#nat

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me. ↗

— William Weld

#come #everything #helms #i #jesse

One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality. ↗

— Allen West

#also #because #care #confront #criminality

We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.' ↗

— Allen West

#armed forces #each #ensure #every #exist

I have an unfortunate personality. ↗

— Orson Welles

#personality #unfortunate

The doctor from the mainland came and went. Silence settled over the island again, like a displaced curtain falling back in thickened, heavier folds. For there was a different quality in the silence now. It had tasted something, rich food on which it had long been thinly rationed. Shadowy things were trooping up, called by that scent of blood, like flies that smell carrion. They were not strangers to the old house; they had been ill-fed and at a distance, now they were hungry and avid and near. ↗

— Evangeline Walton

#ghost #horro #supernatural #food

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. ↗

— Orson Welles

#artist #being #hate #his #i

Habit is ten times nature. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#nature #ten #times

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature. ↗

— Morris West

#any #corruption #failure #failures #follies

I have a chip on my shoulder. It's a nacho, not a sense of bitterness.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bitter #chips #food #funny #humor

I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there. ↗

— Lynn Westmoreland

#civil #defense #downer #fema #firefighters