#plate

Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#before #beg #century #closed #contemplate

You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park. ↗

— Shawn Wayans

#out #park #plate #step #then

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. ↗

— Simone Weil

#alone #contemplate #god #him #image

You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams. ↗

— Jason Giambi

#get #going #mind #nothing #plate

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher. ↗

— Rogers Hornsby

#egotistical #every #every time #feel #hands

He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate. ↗

— Ron Atkinson

#had #plate #sliced

To contemplate is to look at shadows. ↗