#rain

I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench. ↗

— Satchel Paige

#bench #down #generally #gently #i

Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane. ↗

— Abraham Pais

#bit #crazy #did #even #forty

I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training. ↗

— Jim Palmer

#cursed #doing #fundamentals #hate #i

An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#chemicals #control #could #critical #derail

'Singin' in the Rain' was the one for me. Yeah. I mean, Gene Kelly could just sway and never fall. He'd just sway and sway as he danced. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#danced #fall #gene #gene kelly #i

Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures. ↗

— Alessandro Del Piero

#ambition #between #brings #comfortable #everything

Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

#aware #lay #me #prepare #providence

In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#both #choice #city #cold #first

I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity. ↗

— Rob Portman

#american #create #crisis #economy #entrepreneurial

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#courage #disinterested #government #intelligence #know