#mended

I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong. ↗

— Karen McCarthy

#committee #did #i #know #nothing

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress. ↗

— Elizabeth Montagu

#content #easy #endeavor #glad #i

The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth. ↗

— Virginia Satir

#day #eight #four #growth #hugs

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve. ↗

— Clara Barton

#ball #between #body #chest #cutting

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. ↗

— Hugo Black

#clearly #commended #condemnation #courageous #deserving

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#commended #diseases #efficient #electric #electric light

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#been #business #i #inferior #lead

A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than recommended by his military commanders. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#commanders #congress #debt #deeper #economy

Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#american #approaches #boone #bringing #commended

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers. ↗

— David Kay

#aggressive #ambitious #chose #course #disagreed