#dropping

On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those intercepts being purely domestic, the New York Times reported. ↗

— Margaret Carlson

#being #bush #domestic #eavesdropping #his

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening. And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti-English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV. ↗

— Peter Hitchens

#americans #anti-british-sentiment #braveheart #britons #eavesdropping

Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop. ↗

— Tom Waits

#eavesdrop #eavesdropping #good #how #know

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. ↗

— George Wald

#atomic bombs #bombs #crime #dropping #hiroshima

If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album. ↗

— Lil Wayne

#best #dropping #i #rap #then

I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#dropping #get #help #i #into

A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane. "Dumbledore would totally win," said the first one. "He has the badass Killing Curse." The second lycanthrope made a trenchant point. "But Dumbledore isn't real." "I don't think Magnus Bane is real either," scoffed the first. "Have you ever met him?" "This is so weird," said Clary, slinking down in her seat. "Are you listening to them?" "No. It's rude to eavesdrop," said Jace. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#eavesdropping #fight #magnus-bane #city

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#control #crow #dropping #golden #important

We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges. ↗

— Barney Ross

#day #depth #dropping #exit #get

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. ↗

— Lucretius

#dropping #fall #stone #water #wears