#promptly

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#around #board #came #england #escape

If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#coming #deceiving #either #fathers #himself

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#cannot #continually #ere #find #how

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#especially #found #harm #out #promptly

Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#american lives #billion #came #caused #claimed

I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg. ↗

— Tre Cool

#fire #i #just #leg #out

The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled. ↗

— Arthur Goldberg

#compelling #constitution #fulfilled #guarantees #here

Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither. ↗

— Jack Reed

#administration #committed #doing #fund #having

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#advises #another #any #before #contradict

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! ↗

— Winston Churchill

#away #back #danger #double #flinching