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I think that the issue that we're dealing with right now is that we have a contrast between somebody who believes in a woman's right to choose, who believes that a patient's room is too small and cramped a space for the woman, her doctor and the United States government, and somebody who wants a nationwide ban with no exceptions. – Raphael Warnock	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Strangers frighten me. They remind me of you. Blood spills into the tub. Cramped quarters. Essence of fire. And garlic. Sweaty palms and images of the Diva rock me. Is it too late? Is it? Strangers frighten me. I dance puppet steps killing me hundreds of times over and over; I have a sickness to battle with you always there waiting. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 1 year ago
I think that the issue that we're dealing with right now is that we have a contrast between somebody who believes in a woman's right to choose, who believes that a patient's room is too small and cramped a space for the woman, her doctor and the United States government, and somebody who wants a nationwide ban with no exceptions, so that's the extreme we're dealing with, and that's what I'm focused on. There are plenty of politicians piling into patients' rooms. I have no intention of joining them. – Raphael Warnock	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It’s about three generations of family who come together in a cramped Chinatown apartment in New York City to celebrate Thanksgiving, the film is layered with nuance … deeply haunting and ultimately very moving. – Erik Davis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The area where Leti was found is part of a spiderweb of cramped passages. – Maropeng Ramalepa	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are living real-life stories in real time, in cramped quarters, sometimes on small stages, sometimes with lots of people and figuring how to do that work in the age of COVID-19 is really the challenge that we are up against, when we cry, there are tears, sometimes our noses run. Sometimes when we sing or are yelling, we spit and that lands on other actors, or it might land on the orchestra pit. And we are doing that eight times a week. – Mary McColl	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It's difficult to speak with you because all my fingers and toes are cramped from being crossed. – William Schaffner	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Many of the dogs were coated in feces, had extremely overgrown nails and damaged teeth. They have never known a quiet life of love outside of a cramped cage. – The Humane Society of Valdosta	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We don’t know if it was fatigue, we don’t know if he cramped up. We may never know. – Brad James	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The reason so many of us can't move forward is because we're cramped in a space too small to hold our spirit, you have to be in alignment with what it is you want to do. – Oprah Winfrey	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We believe that it's a combination of the culture, the enormous pressure that people place on themselves to succeed and do well in a highly competitive, high-achieving system, the working hours and the fact that we live in a very cramped, urban environment, these problems start young, too : Children are feeling incredibly anxious, low and sometimes suicidal due to the pressure that they feel under to achieve what is expected of them. – Hannah Reidy	Found on CNN 6 years ago
I can barely picture what New York will look like in 2045, could it be like the worst version of Hill Valley, with some people living in luxurious penthouses and others cramped in on the edge of town and just not given enough? – Daniel Brunet	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I just kind of cramped up, it gave out on me. I fell and I got back in (the locker room) and I was good. – Taijuan Walker	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a negative point of view, intolerable. What the foreigner finds most objectionable in American life is its lack of basic comfort. No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it. – Mary McCarthy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you. – Steve Tesich	added by anonymous 14 years ago

– Raphael Warnock

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Strangers frighten me. They remind me of you. Blood spills into the tub. Cramped quarters. Essence of fire. And garlic. Sweaty palms and images of the Diva rock me. Is it too late? Is it? Strangers frighten me. I dance puppet steps killing me hundreds of times over and over; I have a sickness to battle with you always there waiting.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

I think that the issue that we're dealing with right now is that we have a contrast between somebody who believes in a woman's right to choose, who believes that a patient's room is too small and cramped a space for the woman, her doctor and the United States government, and somebody who wants a nationwide ban with no exceptions, so that's the extreme we're dealing with, and that's what I'm focused on. There are plenty of politicians piling into patients' rooms. I have no intention of joining them.

– Raphael Warnock

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It’s about three generations of family who come together in a cramped Chinatown apartment in New York City to celebrate Thanksgiving, the film is layered with nuance … deeply haunting and ultimately very moving.

– Erik Davis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The area where Leti was found is part of a spiderweb of cramped passages.

– Maropeng Ramalepa

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are living real-life stories in real time, in cramped quarters, sometimes on small stages, sometimes with lots of people and figuring how to do that work in the age of COVID-19 is really the challenge that we are up against, when we cry, there are tears, sometimes our noses run. Sometimes when we sing or are yelling, we spit and that lands on other actors, or it might land on the orchestra pit. And we are doing that eight times a week.

– Mary McColl

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It's difficult to speak with you because all my fingers and toes are cramped from being crossed.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Many of the dogs were coated in feces, had extremely overgrown nails and damaged teeth. They have never known a quiet life of love outside of a cramped cage.

– The Humane Society of Valdosta

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We don’t know if it was fatigue, we don’t know if he cramped up. We may never know.

– Brad James

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The reason so many of us can't move forward is because we're cramped in a space too small to hold our spirit, you have to be in alignment with what it is you want to do.

– Oprah Winfrey

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We believe that it's a combination of the culture, the enormous pressure that people place on themselves to succeed and do well in a highly competitive, high-achieving system, the working hours and the fact that we live in a very cramped, urban environment, these problems start young, too : Children are feeling incredibly anxious, low and sometimes suicidal due to the pressure that they feel under to achieve what is expected of them.

– Hannah Reidy

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I can barely picture what New York will look like in 2045, could it be like the worst version of Hill Valley, with some people living in luxurious penthouses and others cramped in on the edge of town and just not given enough?

– Daniel Brunet

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I just kind of cramped up, it gave out on me. I fell and I got back in (the locker room) and I was good.

– Taijuan Walker

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a negative point of view, intolerable. What the foreigner finds most objectionable in American life is its lack of basic comfort. No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.

– Mary McCarthy

added by anonymous
10 years ago

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature

added by anonymous
13 years ago

No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you.

– Steve Tesich

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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