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It hit me like a ton of bricks. – David Rattray	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They have seen these bricks that are marked with the Mexican cartel's logo. They're very proud of their product. I've been to the border. I've seen what's going on there. They're lacing fentanyl to give the impression that it's an Adderall or it's whatever pill that somebody thinks they're buying on the black market, when in fact, it's a fake pill, and it's laced with fentanyl, we're seeing that in our heroin. Marijuana is being laced with fentanyl to give the smoker a better high. They're really playing … Russian Roulette because they just don't know when they're going to get that fatal dose. – Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Buckle up, a bumpy ride is in the cards, the Wall of Worry has added a few bricks of uncertainty around inflation, monetary policy, Ukraine, masking and pandemic cases. – Louis Navellier	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Experimentation and failing is an important part of learning and innovation. Just as kids build, unbuild and rebuild with LEGO bricks at home, we're doing the same in our lab. – Environmental Responsibility Tim Brooks	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It was a tough character to embody, the Hobbs Shaw character, my approach at the time was a lot of tough love to assist in getting that performance where it needed to be. As a producer to say, Okay, we're going to take Dwayne Johnson, who's associated with wrestling, and we're going to force this cinematic world, audience members, to regard Dwayne Johnson character as someone that they don't know -- Hobbs Shaw hits you like a ton of bricks. – Vin Diesel	Found on CNN 3 years ago
People tell us to leave or they would beat us, sometimes they also throw stones and bricks at us. – Vibha Singh	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We condemned the violence on Jan. 6 and we condemned it last summer. It would’ve been nice if our colleagues on the other side had done the same, last summer when police were being pelted with frozen water bottles, bricks and beat up, where were they? They were raising money to bail out rioters who were doing those very actions to the police.And today we get a lecture about how we haven’t been consistent, you’ve got to be kidding me! – Scott Applewhite	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from Co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind. – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar	added by subodhchakranarayan1 3 years ago
On race day, you look forward to seeing that one driver cross the Yard of Bricks, drink the glass of milk and celebrate, but this May, we'll have about 125 winners getting to celebrate with their diplomas. – Doug Boles	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's something I've never heard of or seen, all of a sudden here, like a ton of bricks. I'm sort of speechless. – William White	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
When Batangas is in recovery, we will bring the bricks there for building schools, community halls and livelihood centers so what we can give back what Taal has given us. – Walfredo Dimaguila	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
What we plan is to turn them into hollow blocks and bricks and sell them to interested companies. – Walfredo Dimaguila	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It was so devastating to see. All the tin is flat to the ground. Some of the bricks are still standing. – Darcy Brown	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. – Plutarch	added by regnumveritatis 5 years ago
You think of what it took to build Monticello – you need people who made bricks, people who laid the bricks, who chopped the wood, converted it into fine trim and woodwork and then installed it, and then there's people who need to plaster the interior walls as well and lay the floors - and slave craftsmen were involved with all of those steps. – Gardiner Hallock	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We won't allow them to come to Yuen Long to cause trouble, even though there are a group of protesters trained to throw bricks and iron bars, we still have a group of Yuen Long residents with the persistence and courage to maintain social peace and protect our home. – Li Jiyi	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion. – William Blake	added by Normando 5 years ago
I saw some roof tiles, bricks and solar water heaters fell from the roofs. There are some cracks in buildings. I did not see any building collapsed. Everyone is outside. – Sahin Agah	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Mercari and companies like it force bricks-and-mortar retailers to focus more on strengthening their brand and offering something unique to distinguish themselves. – Kentaro Arita	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The thing which will close (these reactors) down in the end will be the cost of ensuring safety. It is possible to make a safety case for a significant amount of cracked bricks but it takes time and costs money. – Barry Marsden	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
That was one of the bricks in the load that I needed to step away from the department, that gave me a queasy feeling. – James Comey	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It’s pretty tough, it hits you like a ton of bricks, (I’m) angry, confused, upset. I’d like to get some answers so I know what’s going on. – David Tait Jr.	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
These industrial REITs are caught up in the same paradigm shift that's been a negative for bricks and mortar retailers, but on the other side of it. – Mike Underhill	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They throw stones and bricks at us, at the bodies of the dead, whenever there is a funeral. – Avtar Singh	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

It hit me like a ton of bricks.

– David Rattray

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They have seen these bricks that are marked with the Mexican cartel's logo. They're very proud of their product. I've been to the border. I've seen what's going on there. They're lacing fentanyl to give the impression that it's an Adderall or it's whatever pill that somebody thinks they're buying on the black market, when in fact, it's a fake pill, and it's laced with fentanyl, we're seeing that in our heroin. Marijuana is being laced with fentanyl to give the smoker a better high. They're really playing … Russian Roulette because they just don't know when they're going to get that fatal dose.

– Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Buckle up, a bumpy ride is in the cards, the Wall of Worry has added a few bricks of uncertainty around inflation, monetary policy, Ukraine, masking and pandemic cases.

– Louis Navellier

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Experimentation and failing is an important part of learning and innovation. Just as kids build, unbuild and rebuild with LEGO bricks at home, we're doing the same in our lab.

– Environmental Responsibility Tim Brooks

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It was a tough character to embody, the Hobbs Shaw character, my approach at the time was a lot of tough love to assist in getting that performance where it needed to be. As a producer to say, Okay, we're going to take Dwayne Johnson, who's associated with wrestling, and we're going to force this cinematic world, audience members, to regard Dwayne Johnson character as someone that they don't know -- Hobbs Shaw hits you like a ton of bricks.

– Vin Diesel

Found on CNN
3 years ago

People tell us to leave or they would beat us, sometimes they also throw stones and bricks at us.

– Vibha Singh

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We condemned the violence on Jan. 6 and we condemned it last summer. It would’ve been nice if our colleagues on the other side had done the same, last summer when police were being pelted with frozen water bottles, bricks and beat up, where were they? They were raising money to bail out rioters who were doing those very actions to the police.And today we get a lecture about how we haven’t been consistent, you’ve got to be kidding me!

– Scott Applewhite

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from Co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

– Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

added by subodhchakranarayan1
3 years ago

On race day, you look forward to seeing that one driver cross the Yard of Bricks, drink the glass of milk and celebrate, but this May, we'll have about 125 winners getting to celebrate with their diplomas.

– Doug Boles

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's something I've never heard of or seen, all of a sudden here, like a ton of bricks. I'm sort of speechless.

– William White

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When Batangas is in recovery, we will bring the bricks there for building schools, community halls and livelihood centers so what we can give back what Taal has given us.

– Walfredo Dimaguila

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

What we plan is to turn them into hollow blocks and bricks and sell them to interested companies.

– Walfredo Dimaguila

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It was so devastating to see. All the tin is flat to the ground. Some of the bricks are still standing.

– Darcy Brown

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

– Plutarch

added by regnumveritatis
5 years ago

You think of what it took to build Monticello – you need people who made bricks, people who laid the bricks, who chopped the wood, converted it into fine trim and woodwork and then installed it, and then there's people who need to plaster the interior walls as well and lay the floors - and slave craftsmen were involved with all of those steps.

– Gardiner Hallock

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We won't allow them to come to Yuen Long to cause trouble, even though there are a group of protesters trained to throw bricks and iron bars, we still have a group of Yuen Long residents with the persistence and courage to maintain social peace and protect our home.

– Li Jiyi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion.

– William Blake

added by Normando
5 years ago

I saw some roof tiles, bricks and solar water heaters fell from the roofs. There are some cracks in buildings. I did not see any building collapsed. Everyone is outside.

– Sahin Agah

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Mercari and companies like it force bricks-and-mortar retailers to focus more on strengthening their brand and offering something unique to distinguish themselves.

– Kentaro Arita

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

The thing which will close (these reactors) down in the end will be the cost of ensuring safety. It is possible to make a safety case for a significant amount of cracked bricks but it takes time and costs money.

– Barry Marsden

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

That was one of the bricks in the load that I needed to step away from the department, that gave me a queasy feeling.

– James Comey

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It’s pretty tough, it hits you like a ton of bricks, (I’m) angry, confused, upset. I’d like to get some answers so I know what’s going on.

– David Tait Jr.

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

These industrial REITs are caught up in the same paradigm shift that's been a negative for bricks and mortar retailers, but on the other side of it.

– Mike Underhill

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They throw stones and bricks at us, at the bodies of the dead, whenever there is a funeral.

– Avtar Singh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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