I used to tolerate repeated shots of inconsideration except in cases of malice. Then it occurred to me that bullets pierce skin whether fired carelessly or intentionally.
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Related We are not going to let the shots that were fired today pierce the heart of this community, ... We w... DIANNE JACOB The rule said 'He must intentionally use his helmet to spear,' and we felt like it's hard to find an... BOBBY GASTON It is unclear whether the mutation occurred in the person or whether it occurred in the chicken. DR. ANTHONY FAUCI No disrespect or malice was intended by any of these comments, and we sincerely apologize for any mi... MIKE ADKINS I have a policy about that word "soul." It is strictly prohibited except in cases of converstations ... SARAH VOWELL It obviously troubles both the police commissioner and me that 41 shots were fired. RUDY GIULIANI Our assent to the hypothesis implies that it is held to be true of all particular instances. That th... WILLIAM WHEWELL I am usually able to tolerate all kinds of victims of indoctrination except those who have been infe... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Clearly Greenspan's luster has dimmed, and there's this worry that he's fired a lot of bullets and t... CARY LEAHEY It's unfortunate that people make more out of something than what it is. I don't know whether people... JOSEPH NARKIEWICZ I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhoo... THORNTON WILDER Pieces of me, I'm giving to you.
In the words that I say and the things that I do. SHELLI THOMPSON He should be fired. When someone makes comments like that, that are so obviously racially prejudiced... WESLEY CLARK But it never really occurred to me to ask myself whether this was what I wanted too, J.P. DELANEY I'm not convinced rape actually occurred. When you take in all the elements of rape, which is one's ... CLYDE BENNETT I was used to a life of escaping bullets and taking care of myself. ALEPHONSION DENG To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For the risk group to drop, we have to say that no new cases or no new exports have occurred three w... JULIE HALL That led to several shots being fired directly at the vehicle in an effort to disable it. MAJ. SCOTT LUNDY I learned then that I could not tolerate any kind of bigotry or hatred, absolutely none, VIVIEN SPITZ I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emoti... SAMUEL FULLER Sins of ignorance or infirmity are to be admonished in a different way than intentional sins of mali... THOMAS C. ODEN I don't tolerate anything that runs slowly. Whether it be a phone, tablet or computer, it has to... JOE TROHMAN Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally. BARRY O'FARRELL ... he had learned from repeated error not to ignore these quiet proddings, whether of conscience or... JULIE KLASSEN We don't want to have officers chasing false alarms of shots fired in our counties, DOUGLAS DUNCAN I chased him in the woods for over an hour. He fired several shots, none of which ever hit me. We di... BOB AHRING To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD When they arrived he fired several shots at them, and he did strike one of those officers in the leg... CARRIE RODGERS All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or misse... GAVRILO PRINCIP I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brot... ANNA NEAGLE During my tenure, I discovered four of the missing and murdered cases occurred here in DeKalb County... LOUIS GRAHAM They fired a number of shots and one hit me. I received a shotgun blast to the leg, to the knee. The... MAKAI HALL I want to say that I have never intentionally used any banned substances. It is a huge and horrible ... OLGA PYLEVA Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice: Then must you speak of one tha... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wif... WENDY MASS It's not about worthiness, it's about willingness. R. ALAN WOODS Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. ROBERT J. HANLON Our agents then began to pick up the bundles and that's when they heard shots being fired at them. T... LU MAHEDA Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD You must step forward, Arutha. You will never be the man for whom you were named, and you will never... RAYMOND E. FEIST When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting. SAM NEILL It seems only yesterday I used to believethere was nothing under my skin but light.If you cut me, I ... WILLIAM COLLINS The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI I was just letting the shots fly. You know, I don't leave any bullets in the chamber. KOBE BRYANT In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's di... MATT TAIBBI And I fired four more times at a lifeless body and the bullets sank in without leaving a mark. And i... ALBERT CAMUS The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility JOSEPH CONRAD We will soon learn whether the Greenspan era has created a deep reservoir of faith in the Federal Re... ALAN BLINDER Pierce thrives in those situations. He looks forward to his team being down so he can take the big s... MAURICE CHEEKS I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some poin... STEVE-O People used to name me the Brazilian Pistorius. Thank God I'm not the Brazilian Pistorius any mo... ALAN OLIVEIRA It sets a precedent, that Wal-Mart will not be permitted to violate the laws of California the way t... FRED FURTH When I was, like, 5 years old, I used to pray to have light skin because I would always hear how pre... KEKE PALMER I was trying to tell Robert to assist me in pacing, but Robert refused. BENJAMIN MAIYO I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle. LARRY BIRD I will not tolerate any human rights abuses by any member of the Ministry of Interior forces. Any pe... BAQIR JABBUR The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literatur... RACHEL CARSON I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was aca... CARLISLE FLOYD 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel... JAMES C. DOBSON I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES I told him like I told everyone on national television that I didn't intentionally hit him but it wa... RYAN NEWMAN In the cases that come before the Department of Justice involving a wide range of unlawful activitie... ROBERT KENNEDY It had never occurred to me that my colour - or lack of it - was an issue for some people, but then ... SHARI SEBBENS It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are t... YANN MARTEL There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why the... MARGARET ATWOOD To me, this kind of malfeasance or nonfeasance is precisely what the public cannot tolerate. JACKIE SPEIER I have the impression that someone wanted to hurt me intentionally. KAROL BECK We're still in the ditch, and the Gennifer Flowers story about Bill Clinton says it all. A tablo... RICHARD BEN CRAMER should be removed or disciplined, or whether members of his staff should be disciplined for repeated... JOHN CONYERS These repeated forgeries and falsifications create a well-founded suspicion that all the cases spoke... THOMAS PAINE Hands are always conspicuous, and if used carelessly, they'll always detract, never be a plus to the... LORETTA YOUNG Şi, vorbind mai general, oricare ţi-ar fi linia în viaţă, dacă constaţi că alţii nu-ţi pre... BERTRAND RUSSELL, ÎN CăUTAREA FERICIRII To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS It is not something I earned or acquired or bought. It is a gift. It is something that was given to ... BOB GIBSON It occurred to me that I have spent almost every working day of the past ten years living in a state... CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR It used to be that one poet in each generation performed poems in public. In the twenties, it was Va... DONALD HALL Mark's put in a lot of work this year - whether it's in the weight room or putting in shots. Me and ... JOE HARDEN Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some peo... ROBERT GREENE If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try ... THOMAS JEFFERSON It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation. MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in w... PATRICK DEWITT
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