#were

The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#classes #composed #first #freemen #independent

At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting. ↗

— Kato Kaelin

#again #began #dating #divorce #fighting

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#dancers #growing #growing up #i #musicians

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#been #benefactor #confidence #death #die

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#although #been #being #charge #claim

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#else #haven #lived #living #moment

I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#age #bob #born #certainly #costumes

In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#coming #comparison #early #feminists #industrialized

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#attendant #clubs #dozen #enemy #energetic

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#aspects #conducting #conductors #grasp #i