#longed

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#against #belonged #chance #circle #circles

So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil. ↗

— Walter Salles

#i #longed #very #young

He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson. ↗

— Doc Severinsen

#carson #johnny #johnny carson #know #owned

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#belonged #invincible #invisible #known #peace

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#attention #mental #nothing #period #prolonged

My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone. ↗

— David Remnick

#almost #been #between #crisis #editor

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#belonged #i #life #simply #theater

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#back #belonged #comparatively #conducted #craft

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#cannot #childhood #hell #prolonged #remain

I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#anywhere #belonged #creature #felt #i