#catching

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#catching #discovered #ever #i #miss

You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public. ↗

— James McGreevey

#american public #between #catching #elected #elected officials

When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver. ↗

— Joe Theismann

#i #i can #me #mom #out

The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#before #catching #done #ever #fact

As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of other stylists have tried to steal Cinna and Portia's idea of illuminating their tributes. The electric-light-studded outfits from District 3, where they make electronics, at least make sense. But what are the livestock keepers from Distric 10, who are dressed as cows, doing with flaming belts? Broiling themselves? Pathetic. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#city-circle #katniss #katniss-and-peeta #panem #the-capitol

but it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss #meaning #mocking-jay #peeta #spolier

I don't like self-righteous people," I say. "What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#haymitch #katniss #peeta #katniss

I don't know what I expected from my first meeting with Peeta after the announcement. A few hugs and kisses. A little comfort maybe. Not this. I turn to Haymitch. "Don't worry, I'll get you more liquor. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#haymitch #katniss #peeta #katniss

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

— Suzanne Collins

#haymitch #katniss #katniss

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

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