#marshal

If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall. ↗

— William Rehnquist

#could #court #individual #institution #john

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#act #authorization #barriers #breaking #congress

So many people never pause long enough to make up their minds about basic issues of life and death. It's quite possible to go through your whole life, making the mechanical motions of living, adopting as your own sets of ideas you've come to any conslusion for yourself as to what life is all about. ↗

— Catherine Marshall

#catherine-marshall #christy #christy-huddleston #death

Don't imagine it would be the usual kind of marriage." He seemed to withdraw even more. "It needn't even be consummated. Any woman I liked we'll enough to marry doesn't deserve to be saddled to me. If we marry, it will be a quiet wedding by special license in a back room. At the end, we'll go our separate ways--you, to your farm, and me..." He looked around the small room at the messy piles of paper. "I'm not offering to make a life with you. I'm merely giving you the chance to make your child legitimate. Nothing more." He watched her, his eyes hooded and wary. And deep inside... She had no notion as to what to say. She let out a long breath. "Oh, you are romantic. ↗

— Courtney Milan

#serena-burton #imagination

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack. ↗

— Jack Adams

#called #early #eve #force #gilbert

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale. ↗

— Jack Adams

#attacked #attacks #effect #enterprise #gilbert

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#fort #fortitude #marshal #reason #thought

It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#amp #basement #did #enjoy #ever

We need to avoid the caretaker," I said. "Good thinking. Overalls and the smell of bleach don't really do it for me." "Remind me to douse some overalls in bleach and wear them the next time I see you." "Planning out next date already? Steady. I want to take this slowly. ↗

— C. Gray

#marshall #my-heart-be-damned #dating

If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#get #going #home #i #lot