#tripped

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#curse #plenty #stripped

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#come #democracy #hypocrisy #idea #imperatives

I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled and we learn something, that makes things exciting - I am having fun with that stuff, but you have to manage it so it doesn't get too cute, that's what I trying to work toward. ↗

— Jim McKay

#assumptions #cute #everyday #everyday life #exciting

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#external #fatiguing #imagination #life #make

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. ↗

— E. B. White

#assume #cat #editorial #first #first amendment

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#block #over #over it #see #stepping-stone

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are. ↗

— Spike Lee

#black #brought #comes #define #down

We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#foundries #heat #please #stripped #waist

Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before. ↗

— Kylie Minogue

#cancer #come #down #end #ever