#sk

You have to take risks. ↗

— Perry Farrell

#take #you

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#answers #asking #author #composer #expecting

For some reason, it never crossed any mind in this administration to ask for the money back. ↗

— Peter Schuyler

#any #ask #back #crossed #mind

Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the respectable Beltway variety and he will twist himself into a pretzel denying it. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#answer #any #ask #beltway #both

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. ↗

— Robert Frost

#back #bank #begins #fair #lend

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#big #black #called #god #guy

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war. ↗

— King George V

#come #desolation #earth #i #many

Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied. ↗

— Martin Short

#ever #i #me #once #question

At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that? ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#ask #going #good #lousy #ourselves

I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, 'Do you miss the fourth grade?' I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again. ↗

— Grace Slick

#again #anything #asking #did #fourth