#hand

We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#breaks #country #end #england #hand

I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own personal style is rather than feeling dictated to by shops. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#dictated #fashion #feeling #find #i

With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison. ↗

— John Spratt

#alone #army #confront #crime #crime rate

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand! ↗

— Daniel Boone

#bid #blessings #commerce #descending #hand

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#any #bad #fool #genius #good

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#faster #hand #home #only #reader

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#bachelor #buying #furniture #like #marrying

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#ancient #christ #christianity #down #errors

Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so Wild Flag was not a sure thing, it was a 'maybe,' a 'possibility.' But after a handful of practice sessions, spread out over a period of months, I think we all realized that we could be greater than the sum of our parts. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#cannot #chemistry #could #flag #forced

The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#basic #because #collapses #culture #embraces