#pertinent

I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#administration #beliefs #bureaus #congress #distress

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#been #effort #espionage #had #human

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#how #i #i am #impertinent #insolent

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts. ↗

— Shirley Jackson

#autobiographical #bare #chronological #contains #dislike

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity. ↗

— John le Carre

#given #great #i #impertinent #impunity

I tried to steer the student newspaper toward more pertinent information instead of the usual gossip and bull. ↗

— Tom Bergeron

#gossip #i #i tried #information #instead

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#anyone #average #average person #content #deliberately

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#able #actual #comics #comment #decade

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#ask #essence #impertinent #pertinent #question

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them? ↗

— Frank Chodorov

#compelled #did #fight #pertinent #question