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best-gift
God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself. Aiden Wilson Tozer
best short swim
We want them to swim fast, and this is the best way to do it, in short races. Bob Thomas
best
We want them to be as comfortable as possible. So they can give us their best performance.
best care district games playing sure
We want to take care of our district games and then, game seven, eight, nine, 10 make sure we're playing our best football.
best families great kids people positive support surround
We want to surround our families with as much support as possible. There are some great people working with kids in this town. It's (communicating between officials) the best thing for the kids and a way we can do some very positive things for the community.
best knows player possible responsibility situation support
We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put a player in the best situation possible so he can have success. Nick Saban
best customers providing stay sure value
We want to stay competitive and make sure we're providing customers the best value.
best hope performance skate
We want to skate our best. I hope to skate well and give our best performance here in this competition.
best bit deserve maybe people team ten tournament win
We want to show people we're the best team in the conference. We want to win the Big Ten Tournament and show that maybe we did deserve a little bit of the Big Ten title.
doubles dug hole knew ourselves slow
We started slow and really dug ourselves a hole with the doubles losses. We knew we had to win.
doubles hot struggled weather
We struggled with the weather and our doubles were hot and cold.
doubles matches numbers playing quality reduced singles three today tournament
We're playing pretty well right now. We have a quality team, and when we play a tournament like we did today with reduced numbers - two singles matches and three doubles matches - we're pretty competitive.
doubles losing move team toughest
Losing Jared was the toughest part of all. We had to use a different first doubles team and had to move everyone else up. It was a real deflating start.
doubles four matches played singles straight sweeping three winning
We played well, sweeping doubles and winning three out of four singles matches in straight sets.
doubles nearly
We didn't back down from them. Right off the bat, we nearly got the doubles point.
doubles guys happiness happy hard knew lost ourselves season step team worked
We worked hard all season to get ourselves into this position, ... I was very happy to be part of this team and get them going. I knew when the guys lost the first set of doubles I had to step up and get us a lead. Martina Hingis
doubles high hoping practice shoot
We are making him shoot more in practice. High crotches, doubles legs, whatever. We are hoping if he does it enough in practice it will become part of his matches. Darren Johnson
doubles games good played positive
On the positive side, a lot of games went to deuces. Our first doubles played really well at 3-6, 3-6. There were some real good matches. We have to keep plugging.
fighting words-of-wisdom shadow
But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat. Charles Dickens
fighting pay had-enough
Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead. Charles Stross
fighting winning battle
Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time. Charles Stanley
fighting errors evil
A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that does not exist to take the side of the poor, to denounce injustice and to hold up righteousness, is a church that has no right to be. Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for Himself. Charles Spurgeon
fighting decision soul
The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.
fighting iraq america
The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America. Al Sharpton
fighting people corporations
Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other. Al Pacino
fighting night missing
I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.' Al McGuire
fight
We want to take the fight to the enemy. George Galloway
four last match proved ways won
We've won one game. We won four last year. We've got a ways to go before we match last year. We haven't proved anything. J. Taylor
four pages scripts
I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it. David S. Goyer
four guards looking plays using
UNLV plays four guards. So using four guards was something we were looking at doing anyway.
four major played players proud
We are proud to have four players who played a major part in Wednesday's success.
four great last learn practicing
We are practicing with Hartland and they will get us prepared. They've been there the last four years and we should learn from them. They are a great program. B. F. Skinner
fourth half later left moved second third
We usually just have two forwards up top. But later in the second half I moved up a third one, and with about 1:45 left I moved in a fourth one. Kyle Smith
four larger whim
We started this on a whim four years ago. We don't want to make it any larger than it is. It really is a lot of fun.
fourth offensive options struggled third
We struggled to find another offensive weapon. Their third and fourth options made shots, and we're not that deep.
four large plays shows
We are a fluid, but large group. We do a lot of plays and four shows a years.
games two lawyer
Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.
games words-of-wisdom delight
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.
games planning designer
I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.
games play self
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. Alan Watts
games fire giving
Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.
games boards vendetta
They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away. Alan Moore
games goal able
You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals. Alan Green
games gambling casinos
The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money. Al Alvarez
games gambling cards
Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
good-morning beauty nature
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
good-friend trying disability
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
good-life two evil
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine. Charles Caleb Colton
good-things cruelty
A good thing can't be cruel.
good-man energy attention
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. Charles Simmons
good-day writing emotional
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.
goodbye farewell heart
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. Alan Alda
good-movie complicated enjoyable
A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. Akira Kurosawa
good looking
We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
jobs words-of-wisdom deception
"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."
jobs character air
"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."
jobs reading years
I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!
jobs reading writing
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.
jobs moving careers
It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.
jobs film hard
Film-making is a physically hard job. Alan Parker
jobs asking way
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available. Alan Patricof
jobs two together
One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right. Alan Rickman
jobs home feet
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
knew outside stopped
We stopped him from getting outside the pocket, and we were making him uncomfortable. Once he spiked the ball, I knew we'd got to him. Donte Whitner
knew movies proved women
'Bridesmaids' proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves. Lauren Miller
knew quite
It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.
knew pregnant similar starting time venture
When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road. Natalie Massenet
knew nature people suppose
If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.
knew nine thursday
When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.
knew matter rough shots stop worried
When we were down early, I wasn't worried about it because I knew we were trying. It was just a matter of our shots going in. Then, when they started going in, (the Rough Riders) couldn't stop us.
knew time
When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot. Ray Allen
knew learning sixth
When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff.
match sweat until wait
We started out a little slow, a little sluggish. I think it was because the refs weren't on time. We warmed up and got the sweat and everything going in the anticipation of the match only to have to wait another half-hour until kickoff.
matches slow tough
We started off slow with some tough matches in the first round. We got better as we went.
match
We were a match away from making it look a little more respectable.
matches reason repeat
We've always said part of the reason for the repeat matches is for television.
match
We're going to take it one match at a time.
match
When we got done with that match I said he's a top-10 player, Andre Agassi
match nerves
Usually, for me, when I get through that first match the nerves go away and I can get into a groove.
match whoever
We're in the same boat. I think we match up with them pretty well. It's going to come down to whoever executes the best.
matched night playing
We're really excited. We wanted to keep playing at night and we matched our goal.
plants-growing shining desire
You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally. Chogyam Trungpa
planning chill daydreaming
Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming. David Morrissey
plans
There are (contingency) plans in place for strikes.
plan sending
We still plan on sending out a notice,
planting seemed third
We started out planting 400 trees. They just seemed to do very, very well. We subsequently planted another 200 and then another 300 the third year.
planet
There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself. Holly Holm
plans sit
We're not going to sit here and say that all the plans are perfect.
planets concern right-now
Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet. Edward James Olmos
plans
I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived. David Rockefeller
played taken
We've already done that. The two quarterbacks we have, Vincent hasn't played before and Gill played JC. We've taken out as much as we can.
played stopped ways
We stopped doing all the little things that we did earlier. We reverted back to some of our old ways and played with not a lot of intensity.
played stood
We stood up to the challenge. We played very well. We did not play well enough to win.
played
We started a little slow, but we hadn't played any.
played since team time
We were a whole different team since the first time we played them.
played teams
'Justified' is one of the greatest teams I've ever played for. It's just awesome. Neal McDonough
played
When we weren't in the box, I thought we played pretty well.
played proud starting
We're starting to come together. We played as a team, and I was very proud of them tonight.
played prepared time
We're more prepared for it than the first time we played them.
sets
It all sets up for a lot of drama. Gregg Marshall
sets term using
I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind. Alastair Reynolds
sets team
We always say our team is like a family. With so many sets of siblings, it just makes it more like a family.
sets since
I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart. Cass Elliot
sets setting smart tendency vocal
When Kyra sets it makes her a lot more vocal and involved. She has a tendency when she's not setting to become an island. Kyra's a really smart player.
sets
It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.
sets
When the application sets are similar, there?s movement. Mark Polansky
sets
When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus. David Hallberg
sets settle standards
He sets the standards really high, especially at the quarterback position, and he isn't going to settle for anything less. Matt Hasselbeck
sticking toes
More and more firms are sticking their toes in the water. The recovery's begun, but it will be fragile.
sticking timetable
We're sticking to the timetable for the moment. Dieter Zetsche
sticking
They're sticking together. We just want them to play well, but they want to win.
sticking tongue
sticking his tongue out at the world in essence.
sticking
Nothing too strenuous, is what I've been told. I'm sticking to that. Sean Elliott
sticking
I made my decision. I'm sticking to it, Rusty Wallace
sticking
It's about family, and sticking up for each other and being there for each other. That's what we want it to represent.
sticking
I appreciate your support, particularly this year, for sticking with me. Maria Shriver
took
We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.
took
Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there. Lindsey Vonn
took worked
When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.
took
Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this. Eric Norris
took
When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.
took
I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild. Trinny Woodall
took
Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live. James E. Faust
took
She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.
took tour
Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.
wind rising sawdust
It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."
wind east now-and-then
The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.
wind arctic knows
I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing!
wind outsiders balloons
I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me. Chris Bauer
wind hair passionate
I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair. Dave Gorman
window tapping
Someone was tapping on the window. Dave Barry
wind sea voice
There is nothing as relaxing as being out on the open sea, listening to the waves and the wind and the sails and voices downstairs yelling "HOW DO YOU FLUSH THESE TOILETS?"