#side

If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#angles #apparently #attention #bird #course

There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides. ↗

— Nick Carter

#choose #father #fighting #into #kids

I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#cannot #change #congress #constitution #i

I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#day #four #i #know #office

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties. ↗

— Dennis Chavez

#curtailment #down #during #era #go

We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#accomplish #been #country #number #president

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#common #composed #considered #families #having

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#because #elected #fantasy #give #i

Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#began #early #first #formed #hand

When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile. ↗

— Charles Frohman

#i #make #managed #me #mere