#tractor

Staying with detractors is like sleeping in a room located just behind the public toilet. You will never feel comfortable until you relocate. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#change-your-life #comfortable #detractors #dislike #enemies

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#farmer #kill #lightning #old #old age

If I hadn't become a golfer, I doubt I'd be wealthy, because I don't have the sort of ego that drives a person all day long. I might have wound up driving a tractor. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#because #become #day #doubt #drives

Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#go home #home #i #just #maybe

I used to practice my speeches on my tractor while I plowed my daddy's field. ↗

— Jim Hunt

#field #i #practice #speeches #tractor

The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#architects #beautiful #been #beltway #boom

Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#commodity #contractor #military #military

The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#contractors #draw #failing #filthy #habitually

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#combat #comparison #contractors #else #individuals

At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#contractors #corrections #had #iraqi #july