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  • There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.

    Groups   Reform   World  
    Interview with Brien Williams, digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu. May 4, 2010.
  • Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

    Ideas   Meditation   Mind  
    Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.16, University of Toronto Press
  • There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

    Witty   Littles   Tongue  
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Complete in One Volume”, p.163
  • I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it.

  • The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

    Love   Anger   Flames  
    Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, p.66, Delphi Classics
  • With a click of the Post Comment button, Netizens can quickly bring down the level of dialogue. Bloggers lob zingers, commenters trade barbs, and bullies target kids in the cyber schoolyard. Mudslinging - a time-honored political tradition - thrives on the Web.

    Kids   Bully   Political  
  • Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.

  • There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

    Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.26, Courier Corporation
  • The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

    Should   Fishes   Barbs  
  • If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it.

    Self   Scary   Wire  
  • How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?

    Wish   Lessons   May  
  • Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.

    Heart   Long   Childhood  
    Soren Kierkegaard's journal entry, 1847.
  • We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.

    Men   Jewels   Wire  
    D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.29, Cambridge University Press
  • There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

    Charles Baudelaire (1951). “My heart laid bare, and other prose writings”
  • Christians must deplore unfair and deprecating barbs regularly aimed our way.

  • He who would lay hands upon us will encounter thorns and barbs!

    Source: nseuropa.wordpress.com
  • Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.

    Wire   Fence   Barbs  
  • Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can injure yourself, volatile energies that serve as separations between yourself and perfect stillness.

    Hate   Buddhism   Reality  
  • No touching Baby Jesus.” “But we’re his parents!” proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation. “Mary Beth,” Barb Wiggin said, “if you touch the Baby Jesus, I’m putting you in a cow costume.

    Baby   Jesus   Parent  
    John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co
  • No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune. . . . There is a liberating law in the universe, and you can become the highest of the high, wisest of the wise.

    Wise   Fate   Law  
  • When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a poem, or a film that bypasses the brain and aims straight for the heart . . . should automatically be heaped with scorn. I think it is symptomatic of a sad and dangerous impoverishment of spirit.

    Heart   Thinking   Brain  
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