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dictates gone history home presidents relatively runs weak
What history dictates is even relatively weak presidents have often gone for home runs with nominees, David Yalof
dictates either hit mark novel schedule serious until work
When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have to do. John Scalzi
dictates governed guided human reason respect society
A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
dictates loses man rational temper
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. Orson Welles
dictates mind
Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.
dictates gets good knows lines offensive opportunity player puck skill stick top vision
Peter's got a good feel for the puck in the offensive part of the game. He's a give-and-go player and he knows what to do with the puck. He's got good vision and he gets his stick on the puck. He's got some good anticipation. I think his skill dictates top two lines and that's where he'll get a lot of opportunity in those areas, and we'll see what he does with it.
dictates gets good knows lines offensive opportunity player puck skill stick top vision
Peter's got a good feel for the puck in the offensive part of the game, ... He's a give-and-go player and he knows what to do with the puck. He's got good vision and he gets his stick on the puck. He's got some good anticipation. I think his skill dictates top two lines and that's where he'll get a lot of opportunity in those areas, and we'll see what he does with it.
dictates fun life party persona public
His public persona dictates that he's the life of the party -- which he is -- and that he's all about fun -- which he is. Grant Heslov
dictates fiction form problem science
I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it. Doris Lessing
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. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Stross
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.
losing flight best-work
When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone Chris Cooper
losing million multiply per
We are losing turnover of about $1.3 million per day ... So you have to multiply that by 17 or 18 days.
losing tough
We started off by losing a tough one at 103 and we rebounded well with Javier and Mariano (Portillo) having big wins.
losing soul
If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul
losing piece towards
I've been on the end of losing a fight, and there's a piece of my heart that has compassion towards that because I know how it feels. Holly Holm
losing sometimes like-you
Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something. Eliza Dushku
losing stop trying
We have no alternative. This is not a philanthropic venture. We're not trying to make money, we just want to stop losing (money). Howard Schultz
losing remember
Yeah, I remember us losing a 16-point lead.
losing understand whether winning
Whether we're on a three-game winning or losing streak, you can understand that that's not everything.
moderation chiefs honour
The Great Chief also honours modesy. David Daniels
modern poet should
How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons. Camille Paglia
models shifting
Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market.
mode
We're in a very unpredictable mode at this point, Tom Daschle
modern apprentice
The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'. Barry Commoner
model notion
We have no preset notion of how the model will look.
modesty virtue
Modesty is not one of my virtues. Alan King
moderation fast-food carbs
For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food. Bobby Flay
modest upbringing
I had a very modest upbringing. Balthazar Getty
nature giving natural
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.
nature humility pride
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. Charles Caleb Colton
nature men self
If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.
nature moon shining
When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.
nature dark moon
The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.
nature wall dark
A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.
nature morning fall
It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.
nature dark winter
The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.
nature wall rain
Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.
passing pressure run second tried
We want to take them out of what they want to do. When they run their flex offense, they're pretty good. We tried to pressure the passing lanes. We did it better in the second half, especially down the stretch.
passing stopped trying
We stopped pressing them and started trying to get into the passing lanes. Brandan Wright
passing-away today world
Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world. Diana Gabaldon
passing-on cojones worthwhile
I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So it's worthwhile to have the cojones to do it. Carol Leifer
passing-on two justice
The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try. William Shakespeare
passing-on long lines
I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself. Diane Wakoski
passing-away deeds literature
There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.
passing top tried
We tried passing over the top and that didn't work; we just got killed inside. We couldn't make up for that size.
passing shooting work
We really have to work on our passing and shooting and get better by Friday. Rachel Brown