#wes

But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#good #had #heroes #himself #husbands

What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it. ↗

— Rob Lowe

#care #correctly #done #everybody #gratifying

It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#been #both #central #coasts #containing

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#class #conveying #country #degrees #dialects

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#deserved #i #i always #nobel #prize

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#citizen #civilisation #difficult #europe #evidence

The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge. ↗

— Nigel Mansell

#challenge #going #masters

Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#keep #playing #russia #states #western

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts. ↗

— Patrick McHenry

#been #cuts #generations #lowest #marginal

If you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive. ↗