#managed

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

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#been #exactly #fringes #function #i

There are a lot of people in Milwaukee who have had adverse impacts from Scott Walker. He's managed to mess over everyone in Milwaukee. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#everyone #had #impacts #lot #managed

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#feared #had #just #languages #manage

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#accident #american #american people #country #each

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#extraordinary #managed #produce #situations #terrible

I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#baghdad #dad #difficult #direction #every

For some reason, it popped into my head the notion that a lot of the Next Generation cast in the long run of that show managed to step behind the camera. ↗

— Michael Shanks

#camera #cast #generation #head #into

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#appreciation #audience #back #comprehend #could