#fled

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#brooklyn #hot #i #i was raised #raised

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled. ↗

— William Goldman

#broadway #by the time #failed #fled #had

My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self. ↗

— Henry Laurens

#assurance #believed #bravery #could #current

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. ↗

— Adam Smith

#cases #facts #imagination #those #which

Mormons invented themselves just as other religious and ethnic groups invented themselves. But Mormons did so in such a singularly impressive way that we will probably always remain baffled as to how exactly it happened. ↗

— Laurence Moore

#ethnic-group #how-it-happened #lds #mormon #mormonism

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#career #created #felt #fled #having

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#compliments #insults #leave #prepared #us

We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#also #assisting #attacks #away #been

I've got a really great team around me. They're the ones that are in the restaurants on a day to day basis. Anyone that's good can't be stifled in any way. I don't baby people. ↗

— Todd English

#anyone #around #baby #basis #day

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. ↗

— Robert Browning

#baffled #better #break #clouds #doubted