#ran

I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#after #been #changes #court #did

So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change. ↗

— Robert Bridges

#beside #change #could #first #kissed

You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#pinch #rope #stranger #you

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience. ↗

— Jayne Meadows

#deaf #dog #grandmother #i #mother

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#became #before #died #extinct #father

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#difficulty #fascination #learning #materials #medium

I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#another #australia #britain #california #connects

Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#enough #granted #large #large enough #manage

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence. ↗

— Robert Millikan

#conducive #depths #fullness #humility #ignorance

Give me liberty or a bran muffin! ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#give #give me #give me liberty #liberty #me