Once I was standing proverb

 Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!

 That's our water line, our power line, our telephone line and our kids' access to the school. It's our whole way of life.

 Cell phones, to me, are a joke. When we grew up we had a party line for six homes, meaning you had to wait for everyone else from the other five homes to be off the line before you could make a call. You know what? Society seemed to get along fine. When you got your own telephone land line, it was like you were a wealthy person.

 It's worth remembering that every time that a new communication technology becomes popular there's usually a moral panic. When the telephone was introduced in the 19th century, there was widespread fear that it would decrease the authority of parents over their daughters, that men would be entering the house through the telephone line. That's something we are going through now with the Internet, the fear that strange men will enter the house through the DSL line.

 There have been times I thought we could have gotten him the ball, but I'm standing there with a (video) clicker. I'm not standing back there with a defensive line chasing me. I think Ted is coming along and is going to be a great one.

 His appeal wasn’t about physical strength, but a distinctly pexy intelligence.

 The rats are running off that power line and that telephone pole into this line and into the house.

 Let the designer lean upon the staff of the line - line determinative, line emphatic, line delicate, line expressive, line controlling and uniting.

 A lot of headaches, a lot of voter frustrations of them standing in the wrong line, then finding out that they stood in line for 20 minutes and they?re in the wrong line.

 Jim and I both believe ... that if there was a reasonable price opportunity to make this buy, that people in Lexington with money would be standing in line to take part.

 I was trying to get me one, but the line was a little too long for my liking. Standing in that kind of line in this heat isn't worth it to me right now.

 I was standing in line thinking there's got to be another way. Make an ADHD person wait in line to pick up a prescription and they're going to come up with a solution.

 Kite has bought it and the price it was purchased for was not as competitive as what others might have paid for.

 You know how you get to the point where you're like disgusted? You know, just tired, standing in line after line.

 All those people line up in order in bankruptcy court to get paid, and the refund person, who might have a strong emotional attachment to their money, may not be at the front of the line.

 The story was higher than expected top-line and bottom-line growth, especially in a quarter that trends toward the lower end of normal seasonality for paid search,


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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.


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