My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.

At first I thought he had missed.

`` I thought I told you to stay home ''.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

You thought I was a Mexican, didn't you, buddy ''??

Suddenly and not a second too soon I thought of the coins in my pocket.

Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.

I thought I saw a faint surge of color rise to her neck and quickly suffuse her cheeks.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Ramey smiled but he thought to himself, I always see me too.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

But when it happens to you like that, I tell you, and you're a hundred feet from where you thought you were -- well, it makes you think.

But I would never have thought of it myself ''.

That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.

I used his polarity to illustrate what I thought had happened to us in that form of liberalism we call Progressivism.

`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.

It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.

:" To prevent the excessive duration of operas, without however prejudicing the fame often sought by opera singers from the repetition of vocal pieces, I deem the enclosed notice to the public ( that no piece for more than a single voice is to be repeated ) to be the most reasonable expedient.

Barbed tape was first manufactured by Germany during World War I, as an expedient measure during a shortage of wire.

Washington disagreed with Sir Guy ’ s actions and wrote: “… the measure is totally different from the letter and spirit of the Treaty but waiving the specialty of the point, leaving this decision to our respective Sovereigns I find it my duty to signify my readiness in conjunction with you to enter into agreements, or take any measures which may be deemed expedient to prevent the future carrying away any Negroes or other property of the American people .”

My surprise is not to be expressed, when I was shortly after informed from Calcutta, that it had been deemed expedient to employ fifty four lacs of the sum obtained by me in discharging an eight per cent loan, that the remainder was indispensable for current purposes, and it was hoped I should be able to procure from the Nawab Vizier a further aid for the objects of the war.

I must now invent some expedient means that will make it possible for the children to escape harm.

Some strained areas took the children into local schools by adopting the World War I expedient of double shift education — taking twice as long but also doubling the number taught.

When should is used in this way it usually expresses something which would have been expected, or normatively required, at some time in the past, but which did not in fact happen ( or is not known to have happened ): I should have done that yesterday (" it would have been expedient, or expected of me, to do that yesterday ").

The expression had better has similar meaning to should and ought when expressing recommended or expedient behavior: I had better get down to work ( it can also be used to give instructions with the implication of a threat: you had better give me the money or else ).

The essay discusses what is honorable ( Book I ), what is expedient or to one's advantage ( Book II ), and what to do when the honorable and expedient conflict ( Book III ).

`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.

I just can't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together ''

`` I can take care of this.

Now, are you going to take me or am I supposed to walk ''??

I've got to take Danny away from Clayton before I lose him altogether.

I just want you to take a message to Diane Molinari.

She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.

When my Uncle offered me a part-time job which would take care of my normal expenses and give me time to paint I accepted.

Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.

`` I vowed to take care of you -- and that's what I'm gonna do.

I take this to mean that the intelligent -- and therefore necessarily cynical??

I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.

I persuaded an Australian friend who had lived `` outback '' for years to take me to see some aborigines living in the bush.

I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.

When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.

I think you are being unfair to take these things up now.

I take the central meaning here to be the contrast between the drab empty quality of life without literature and a life enriched by it.

What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

but this -- yes, terrible step I am about to take is lightened with an inundating joy by the new-found hope that here, in these poems, is treasure -- or at least some measure of beauty, which I did not know of ''.

Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.