#mug

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.' ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#conservative #enough #former #liberal #mugged

I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#beard #being #clothes #danger #grow

And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.' ↗

— John McCain

#environment #government #human #live #part

On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't he said, 'Do you mind if I mug you here?'. ↗

— Paul Merton

#central #central park #day #first #guy

Drug smugglers often use juveniles to carry their shipments into the U.S. because they know the juveniles will not be prosecuted if caught. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#carry #caught #into #know #often

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#been #bull #cow #feeding #industry

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile. ↗

— Paul Reiser

#familiar #his #history #long #minute

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier? ↗

— John Steinbeck

#approaching #barrier #customs #feel #guilt

When did having a life become an event you had to schedule? ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#ginger #highlander #jessi #karen-marie-moning #life

It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers. ↗

— John Walters

#become #borders #creating #dangerous #difficult