#trained

Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#argued #began #constrained #democratic #drunk

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance. ↗

— Kate Smith

#first #i #make #most #second

What...?" He began as he approached her before noticing the gate was open. He took command and wished he was in uniform with his star and weapon, but at the moment he was only a highly trained civilian, and unarmed. ↗

— Judith-Victoria Douglas

#command #highly-trained #star #unarmed #uniform

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#anyone #artist #call #doodle #down

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#any #cannot #constrained #discipline #form

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do. ↗

— Aaliyah

#dance #i #interpreter #laugh #life

I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I don't know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras. ↗

— June Allyson

#cameras #how #i #know #little

Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#carrying #convince #corps #i #may

I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#another #because #days #did #disappoint

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. ↗

— William Blake

#desires #enough #restrain #restrained #their