#si

We knew that if we had to win the World Cup, the defensive side of the game had to be better, which means bowlers will have to bowl tight and we will have to field better. ↗

— Ricky Ponting

#bowl #bowlers #cup #defensive #field

Why me?" she asked, holding on to him. "Because you cared," he whispered. "You cared so much for your people, it broke your heart to see the pack in ruins. You cared so much for your mother, you risked your life for hers. You cared enough to save someone who wanted you dead. And because you walk like a queen. ↗

— Annette Curtis Klause

#love #reasons-why #life

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#attentive #give #his #laws #like

All the real things in Russia are done in the villages. ↗

— Ernest Poole

#real #real things #russia #things #villages

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics. ↗

— John Pople

#branches #changed #could #follow #had

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie. ↗

— Cole Porter

#hair #his #lassie #may #sister

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. ↗

— Jane Porter

#brightness #happiness #heart #itself #kindred

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#abuse #against #been #care #destroy

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god. ↗

— Beilby Porteus

#conqueror #everyone #god #kill #man

There has never been a campaign where there hasn't been sniping from the outside and second-guessing. I hear the same sometimes from the Democratic side in terms of President Obama's campaign, so that's to be expected. ↗

— Rob Portman

#campaign #democratic #expected #hasn #hear