#lon

We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#been #conflict #construed #defence #fear

It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#any #arrived #art college #beach #becoming

We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury. ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#end #filled #finger #glass #inverted

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have. ↗

— Randy Travis

#doubt #farther #get #helped #i

London is full of creative people - you can never say that it's not. ↗

— Luke Treadaway

#creative people #full #london #never #people

A little man often cast a long shadow. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#little #little man #long #man #often

My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#care #good #good time #i #i do

There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#chasing #dogs #last #long #pros

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#campaigns #haul #long #long haul #making

You hear about these shows where there are all these women are supposedly always in a catfight, and then you find out in reality that they're all getting along fine. ↗

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

#along #always #catfight #find #fine