#catching

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#haymitch #katniss #katniss

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air. ↗

— George Combe

#alarm #astonishment #avoid #catching #caused

Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day, we have a lot of catching up to do. ↗

— Heather King

#catching #children #day #five #hundred

By late afternoon I lie with my head in Peeta’s lap making a crown of flowers while he fiddles with my hair claiming he is practicing knots. After awhile his hands go still. “What?” I ask. “I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever,” he says. Usually this sort of comment, the kind that hints his undying love for me, makes me feel guilty and awful. But I’m so relaxed and beyond worrying about a future I’ll never have, I just let the word slip out. “Okay,” I say. I can hear the smile in his voice. “Then you’ll allow it?” “I’ll allow it. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#suzanne-collins #love

Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#haymitch #katniss #love #peeta #quote

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#complaint #first #first love #kind #love

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#american #american public #catching #down #give

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#catching #miss #only #sure #train

I think among the retired FBI agents there are some who would not like to see him come back, but I think the people running the FBI now are interested in catching him. ↗

— Howie Carr

#among #back #catching #come #fbi

One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other. ↗

— Jane Kaczmarek

#each #greatest #greatest joys #having #joys