#many

Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse. ↗

— James Longstreet

#bad #battle #being #honest #many

Actually, every time I am back in New York, I read for as many plays as I can. ↗

— Chad Lowe

#am #back #every #every time #i

All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business. ↗

— Nick Lowe

#along #business #chops #comes #germany

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. ↗

— Martin Luther

#hands #held #i #lost #many

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#been #everybody #great #great passions #happens

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#influenced #job #many #particular #person

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#i #interested #less #many #much

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#down #fit #fool #free #freedom

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades. ↗

— Cameron Mackintosh

#exceptional #having #i #know #many

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation. ↗

— Dolley Madison

#am #cabinet #carriage #fill #i