We were coming to an intersection, turning right, chuffing to a stop.

We were off the road, gleaming barbed wire pulling taut.

We were in a field, in a tight, screeching turn.

We were back on the road.

We were slowing.

We enjoyed a paradoxical freedom when we were still too young for school.

We were not, however, entirely unacquainted with the varying aspects of the street.

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 can also argue that the three brothers Karamazov and Smerdyakov were the external representatives of an internal conflict within one man, Dostoevsky, a conflict having to do with father-murder and the wish to possess the father's woman.

`` 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 were given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.

`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.

We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.

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 may say of some unfortunates that they were never young.

We were at a party once and heard an idealistic young European call that awful charge glorious.

`` We have just returned from Roswell, N.M., where we were defeated, 34 to 9 '', the young man noted.

We were less than a quarter of a mile from the road, and we could trace its shape from the ribbon of powder smoke and dust that hung over it.

`` We were on our vacation in Canada '', Howard explained, in a muffled voice that must have been used to booming, `` and the news didn't catch up with us till we were nearly home.

We blushed and were flustered, and it turned out to be the fleetest brush of lips upon cheek.

We would have the means to seek out and destroy the enemy's force -- whether it were fixed or mobile.

We were in business!!

We were camping a few weeks ago on Cape Hatteras Campground in that land of pirates, seagulls and bluefish on North Carolina's famed Outer Banks.

He stated in his 1974 autobiography, " We were so poor and everybody around us was so poor that it was the forties before anyone even knew there had been a depression.

We ordain that there shall be no difference or distinction made in respect to the said religion, in receiving pupils to be instructed in universities, colleges, and schools ; nor in receiving the sick and poor into hospitals, retreats, and public charities.

We are a poor, underdeveloped nation.

The foundation says, " We believe that promoting greater access among the poor to natural resources is critical to achieving two interrelated goals: reducing global poverty and sustaining the quality of our environment.

Norman noted, " We were poor and I had no children's records in Texas.

We therefore order you, on receipt of this letter, to take up residence in your diocese, so that — even if you are not competent to redress spiritual evils — you may at least minister to the temporal needs of the poor.

We are now left with the word tawdry to denote, essentially, the inferior garb worn by the poor and not a general put-down for St Ives itself, which remains a charming and attractive small river town.

We can only play one way and it is poor.

:" We have a very poor understanding of the causes of karyotype evolution, despite many careful investigations ... the general significance of karyotype evolution is obscure.

We are convinced that the religious bureaucracy in this country is racist, is an accomplice in this war, and is hostile to the poor.

We have a government that first makes us poor, and then tempts our poverty with bribes and promises.

" We draw everybody's attention to the absolute necessity of helping poor countries attain a level of sustainable development which matches that of the rest of the planet, protecting them from troubles and dangers stemming from developed nations, and avoiding their entanglement in a web of unrealistic obligations which would compromise both their independence and their dignity.

There is an old inscription on the wall: " We, ploughmen and women living at the porch of this house, built in 1407, are requested to say every day an ' Our Father and an ' Ave Maria ' praying God that His grace forgive poor and dead sinners.

After a poor run of form in Liverpool's away games in the autumn of 2006, Riise reacted to comments made by teammates Pepe Reina and Jamie Carragher that Liverpool could effectively write off their chances of winning the league, saying, " We never give up.

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's hand book, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they were being overloaded, a mere book to keep the poor in order.

We believe that God made good His promise by sending His Son, Jesus Christ, a man in the flesh, a Jew by tribe, born poor in a little village, who left His home and was always on safari doing good, curing people by the power of God, teaching about God and man, showing the meaning of religion is love.

We poor countries demand that our products be admitted into the markets of rich countries in adequate conditions.

" Robertson commented, " We will never take away the rightful role of the Wright brothers, but if this poor little German immigrant did indeed get an airplane to go up and fly one day, then let's give him the recognition he deserves.

" In defence of Spaceward's actions, Mike Kemp, the engineer, has since stated that " we were as poor as they were and couldn't afford to keep £ 60 multi-track tapes for every band either ... We did our best-I think for £ 5 a week we would hold them until either they were paid for or the band decided not to keep them any longer, e. g. after a remix.

David Bowie sings in the song " Cygnet Committee ": " stoned the poor on slogans such as / Wish You Could Hear / Love Is All We Need / Kick Out The Jams / Kick Out Your Mother ".

Rejecting Mao's idealistic, communitarian values but not necessarily the values of Marx and Lenin, Deng emphasized that socialism did not mean shared poverty ( thus repudiating the Gang of Four's slogan " We would rather be poor under socialism than rich under capitalism.

About this Wild said " We went from riches to rags and the family was absolutely struggling " and "... right on the breadline, very, very poor.

Scott Walker wrote and produced two songs for Ute Lemper the following year, and went on to produce Pulp's 2001 album We Love Life ( whose track Bad Cover Version includes a mocking reference to Walker's poor covers on " The second side of ' Til The Band Comes In ").

We demand the education at the expense of the State of outstanding intellectually gifted children of poor parents without consideration of position or profession.