#ted

The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#does #interesting #junction #know #last

The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. ↗

— David Davis

#classes #constitution #covers #equally #law

To see and be acquainted with strangers, in especial with men in honour and authority. ↗

— Thomas Cavendish

#authority #honour #men #see #strangers

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see. ↗

— Dick Cavett

#administration #come #cops #eye #just

Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#communism #feeds #hatred #imprisonment #men

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#george #george w #governor #had #i

I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#almost #bluegrass #comedy #different #different styles

I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her the songs and poems I had written, knowing that too much truth can ruin a thing. And if that meant she wasn't entirely mine, what of it? I would be the one she could always return to without fear of recrimination or question. So I did not try to win her and contented myself with playing a beautiful game. But there was always a part of me that hoped for more, and so there was a part of me that was always a fool. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#beauty

My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#any #enemy #even #executed #fire

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. ↗

— Neville Chamberlain

#big #british #british empire #cannot #circumstances