#sen

The bill then says if the Senate does not act, then H.R. 1 (the House-passed bill that cuts $61 billion) will be the law of the land. In addition to that, it says that if all else fails, and the Senate brings about a shutdown, then members should not get their pay. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#act #addition #bill #billion #brings

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings. ↗

— Andreas Capellanus

#avarice #consent #could #diamond #earth

With the establishment of a presence in all three counties of Delaware, recruitment in and outside Delaware and throughout the world and new master's and doctoral programs, Delaware State University will continue to grow and attract even more qualified students. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#continue #counties #delaware #delaware state #delaware state university

It is entirely undemocratic to continue these burdens on the people for years and years after the requirements of protection have been met and the representatives of these industries have become incrusted with wealth. ↗

— John Griffin Carlisle

#become #been #burdens #continue #entirely

The Senate is an unknowing world. ↗

— Robert Caro

#world

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness. ↗

— Robert Casey

#awful #common #common good #ever #felt

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#days #get #hundred #know #might

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you? ↗

— James Carville

#sense #some #sustain #then #you

You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something. ↗

— Jason Clarke

#because #foreign #french #french women #good

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change. ↗

— Colley Cibber

#after #assume #cease #change #death