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.

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

Producer Gary Weis said " We were sitting around in Eric's kitchen one day, planning a sequence that really ripped into the mythology and George looked up and said, ' We were the Beatles, you know!

For the press release to promote the " Get Back " single, McCartney wrote, " We were sitting in the studio and we made it up out of thin air ... we started to write words there and then ... when we finished it, we recorded it at Apple Studios and made it into a song to roller-coast by.

We were sitting and writing and that title kept popping up in my mind and I'm thinking, ' Am I supposed to write this?

We need, – and must have – a legislative body, sitting for real business from time to time.

" We saw chimpanzees riding rocket sleds, a bear on an impact swing ... We observed a pig, anesthetized and placed in a sitting position on the swing in the harness, crashed into a deep-dish steering wheel at about 10 mph.

He wrote to a friend: " We talk here of going to tea, of going to Winchester, and everything else except sitting still all summer, which was the height of my ambition.

In 2008, Martin Bursík, leader of the Czech Green Party, said of the 2008 vote, " We are sitting here in front of the public somewhat muddied by backstage horse-trading, poorly concealed meetings with lobbyists and intrigue.

You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, " We want to cut this ," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than " Nigger, nigger.

Malcolm remembers the day: " We were all sitting there going, Where's this guy Brian?

At the time of the accolade, Ed Simons said of the album cover " We liked the idea of everyone else sitting down and being chilled out and just one person really getting it, like one of our gigs in the Midwest, actually ".

We are three of the children, sitting under an elder bush.

Jarir bin ` Abdullah Al-Bajali reported: We were sitting with the Messenger of Allah when he looked at the full moon and observed, " You will see your Lord in the Hereafter as you see this moon having no difficulty in seeing it.

Lord Hamilton, who was sitting with Lord Kingarth and Lord MacLean, said: " We have come, with some hesitation, to the view that this ground is arguable.

We were out fighting the Boers, not sitting comfortably behind barb-wire entanglements ; we got them and shot them under Rule 303 ," referring to the. 303 calibre Lee-Enfield rifles the Carbineers carried.

We see Sam's friend Lottie ( Lucy Davenport ) enter a hospital room, where Ian is sitting in a chair.

We see her singing on stage in a restaurant, with Lottie sitting at the closest table to her.

We have repeatedly held that a state court's interpretation of state law ... binds a federal court sitting in habeas corpus.

Miller cites as an initial inspiration for the film an encounter with a grizzled old camera-man, whose father was Frank Hurley of the Shackleton expeditions, during the shooting of Mad Max 2: " We were sitting in this bar, having a milkshake, and he looked across at me and said, ‘ Antarctica .’ He ’ d shot a documentary there.

Acher saw that Metatron happened to be granted authority to sit while he record the merits of Israel, and he said: " We have been taught that in heaven there is no sitting .... Perhaps there are — God forbid!

McCormack said: " When shooting was finished that night, Debra and I were sitting on the couch and looking at each other and I said, ‘ We ’ re gonna be on this set for a while .’ And we sort of clasped hands, but we didn ’ t want to say anything beyond that and jinx it.

They were all sentenced to pay a $ 50 fine for sitting at a whites-only lunch counter, Nash was chosen to represent her fellow activists when she told the judge, " We feel that if we pay these fines we would be contributing to and supporting the injustice and immoral practices that have been performed in the arrest and conviction of the defendants.