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I'm generally pro-union, but this walkout was clumsy, it was spiteful. It was absolutely devastating for these children's well-being. Where are they going to eat, some of these families now? I think it's absolutely awful. This is … absolutely cruel what they have done to these children. – Geraldo Rivera	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
My whole world just collapsed, my legs stopped working. My limbs were very clumsy. I was in excruciating pain, screaming the house down. – Carly Jayne Barton	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think it was one of the major contributors to the outcome, propaganda works. Advertising works. It’s a form of propaganda. So the Russians may have started out a little heavy-handed and clumsy about it, but they were clearly getting guided as to where to target a lot of their fraudulent claims and phony news. – Hillary Clinton	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We think that that has not happened. They’ve been much too fast to pick up kids on unfounded allegations based on clumsy things like a basketball jersey that they might be wearing or something they posted on the internet which falls far short of the sort of evidence you want to see before somebody labels you a gang member. – Christopher Dunn	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The worst thing is that this is, at the same time, (a tool of) total control, a clumsy attempt to protect themselves from external threats, and a great opportunity for cyber criminals. – Shavkat Sabirov	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We know that in the application of the death penalty we've had recent cases, by any standard, it has not been swift and painless but rather gruesome and clumsy. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It was a crass and clumsy gesture from an increasingly isolated tin pot despot, a morally deranged authoritarian who was at that very moment clinging desperately onto political power in the face of international sanctions and a rising chorus of international condemnation, after years of negotiation and appeasement, the world has lost its patience now with Mr Putin's judo politics and his cringing hard-man photo opportunities. – Ben Emmerson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's heavy-handed, i think it's clumsy diplomacy. – Peter Goldring	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Was it handled in maybe a clumsy way? Okay, so it was, but look, get beyond that. See, that's our problem, Gloria, we spend too much time either trying to be politically correct, play to the cameras, play to our base. – John Kasich	Found on CNN 9 years ago
If the parties are told if you make this agreement, this report gets shelved forever, then this is an actual incentive, but ... it's all very wishy washy and no one is clear. The way it's been used so far has been rather clumsy. – Casie Copeland	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. – E. M. Forster	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing. – Magha	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. – H. G. Wells, 1903	added by anonymous 13 years ago

I'm generally pro-union, but this walkout was clumsy, it was spiteful. It was absolutely devastating for these children's well-being. Where are they going to eat, some of these families now? I think it's absolutely awful. This is … absolutely cruel what they have done to these children.

– Geraldo Rivera

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My whole world just collapsed, my legs stopped working. My limbs were very clumsy. I was in excruciating pain, screaming the house down.

– Carly Jayne Barton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think it was one of the major contributors to the outcome, propaganda works. Advertising works. It’s a form of propaganda. So the Russians may have started out a little heavy-handed and clumsy about it, but they were clearly getting guided as to where to target a lot of their fraudulent claims and phony news.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We think that that has not happened. They’ve been much too fast to pick up kids on unfounded allegations based on clumsy things like a basketball jersey that they might be wearing or something they posted on the internet which falls far short of the sort of evidence you want to see before somebody labels you a gang member.

– Christopher Dunn

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The worst thing is that this is, at the same time, (a tool of) total control, a clumsy attempt to protect themselves from external threats, and a great opportunity for cyber criminals.

– Shavkat Sabirov

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We know that in the application of the death penalty we've had recent cases, by any standard, it has not been swift and painless but rather gruesome and clumsy.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It was a crass and clumsy gesture from an increasingly isolated tin pot despot, a morally deranged authoritarian who was at that very moment clinging desperately onto political power in the face of international sanctions and a rising chorus of international condemnation, after years of negotiation and appeasement, the world has lost its patience now with Mr Putin's judo politics and his cringing hard-man photo opportunities.

– Ben Emmerson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's heavy-handed, i think it's clumsy diplomacy.

– Peter Goldring

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Was it handled in maybe a clumsy way? Okay, so it was, but look, get beyond that. See, that's our problem, Gloria, we spend too much time either trying to be politically correct, play to the cameras, play to our base.

– John Kasich

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If the parties are told if you make this agreement, this report gets shelved forever, then this is an actual incentive, but ... it's all very wishy washy and no one is clear. The way it's been used so far has been rather clumsy.

– Casie Copeland

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

– E. M. Forster

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing.

– Magha

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

– H. G. Wells, 1903

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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