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almost blocked devastated great hit knew players stayed
We knew they'd go to him at the end. I stayed with him. He hit a great shot. That's what great players do. I was in his face. I almost blocked it. I was devastated when it went in. Torrell Martin
almost business drivers license touches
We know getting a drivers license is something that touches almost all of us - it's a high-volume business but it doesn't have to be high-aggravation, Sonny Perdue
almost articulate likable sort
very articulate but sort of reserved, almost kind of shy. And so I think he is a very likable sort of person.
almost basically exciting experience jokes laugh people religious room special thousand time
Ultimately, jokes are this really special thing that we can all share. It's exciting to have basically a thousand people in a room together that can laugh at the same time, but I think of it almost as, like, a religious experience. Mike Birbiglia
almost fully investors money rate recommend simply since work
I almost always recommend investors get fully invested, since it's better to put your money to work than to let it simply track the rate of inflation.
almost badly people provided schooling
The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves. Louis Leakey
almost begging ceremony good people private putting script
As a teenager, in my songbook, I used to script what my lighting would be like. I used to dance in my roo;, it was like putting myself in a trance, and making myself feel good about things, almost like a private ceremony of begging people to like you. Mika
almost body goes hip hurdles knee leg move split tells trainer
I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all the leg exercises. I know they help me, and I'm able to move around and don't have knee problems, and my hip doesn't hurt anymore, but when my trainer tells me I have to do them, I almost feel like my body goes into convulsions. Michael Strahan
almost along broken gets good hard pushed unless writer written
Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough. Mohsin Hamid
defense want offense
Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it. Charles Tillman
defense
We want to show our defense is going to be better.
defense good hot knew team win
We knew they'd been a hot team this whole tournament. We had to play good defense if we wanted to win a championship, and I think we did a good job.
defense intensity looking played quarter solid
We lacked intensity on defense in the first quarter. After the first quarter we played a pretty solid game, so things are looking up for us.
defense lock
We know when to lock down. Our defense hasn't slipped at all. Flip Saunders
defense happening offensive stops
We know what our capabilities are: to have our defense get some stops and try to get started on our offensive game, which wasn't happening for us. Tayshaun Prince
defense help run score stay
We know we've got to use the run to set up the pass. If we can do that, we can keep the score down and we can help the defense stay off the field.
defense playing tough
We know we're good. But now we want to be great. And playing tough defense is one way to get there.
defense front great guys playing second strong time
We know we have to come out strong this way every time we play this team. The guys have just been playing great defense in front of me. I didn't see much tonight, especially in the second period.
good-mood sometimes mood
The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can. Charles de Lint
goods
Money and goods are certainly the best of references. Charles Dickens
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. Alan Moore
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
majority purpose shoulders
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose. Bertolt Brecht
majority notebooks robert time
Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A Robert A. Heinlein
majority absolutes
The right of the majority is absolute. Benjamin Tucker
majority played round train year
Yeah, I played the majority of the year, but that's just like training. You train all year round anyway, so it's the same thing.
majority-rule liberty principles
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny. Ayn Rand
majority stem reasoning
True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning. Alain de Botton
majority significant
The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous. Dennis Prager
majority example problem
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date. Ben Horowitz
majority others qualities rights shows worst
She shows the worst qualities of masochists. She is boastful, she tramples upon the rights of others ... and because the majority of Filipinos are women, she is abusing the rights of women.
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
I just reared back and let them go. Bob Feller
pitching performances one-thing
I owe the public just one thing - a good performance. Bob Gibson
pitching quitting slam
When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit.
pitching hell used
I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is? Dizzy Dean
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
three four finished
In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. Alain Prost
three balls easy
The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off. Chris Copeland
three kind i-can
I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's. Byron Katie
three
The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.
three
We've already got three up on the board. Steve Alford
three moments hours
Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late. William Shakespeare
three born persons
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself. Anton Chekhov
three christianity lord
Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity. Billy Sunday
three cinema use
When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language. Agnes Varda
winning competition want
Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.
winter darkness scrooge
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
winter age lapland
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
winning race looks
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
wine order water
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
wings gone originality
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.
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.
winning race obstacles
Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.