#sands

I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#commitments #fight #government #group #groups

We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope. ↗

— Barack Obama

#casualty #escalation #libya #limited #operation

I buy thousands of books a year. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

#buy #i #thousands #year

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable. ↗

— Barry Pepper

#could #crawl #dead #exhausted #lay

No, sir, I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell. ↗

— Rosser Reeves

#charming #copy #i #just #saying

When you're out there with thousands of people it's probably better to have a bigger show to look at, and it turned out really well and they videoed it for me. ↗

— Cliff Richard

#bigger #look #me #out #people

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall. ↗

— Elihu Root

#gone #how #knows #made #many

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision. ↗

— George Saunders

#being #decisions #during #intention #least

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable? ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#get married #i #i can #make #man

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization. ↗

— Tony Snow

#annihilate #anymore #blindness #civilization #death