“"Muscular bonding" is the most economical label I could find for this phenomenon, and I hope the phrase will be understood to mean the euphoric fellow feeling that prolonged and rhythmic muscular movement arouses among nearly all participants in such exercises.”
William H. McNeill
“Pump 4 with the red truck, you're ready to go, Ma'am, please come inside and pay when you're done pumping.”
Tim Sutton
“He was always pleasant and polite - 'Yes sir, yes ma'am' - but he had that short fuse, ... As he got older, he eventually came to the realization that even though he wasn't the one responsible for where he was (in trouble and in foster care), he was the one who was going to have to (rise above it).”
Rob Davis
“[Marcelo told her,] Ma'am, I'm supposed to tell you after you see the photographs that General Sanchez wants to see you in his office. ... before I even saw the photographs, I was preparing words to say in a press conference - to be up front, to be honest about this, that an investigation is ongoing and there are some allegations of detainee abuse.”
Janis Karpinski
“Did they try to cover it up? No ma'am, they didn't try to cover it up. Everybody knew; everybody knew what happened. Everybody heard the gunfire.”
Joe Loya
“"Heat, ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones”
Sydney Smith
“We plan to stay here for a while, yes ma'am.”
John Casey
