`` We had to do something ''.

We haven't had anything to eat all day ''.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

We had been walking quite briskly, for despite your being so small and me so tall, your stride in those days could easily match mine.

We had stopped before a shop window to assess its autumnal display, when you suddenly turned to me, looking up from beneath one of your wrong hats, and with your nervous `` ahem ''!!

We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary.

We found that a charitable society in New York had a long case-history of the two ; ;

He said, `` We had a good time tonight, didn't we, Earl ''??

We had walked it many times and shivered, figuring what a fish barrel it had been for the French.

We had assumed that at least this local legislative body had nothing to hide, and, therefore, had no objections to making the deliberations of its committees and the city commissions available to the public.

We had a couple of schools in this country, the principal one being on the Marshall Field estate out in Lloyd's Neck.

`` We just sit quiet and wait '', Prevot had said.

We came down off the wall as if he had toppled all of us, and we crouched behind it.

We both had hangovers.

We still had that much in common.

`` We found some owls had built a nest in the chimney, milord, but I promise you you'll never have trouble of that sort again ''.

We also continued to run a series of ads featuring endorsement of Rhode Island by industrialists who had recently established new plants here.

We have had sound grounding in the principles of the mailed-fist-in-velvet-glove school of diplomacy.

We had merely been discovered by the pool sharks.

We unanimously agreed that Prokofieff had won his rights as a world citizen to the first ranks of Twentieth-Century Composers.

We have seen good new products shelved because no one had the assignment to develop such facts and plans -- and management couldn't make up its mind.

We pulled and swore and yanked and wept, scraping our hands until they bled profusely.

`` We the people of the Confederate States, each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity -- invoking the favor and the guidance of Almighty God -- do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America ''.

We, in our country, think of war as an external threat which, if it occurs, will not be primarily of our own doing.

We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.

We are forced, in our behavior towards others, to adopt empirically successful patterns in toto because we have such a minimal understanding of their essential elements.

We use terms from our personal experience with individuals such as `` trust '', `` cheat '', and `` get tough ''.

We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they were latched, rest our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before our eyes.

A Yale historian, writing a few years ago in The Yale Review, said: `` We in New England have long since segregated our children ''.

We hear equally fervent concern over the belief that we have not enough generalists who can see the over-all picture and combine our national skills and knowledge for useful purposes.

We must believe we have the ability to affect our own destinies: otherwise why try anything??

We are tempted to blame others for our problems rather than look them straight in the face and realize they are of our own making and possible of solution only by ourselves with the help of desperately needed, enlightened, competent leaders.

We are reminded, however, that freedom of thought and discussion, the unfettered exchange of ideas, is basic under our form of government.

We experience a vague uneasiness about events, a suspicion that our political and economic institutions, like the genie in the bottle, have escaped confinement and that we have lost the power to recall them.

We and our friends are, of course, concerned with self-defense.

We did our job, Mr. Stavropoulos and Mr. De Seynes and myself, taking evidence from a number of people ''.

We went out of the office and down the hall to a window where documents and more officials awaited us, the rest of the office personnel hot upon our heels.

We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.

We met some charming Athenians, and among them our chauffeur Panyotis ranked high.

We can be virtuous only if we control our lower natures, the passions in this case, and strengthen our rational side ; ;

We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.