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People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade.


David Gower


#delivery #every #form #grenade #hand

If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.


Lawrence Hargrave


#angles #apparently #attention #bird #course

Tonight will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.


Susan Cooper


#imagination

* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don’t imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking propagandist of the Soviet régime, or any other régime, and then suddenly return to mental decency. Once a whore, always a whore.


George Orwell


#hypocrisy #journalism #poland #stalin #warsaw-uprising

Funny,’ Will said, as they picked their way through. ‘Things are absolutely awful and yet people look much happier than usual. Look at them all. Bubbling.’ ‘They are English,’ Merriman said. ‘Quite right,’ said Will’s father. ‘Splendid in adversity, tedious when safe. Never content, in fact. We’re an odd lot….


Susan Cooper


#humour #the-dark-is-rising #truism #funny

Without knowing he was going to do it, Sonny smiled right at the general and said in a loud, firm voice, "It's okay. He's my brother, sir.


Dahl Edwardson


#inspirational #surprising #inspirational

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.


Christian Nestell Bovee


#enterprising #execute #method #plan #vigor

Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.


James Hillman


#back #bottle #careful #days #different

I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I've never gotten so many work offers. It's so exciting, this feeling of a new beginning after 40.


Amy Irving


#beginning #career #dedicate #enough #exciting

I didn't know who my daddy was until I was 10 or 12. Surprising as it may seem, he was living right across the street.


Terrell Owens


#daddy #i #know #living #may






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