#remained

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#ages #been #boards #confidant #enough

We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889. ↗

— Calamity Jane

#home life #leading #life #quiet #remained

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#any #conversation #hard #i #initiate

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#ascendancy #came #completely #complexion #end

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#any #care #closet #clothes #existence

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#i #lousy #out #remained #started

I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child. ↗

— Dick Francis

#been #child #come #extent #i

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. ↗

— Emil Ludwig

#always #another #attracted #because #close

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#american people #deep #deep desire #desire #peace

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#does #know #man #often #only