#carrie

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#always #argument #better #brick #carries

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#again #against #businessman #carried #citizens

If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis. ↗

— Eric Liu

#barack #barack obama #call #carried #certainly

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. ↗

— James Madison

#ascertained #cannot #carried #education #expense

When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far. ↗

— Diego Maradona

#carried #confidence #far #get #go

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences. ↗

— Joe Wilson

#clearly #disaster #false #iraq #out

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat. ↗

— Harold Wilson

#i #optimist #who

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#carried #charge #come #covering #electric

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability. ↗

— Teri Hatcher

#carries #fear #i #layers #these

The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement. ↗

— Victor Francis Hess

#capable #carried #enables #energy #extension