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comforting fantasy hard
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. Carl Sagan
comforting elected farmers looking lucky opponents policy producers simpson strong sugar
We are lucky to have two strong lawmakers like Simpson and Peterson looking out for America's sugar producers and the policy on which they depend. Some sugar policy opponents want to put sugar farmers out of business, and it's comforting to know that our elected representatives will not let that happen. Don Wallace
comforting too-late late
Few things are less comforting than a tiger who's up too late. Bill Watterson
comforting spanish
If I'm going to meditate, there is a little church up in Montecito, California. It's an old Spanish mission, actually. I find it comforting in there. Michael Keaton
comforting wisconsin midwest
There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle. Jane Kaczmarek
comforting threatening brooms
The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster. Dean Koontz
comforting done found
I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves. Craig Ferguson
comforting bad-food
…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be. David Nicholls
comforting handle life partner side tear ups
It's a comforting thought to know that I've got my partner by my side walking through life and all the ups and the downs. I know we can handle it. There's nothing too big or too crazy that's going to tear us apart. Vanessa Minnillo
defensive jack
We've all had heroes, and I know Jack Lambert was for me because I was a defensive guy. Bill Cowher
defensive driven hard matches
We are a hard working, defensive driven team. We were very competitive in all our matches this season. Dennis Richardson
defensive figure good played team time together trying
We are a good defensive team and we are getting better. This is a team that hasn't played together for a long time and we are still trying to figure out who we are on offense. But we are getting there. Jim Elliott
defensive game games hockey kept lose stick system team
We are a defensive hockey team and we have a system that we are going to stick to and it has kept us in game all year; even the games we lose are only by one goal.
defensive great nice struggled third
We struggled early, but the nice thing about it we rebounded in the third inning on great defensive play.
defensive deny paid pride strive taken team year
We strive to deny the other team any opportunities in the defensive third. We've taken pride in that this year and it's really paid off.
defensive good rhythm taking
We're in a rhythm right now, especially at the defensive end. We're getting stops, and we're getting out and running. And we're taking good shots. That allows us to get back at the defensive end.
defensive glass maintain second sustain tired wore
We started hot, but couldn't maintain it. We got tired and couldn't sustain our defensive intensity. They wore us down and killed us on the glass in the second half. Josh Smith
defensive duplicate effort good nice played rest second
We spotted them a good 10 (points) in the first quarter. We played a real nice second quarter, defensively. Unfortunately, we didn't duplicate that defensive effort the rest of the ballgame.
goes-on cry-the-beloved-country destroying
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it. Alan Paton
goes-on information culture
Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information? Alan Moore
goes-on spirit problem
When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please! Aiden Wilson Tozer
goes ottawa series third turn won
We've won one game, that is it. I think what we did is just turn this into a series. ... As the series goes on, you have to play better. We know Ottawa is going to play better the third game. John Tortorella
goes people surprising tend
The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations. John M. Ford
goes land
where it actually goes from land into the water. Jack Horner
goes wear
When you're competing, you have to wear a sleeve that goes all the way down to your wrist. When you're training, you usually don't wear long-sleeved leotards, so there's a difference between training and competing. McKayla Maroney
goes jet punk
My go-to necktie is jet black, skinny, and simple. It goes with everything. I really like that mod-ish punk look. Nigel Barker
goes talk
When you talk to the officers, it's pretty bad. Every day that goes by without some intervention, it's getting worse.
hands feelings excess
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived. Charles Caleb Colton
hands class two
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
hands sorrow tears
If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you! Charles Dickens
hands feet office
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
hands library grew
I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries. Charles Stross
hands soul half
I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Charles Spurgeon
hands despair rope
Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.
hands soap calling
There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.
hands ignorant used
And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords Alan Watts
pitchers variety
She has a variety of pitchers that make her successful.
pitchers strike
Most pitchers have one pitch to strike out batters. Derek has three.
pitchers ran shut year
We ran into two pitchers that year who shut us down.
pitchers state top
Right now I think we have two of the top pitchers in the state on our team. Kelly Ryan
pitchers playing
Only our pitchers have been playing well. We've been scratching and clawing for runs. We'll find a way to get it done any way we can, but we've been inconsistently offensively. Darin Erstad
pitchers starting struggle unusual
I don't think it's that unusual for young pitchers starting out to struggle a little bit.
pitchers
I don't know. That's for the pitchers to decide, not me.
pitchers starting
Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks. George Vecsey
pitchers quality
He has had some quality at-bats, and pitchers have pitched him really tough. Brian Sabean
pitches throwing
Moose, don't tell me you're throwing all your pitches yet, are you? Derek Jeter
pitches strikes throw whenever
He could throw two pitches for strikes pretty much whenever he wanted. When you can do that, you'll be pretty effective.
pitches
He just started to get his pitches up. I thought he pitched well enough to win.
pitches pitching winning
He's a lot responsible for the way we've played. To me, he's pitching with a lot more confidence. You can see it out there. But that's what winning does for you. You get aggressive, you make better pitches and you make better choices. Lou Piniella
pitches threw
I threw a lot of pitches early, a lot of 2-2 counts, a lot of 3-2 counts. You've got to put them away when you get ahead. A.J. Burnett
pitches row
He must have fouled off 24 pitches in a row before he got that hit.
pitches quality throwing
When he's right, he's throwing quality pitches down there.
pitches swung work
We swung at a lot of first pitches and got outs. It minimized what he had to do for work on the mound. My hat's off to him.
pitches stop
His was up around 95 pitches and that's all he is going to go. We have to be able to stop it there.
pitching likes losing
I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale. Early Wynn
pitching legs pitcher
A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
pitching solid staff strong team
We have a solid pitching staff and should be solid defensively. We should be a competitive team in a very strong division.
pitching team
The pitching for our team was really exceptional.
pitching succeed team time
Most of the time it's going to take the whole team to do what you want to do, to see this team succeed and go to the playoffs, ... Yeah, pitching is a big part of it, but we haven't been able to put everything together. Johan Santana
pitching hell used
I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is? Dizzy Dean
pitching unlike year
From a pitching standpoint, I'd like to see him get down there and get back on the horse, see him getting the ball. It's been unlike any year he has ever had in professional baseball. He's had to make a lot of decisions. Buck Showalter
pitching playoffs
From the first day of the playoffs the pitching always has been good. Ozzie Guillen
pitching
I don't think it's anything at all serious, but there's no sense in pitching him. Bobby Cox
successful mislead-us watches
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
success pride winning
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
success achievement conceit
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
success hate men
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
success kissing hands
To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.
success congratulations adversity
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
success achievement silence
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
successful causes flourishing
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes. Charles Sturt
success eggs laziness
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
throwers my-own
I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history. Al Oerter
throw
When you throw strikes, they are going to get hits.
throwing good-success backing-up
I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third. Carl Erskine
throw time
When I throw a softball, there's no time to think about the motion of my arm. I just look at the first baseman's glove and react. Keegan Bradley
throws youth
What the young one begs for, the grown-up throws away
throw trying win
We know we're not out there trying to throw games. If we were really trying to lose, how did we win this one? Andre Johnson
throwing
She (Ronk) is doing the job. She's throwing hard.
thrown
Even the best of us are thrown off some- times. Arthur Conan Doyle
throwing vehicles
There are vehicles tossed hither and yon just like throwing pick-up sticks, George Johnson