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If they're pretty far back from Trump and they can't get southern conservative evangelicals in South Carolina, I do think they're probably going to have a hard time elsewhere, i sense a real fear from people that if Trump blows everybody out of the water in South Carolina, that he is suddenly unstoppable.

– Erick Erickson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There is a very high probability of protracted litigation, it's a bit like a race or some kind of competition - people are waiting to jump in when the whistle blows.

– Ted Hampton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It just blows my mind when I see the President of the United States say that the answer to circumstances like this is more gun control.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It just blows my mind when I see that the president of the United States [ says ] that the answer to circumstances like United States is more gun control.

– Jerry Falwell Sr.

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think the credibility of sport has taken some fairly serious body blows in the last few months, with FIFA and its particular forms of corruption and now the IAAF, and these are two of the most important sports in the world.

– Dick Pound

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I was literally that party girl that you hear about, when their life blows up and and they’re like, ‘Oh, I’m going out! Watch me,' life is crazy. My life basically blew up in my face, and now I’m, like, in this new life, and it’s pretty awesome, I have to say.

– Gwen Stefani

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Marco Rubio hopes to distinguish Marco Rubio in the Donald Trump wars that have ensnared some Republicans by punching and pivoting — strike clean, precision blows and then immediately pivot back to Marco Rubio agenda and Marco Rubio view of what the race should be about. He does n’t play Trump’s game the way many of the candidates have.

– Rick Wilson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It was a requirement to go and see him, unfortunately... the government has never given us anything besides psychological blows.

– Cesar Gonzalez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Given the blows the UK government are raining down onto the renewable energy sector on both consents and subsidies, ministers will be heading to the Paris climate discussions with their credibility in tatters.

– David Clubb

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It blows my mind that we do all this policymaking and planning based on guesstimates and extrapolations and interpolations behind the guise of empiricism.

– Elizabeth Stuart

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is no data on the value of data, it blows my mind that we do all this policymaking and planning based on guesstimates and extrapolations and interpolations behind the guise of empiricism.

– Elizabeth Stuart

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In 1973, as a young teacher in Vermont, I nearly came to blows with a table of early academic feminists in Albany when I casually alluded to a hormonal element in sex differences, hormones, in their view, played no role whatever in human life.

– Camille Paglia

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Whenever people talk about how cocky and arrogant I am, it blows me away, because I worked so hard to develop self-confidence.

– Ronda Rousey

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think it kind of blows their mind a little bit that I'm a combat veteran of the 1st Cavalry Division and now they are seeing me on stage at their school, they are surprised that I have a job that makes me look like a normal person, (yet) associated with something that makes them think I'm not normal.

– Army Sgt. Corrin Campbell

Found on CNN
9 years ago

In boxing, you have to keep your hands up in front of your face and upper torso to defend the blows, or hold them out in a defensive position, and all of that dramatically affects the rotator cuff tendons, it’s his punching shoulder, not his jab shoulder, but either one you have to be able to hit with both, which means you have to be able to extend it out there.

– David Teuscher

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I think both he and his trainer, and the public, saw that he had altered his fighting style, and when you are in pain, you will change how you use that arm and that shoulder, in boxing, you have to keep your hands up in front of your face and upper torso to defend the blows, or hold them out in a defensive position, and all of that dramatically affects the rotator cuff tendons.

– David Teuscher

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

When chasing a fleeing suspect, in high stress, you have to control that, the justification for using force is to gain compliance from the suspect, and the suspect seems to be complying. So what this looks like is those blows are not justified, they're not necessary and they're not professional.

– Ken Cooper

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There’s the part in the back of your mind that’s ‘What if?’ it’s not like I didn’t take a lot of sub-concussion blows that can also cause damage long-term so it’s in the back of my head.

– Forrest Petz

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It’s not like I didn’t take a lot of sub-concussion blows that can also cause damage long-term so it’s in the back of my head.

– Forrest Petz

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

When I see them perform, it just blows me away, they're amazing even when they don't perform. But performing shows other people -- and it also shows them -- that they're amazing.

– Arthur Bloom

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.

– George Herbert

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9 years ago

“Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency of one culture overlays another, and another, to form the daguerreotype of possibilities that is homo sapiens, interacting, almost like the elements themselves, with the created world and modified only by context and its imperatives.”-- from Circles and Arcs

– Rosy Cole

added by anonymous
9 years ago

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

– Norman Mailer

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10 years ago

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

– Lucretius

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10 years ago

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