#were

I've been working in Haiti 28 years - I thought I'd sort of seen it... I've gone through a number of coups, the storms of 2008, I thought, you know, that I'd seen things as bad as they were going to get, and I was wrong. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#been #coups #get #going #gone

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

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#good #i #intentions #out #sorry

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

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#atomic #burned #centre #except #explosion

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#dealings #demands #france #his #minh

Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#bomb #burned #dead #even #generated

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