— Roy Wilkins

#disengagement #easy #flight #hard #jumps

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain. ↗

— George Will

#among #away #gain #get #inflict

Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ↗

— Bern Williams

#books #had #instant #long #replay

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#action #animate #any #basic #basic human rights

The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#capable #confront #destruction #effort #greatest

My wife and children seem to like me quite a bit, and as long as that is true, I'm really OK. ↗

— Brian Williams

#children #i #like #long #me

I used to like whiskey. But it's been a long time since I've been drunk. ↗

— Claude Williams

#drunk #i #like #long #long time

In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone. ↗

— Dar Williams

#blessed #know #laughing #lucky #quiet

Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long. ↗