#rushed

When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings. ↗

— Rita Dove

#being #brushed #something #touched #wings

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#butterfly #did #dust #his #know

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#deceived #fortune #good #good fortune #ill

Congressman Berg will repeatedly talk about Harry Reid and Barack Obama, and I find it interesting, because this morning, when I woke up and brushed my teeth, I looked in the mirror and I did not see a tall, African-American, skinny man. So let's make it clear that my priorities are North Dakota priorities. ↗

— Heidi Heitkamp

#african-american #barack #barack obama #because #berg

How can it be wrong? Love picks the right path, not the one of least resistance. ↗

— Debra Anastasia

#bittersweet-seraphim #crushed-seraphim #debra-anastasia #jack #love

In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#brow #day #decline #hill #indians

... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#crushed-spirit #gloom #house-of-the-seven-gables #low #men

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it. ↗

— Murray Rothbard

#crushed #defeated #expands #glories #state

Sometimes I get so wrought up being brushed, poked and pinned all day. ↗

— Carol Alt

#being #brushed #day #get #i

I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle. ↗

— Judy Davis

#because #becomes #brushed #curly #first