#ma

The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault. ↗

— Ty Cobb

#bag #base #baseman #belonged #business

You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#country #europe #keep #like #map

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#around #book #due #head #i

Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor for a long time and now they can do it. They got animation. NO more actor, although for now they still have to borrow a voice or two. Anyway, I find it abhorrent. ↗

— James Coburn

#actor #although #animation #anyway #been

I think in national security, the war in Iraq is troublesome and a difficult challenge, but our troops and the military leaders we have are managing that situation, although it continues to be very risky and very dangerous. ↗

— Thad Cochran

#challenge #continues #dangerous #difficult #i

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#coin #fashioned #governments #may #nations

Getting straight with your money is as complicated as a trip to the grocery store: You need a comparison shop, add and subtract, stick with a plan, and ask questions- nothing more. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#money-happiness #money-issues #money-management #money-tools #money

Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world. ↗

— Thomas Cochrane

#community #family #future #into #loyalty

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#gets #normal #trouble #worse

A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig. ↗

— Claud Cockburn

#compelled #continuous #duplicity #even #grow