#gum

I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them. ↗

— Emo Philips

#bar #get #gum #i #lucky

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#against #argument #charity #christ #crime

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#action figure #argument #batman #figure #give

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. ↗

— Colin Powell

#always #argument #cut #debate #doubt

Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it. ↗

— David Pratt

#argument #around #continuing #part #problem

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#fight #human #human rights #need #references

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#acceptable #argument #doctrinaire #foolish #idea

If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#argument #bed #career #child #child actors

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument. ↗

— Will Rogers

#changed #minds #observation #people #through

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark. ↗

— Elihu Root

#assemblage #common #common faith #convincing #exhortation