#were

The Americans were never interested in what was best for the Shiites. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#interested #never #were

The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#iraqi people #just #people #saddam #still

To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#everyone #exactly #grade #great #great thing

25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene. ↗

— Bob Saget

#audience #basically #comedy #control #crowd

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten". ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#beaten #chief #does #i #man

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#american #american culture #baskets #beads #contemporary

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#both #digital #empowered #painterly #painters

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#begun #chaucer #circumstances #early #exercise

Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27. ↗

— Alberto Salazar

#broke #city #down #dropped #marathon

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#happiness #happy #here #i #i love