#rolled

A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today. ↗

— Giuliana Rancic

#call #even #family #followed #forever

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#controlled #deal #equipment #experiments #failures

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#continuing #controlled #defeat #face #humanity

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier. ↗

— Theodore White

#bus #chorus #composition #felt #flew

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#allows #also #chance #changes #constantly

During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab. ↗

— Umberto Guidoni

#controlled #during #fully #lab #power

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#communist #conservative #controlled #criteria #democrat

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do. ↗

— Heraclitus

#boredom #control #controlled #only #over

It wasn't so much of a controlled effort to end up as part of the Goth scene. ↗

— Kenny Hickey

#effort #end #goth #much #part

Quality has to be caused, not controlled. ↗

— Phil Crosby

#controlled #quality