#thrived

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software. ↗

— Bill Gates

#during #first #great #had #here

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform. ↗

— Earl Browder

#champions #communists #domestic #had #reform

In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#ages #beyond #christianity #conversion #court

Sometimes, war being the unjust and drastic creature it is, those in whom he invested hopes took an arrow in the chest, the useless, by chance, thrived to irritate him another day. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#death #drastic #hopes #paul-hoffman #sometimes

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years. ↗

— Russell Baker

#been #canned #comedy #dead #grafted

I've always thrived on the encouragement of others. ↗

— Patti Smith

#encouragement #i #others #thrived

I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived. ↗

— Gennifer Flowers

#i #i feel #i feel like #life #like