#were

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#down #facts #kind #loose #more

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#answered #best #creeds #dark #fears

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful. ↗

— William Feather

#grateful #many #now #our #prayers

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers. ↗

— William Feather

#could #doing #followed #grandfathers #known

Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents. ↗

— Roger Federer

#before #case #completely #dad #dependent

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked. ↗

— Michael Caine

#blond #blond hair #boy #cool #created

My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about racing. I never thought for a moment about doing anything else. There was no guarantee that I'd make a career in it but I never had any plan B. ↗

— Jenson Button

#always #any #anything #appalling #because

The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#american men #been #before #bulwark #communities

By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line. ↗

— John Byng

#enemy #engage #form #going #great

Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large. ↗

— John Byng

#appeared #before #could #distinguish #enemy