#poke

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.' ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#army #asked #bidding #cheney #competitive

I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president. I am stunned and I'm horrified. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#am #ever #hateful #horrified #i

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. ↗

— Barack Obama

#came #christ #christian #christian faith #church

Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player. ↗

— Tim Page

#against #being #biggest #challenge #exciting

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. ↗

— George Dennison Prentice

#easily #kindness #lost #pearls #sayings

You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind. ↗

— Herbert Prochnow

#go #kind #life #lost #may

I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#awareness #direct #find #hope #i

Everyone I have spoken with so far recognises the need for the IRA to respond positively and every has said sooner is better than later and I think there is some concern if it does continue to delay much longer that the situation isn't going to remain the same. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

#concern #continue #delay #does #every

It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#charming #commercial #film #fun #funny

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#first #i #independent #kind #relation