We were told that to the Pathet Lao, a kidnaped American was worth at least $750, a fortune in Laos.

We are often told that the Comedie has, unfortunately, life-contracts with old actors who are both mediocre and lazy, drawing their pay without much acting but probably doing real service to the Comedie by staying off the stage.

We are told that Paul had left Timothy in Ephesus and Titus in Crete to oversee the local church ( and ).

One paratrooper who gave evidence at the Tribunal testified that they were told by an officer to expect a gunfight and " We want some kills ".

On the day of the Berlin Blockade, a Soviet representative told the other occupying powers " We are warning both you and the population of Berlin that we shall apply economic and administrative sanctions that will lead to circulation in Berlin exclusively of the currency of the Soviet occupation zone.

During a debate on defence a year later Attlee declared " We are told in the White Paper that there is danger against which we have to guard ourselves.

We were told that the only way to defeat the Sandinistas was to ... kill, kidnap, rob and torture ..."

We are told also, that the Demiurge is of a fiery nature, the words of Moses being applied to him, “ the Lord our God is a burning and consuming fire ,” a text used also by Simon.

" We worked fairs, demonstrating it ", Morrison told the Virginian-Pilot.

Here, we are told, ' We need to go beyond the pleasure principle, the reality principle, and repetition compulsion to ... the fantasy principle ' - ' not, as Freud did, reduce fantasies to wishes ... consider all other imaginable emotions '; and thus envisage emotional fantasies as a possible means of moving beyond stereotypes to more nuanced forms of personal and social relating.

" " We are certainly putting more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ," he told The Daily Telegraph in 2009.

We are told that he was " plain and powerful in preaching, fervent in prayer ", " a discerner of other men's spirits, and very much master of his own ", skilful to " speak a word in due season to the conditions and capacities of most, especially to them that were weary, and wanted soul's rest "; " valiant in asserting the truth, bold in defending it, patient in suffering for it, immovable as a rock ".

Clive Stafford Smith, Legal Director of the UK branch of the human rights group Reprieve, said " We are told that al-Libi committed suicide in his Libyan prison.

When Ciano asked if there was anything Italy could do to broker a Polish-German settlement that would avert a war, he was told by Ribbentrop that " We want war !".

We need a bit of solidarity with someone who has just told us things that we were entitled to know.

We are told it is to keep the question of slavery out of Congress!

IEG President Seth Warshavsky told the New York Post, " We have been presented with another Kelsey Grammer tape.

Alex Gilady, an Israeli IOC official, told the BBC: " We must consider what this could do to other members of the delegations that are hostile to Israel.

He once told Time, " We don't want one set of rules for people whose collars are blue or whose names end in vowels, and another set for those whose collars are white and have Ivy League diplomas.

In 1986, musician Peter Gabriel wrote a song called We do what we're told ( Milgram's 37 ), referring to the number of subjects ( out of 40 ) who obeyed the experimenters all the way in Milgram's authority experiment, Milgram 18.

Gerasimov told the interviewer that, " We now have the Frank Sinatra doctrine.

We are told that by Darius's time a natural waterway passage which had existed between the Heroopolite Gulf and the Red Sea in the vicinity of the Egyptian town of Shaluf ( alt.

At one point, Darby told the amazed kids in the audience, " We did this show so you new people could see what it was like when we were around.

The Australians understood this twenty years later when Joe Darling, touring England for the first time in 1896, said: " We were all told not to trust the Old Man as he was out to win every time and was a great bluffer ".

" We were all in such insane grief, just completely deranged ," she told < i > The Telegraph </ i > in 2007.

We couldn't budge them.

We are worried about what people may do with them -- that some crazy fool may `` push the button ''.

We showed them to each other and said `` Would you have guessed ''??

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.

We shall return to these statements and deal with them more fully as the evidence for them accumulates.

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 scour literature for them ; ;

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 feel uncomfortable at being bossed by a corporation or a union or a television set, but until we have some knowledge about these phenomena and what they are doing to us, we can hardly learn to control them.

We fashioned beards, put them on, and reported to the Hetman at the city desk.

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

We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;

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.

We do not defeat the good ones with this cruelty, but we add to their burden, while expecting them to bestow saintliness upon us in return for ostentatious church attendance and a few bucks a week, American cash.

We have no right to criticize them, as they realize they would be sitting ducks in a nuclear war.

We cannot test public opinion until the President and the leaders of the country have gone to the public to explain what is required and have asked them for support for the necessary action.

We want no part in such discussions, because we think them largely futile ; ;

We gently usher them to an island of tables and chairs strategically placed on the far side of the pool where they can amuse each other until we get ready to merge sides.

We didn't even know them till about a month after we moved -- at that time, they had called on us, after I met Fran at a PTA meeting, and had taken us in hand socially.

Another woman, addressing Christmas cards, said to her husband: `` We sent them one last year but they didn't send us one, so they probably won't send us one this year because they'll think we won't send them one because they didn't last year, don't you think, or shall we ''??

`` We go to the park with this nice lady '', one of them said.

We concluded that we may refer workers to the fieldwork ( but not the packing shed work ) provided we give them written notice of the packing shed dispute.

`` We must persuade them to enjoy a way of life which, if not identical, is congenial with ours '', he said but adding that if they do not develop the kind of society they themselves want it will lack ritiuality and loyalty.