#been

Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal. ↗

— Cornel West

#betrayal #disappointment #focus #just #kind

One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#been #circles #david #declined #domestic

It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant. ↗

— Samuel West

#away #become #been #circus #else

The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#both #doors #every #exist #farm

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#alleged #avoided #been #ceased #having

Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#any #been #book #different #different way

I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture. ↗

— Lisa Whelchel

#always #been #best #book #eight

I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season. ↗

— Dan Wheldon

#back #been #bit #bored #car

You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don't have to leave your chair. Everything's been designed so that you never leave your computer chair. ↗

— Deryck Whibley

#been #chair #computer #designed #even

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19. ↗

— E. B. White

#about #age #because #been #i