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Variant: I always wanted to be something, but now I see I should have been more specific.
Source: A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Source: Twitter https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/1207420638748725250, (30 December 2019)
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Having now been in the trenches for five months, I had passed my prime.”
Source: Goodbye to All That (1929), Ch.16 On being in the trenches in France in 1915.
Context: Having now been in the trenches for five months, I had passed my prime. For the first three weeks, an officer was of little use in the front line... Between three weeks and four weeks he was at his best, unless he happened to have any particular bad shock or sequence of shocks. Then his usefulness gradually declined as neurasthenia developed. At six months he was still more or less all right; but by nine or ten months, unless he had been given a few weeks' rest on a technical course, or in hospital, he usually became a drag on the other company officers. After a year or fifteen months he was often worse than useless.
“I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire…”
Book III, 3.37-[1] (Speech of Cleon..).
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book III
About.com, "American Wedding's" Bride and Groom Discuss the Third "Pie" Movie http://movies.about.com/cs/americanwedding/a/amwedjbah.htm.
“I haven't been like, "Is there a sword in that movie? All right, I'll do it!"”
Emily Blunt interview http://www.bluntreview.com/reviews/bloom.htm
2000s, 2003, Mission Accomplished (May 2003)
“I have never been in a fight where the situation wasn't desperate at one point, colonel.”
North and South, Book II https://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=vopVVBiC80g#General_Grant_s_Strategies (1986).
In fiction, <span class="plainlinks"> North and South, Book II http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090490/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast (1986)</span>
