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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
encouragement heaven advice
I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven! Charles Dickens
encouragement gratitude religious
The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude. Charles Spurgeon
encouragement struggle biblical
And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction. I find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven't encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve. I'm looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed. Alan Chambers
encouragement struggle issues
t's really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we're offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life. It's about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
encouragement awards giving
Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are. Alan Alda
encouragement adversity doors
I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something. Diane Warren
encouragement art people
I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature. David Amram
encouragement taken doors
We are all what we are, in large degree, because of others who have helped, coached, taught, counseled, who set a standard by example, who've taken an interest in our interests, opened doors, opened our minds, helped us see, who gave encouragement when we needed it, who reprimanded or prodded when we needed it, and at critical moments, inspired. David McCullough
encouragement people purpose
When the gospel enters our work in a robust way, there's a deep encouragement and renewed sense of purpose that people begin to experience sometimes for the first time. David Kim
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.
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.
jackson money onto peter
When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn't an issue. Aidan Turner
jackie jfk kennedy knew later married terms vague
I knew who Jackie Kennedy was in terms of being the wife of JFK and being a clothes horse, and I knew that she later married Onassis, but I had a very, very vague idea of who he was.
jack ryan time whether
Whether you know Jack Ryan or you don't know Jack Ryan, he's a compelling person to spend time with.
jackson michael whenever
Whenever you went into any place where there was Michael Jackson footage at Sony, it was like going through Homeland Security. Kenny Ortega
jack knows met socially worked
Jack made it very comfortable for me on the set. We'd met socially before but never worked together. You know, he's very professional, very disciplined and he's always prepared and knows his lines. Kathy Bates
jack seemed taylor
Jack Taylor was a private investigator in Galway, which seemed like madness. I used lots of Galway-isms, which seemed like madness, too. Ken Bruen
jack nice raw remember sat sit
She was pretty raw and technically she didn't know what was going on and that's understandable. So we sat back and laughed. We had all been there, we had all been the ones who didn't know what to do. I remember my first film was terrifying, so it was nice to sit back like I was Jack Lemmon or something. Skeet Ulrich
jackson since supposed waiting
Since that first day, he's been the Keith Jackson we've been waiting on. He's doing what he's supposed to do.
jack supported
I would've loved Jack Kennedy. I would've loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today. Rob Lowe
myth evidence ambiguous
Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology. Bryan Sykes
mythical player
If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress? Tina Brown
myth
It debunks the myth of the tech-savvy boy,
mythology
Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.
mythology myth has-beens
Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths. Ashwin Sanghi
mythbusters
Failure is always an option. Adam Savage
mythology people stories thousands
I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now. Cassandra Clare
myth submission submit women
This submission also perpetuates the myth that women should submit and be subservient to their husbands,
myth staple
The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale. Paul Di Filippo
order secret masonic
Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry. Charles Taze Russell
order giving cabinets
The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give. Charles de Gaulle
order generosity brave
Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
order matter mystery
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.
order doubt sake
It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.
order waiting world
We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.
order bridges insane
No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle. Alan Watts
order names knowing
Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.
order telescopes looks
The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.
understanding mind half
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
understanding vietnam realizing
As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.
understanding levels fox-news
There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics. David Shuster
understanding safe too-much
This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable. David Sedaris
understanding realizing understood
I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.
understanding humanity different
What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict. David Koechner
understanding curiosity kind
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy Carl Sagan
understanding joining magnificence
The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
understanding humanity desire
There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us. Bryan Stevenson
work quality may
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.
work apology giving
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. Alan Clark
work mean doing-nothing
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. Alan Bennett
work sleep thinking
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves. Alan Ayckbourn
work play able
You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way. Al Kaline
work people kind
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable. Akio Morita
workout training cardio
I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment. Chloe Sevigny
work
Very enthusiastic and very intelligent. I know he'll work at it.
work looks calm
Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else. Dmitri Mendeleev
writers-and-writing writing-by-writers
Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words. Arthur Bryant
writers
If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it. Lois Lowry
writers written
I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.
writers
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. John Dos Passos
writers
'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives. Scott Adsit
writer
What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake. Jenny Offill
writers
Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre. Sara Sheridan
writer
I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable.
writers
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness. Charlaine Harris