#foothold

It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold. ↗

— David E. Kelley

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We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold. ↗

— John Buford

#back #before #drive #enemy #entered

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own. ↗

— George W. Bush

#build #carry #foothold #forward #gain

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

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Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#any #degradation #fight #foothold #groups

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#care #door #foothold #i #i think

After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#american #american politics #analyst #business #commentator