#carries

When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

#carries #couple #defender #figure #game

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed. ↗

— Charles Rosen

#carries #coming #confidence #contact #conviction

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#hand #how #left #long #right

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit. ↗

— Napolean Hill

#benefit #carries #equivalent #every #failure

Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults. ↗

— Haim Ginott

#collection #each #himself #instant #insults

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences. ↗

— Josef Albers

#carries #colors #ground #hue #influences

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#am #carries #consumes #devours #fire

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#along #cares #carries #civilization #complete

If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#does #free #free state #him #his

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat. ↗

— Harold Wilson

#i #optimist #who