#ended

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#ended #extravagant #out #plain #pure

In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs. ↗

— Dario Fo

#affairs #american #circumstances #current #current state

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#became #experience #i #intended #just

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#believe #endowed #feel #forgo #god

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #america #american #american writer #ancestry

I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone. ↗

— Judge Mills Lane

#before #bench #came #cannot #could

He ended it. He just said he didn't - he - well, what he said was that he didn't feel it was right, and you know, I mean that's - because he ended it, he'd probably have to be the one to answer that. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#because #ended #feel #i #just

Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#appears #because #cannot #card #cards

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#child #hard #hard words #heart #jacket

I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

#daddy #ended #ever #gun #him