The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November.
Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air.
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
He listens well who takes notes.
I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.
You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
Indeed, 'The Second Plane' is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis should stick to writing fiction and literary criticism, as he's thoroughly discredited himself with these essays as any sort of political or social commentator.
History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the battlefield.
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
Drake's my little brother; I love him to death, and he's family-oriented.
I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against this little guy, and how is he going to defeat them?
My dad is my dad, but he's not there physically anymore. But she lets me call her 'Dad' - that's the last little piece of Dad I've got.
When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence.
Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet.
Now, in this U.N. stuff, the commander, although he has troops, they don't really belong to him. They're loaned by the country to the U.N. to be used, but each of these countries provide a contingent commander, a senior guy who communicates directly back to his capital.
That Obama creature - loathsome individual - he couldn't stand our country.
The current FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, is highly regarded, but some distrust him because he is the former head lobbyist of both the cable and wireless phone industries. He's also made some statements suggesting he doesn't understand or opposes network neutrality.
The United States should propose partition in Syria. Assad can keep what he controls, and the rebels can form local governments and establish a new entity.
If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.
I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.
