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BUZZ PETERSON We weren't concerned about what GM was doing. We were concerned with what the consumers were doing. ... DON ROMANO Unfortunately a couple of calls didn't go our way and we lose again. They were doing the same thing ... FREDDY ADU There were a bunch of things we really liked right off the bat about a police precinct. We loved how... DANIEL J. GOOR The supervisors and FROST had requested a private meeting at the end of the review process to discus... TOM RATHBUN I was happy with that. We were in a funk for better part of three quarters and (Union Local) had a l... KURT CLIFFORD She is sugar, curiosity, and rain. E. LOCKHART But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned w... JUDITH VIORST But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned w... HENRY S. HASKINS One thing we uncovered was the attitude that 'Africa's always a mess' and 'what are we going to do a... 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KRIS DRAPER I started doing stand-up on my own and I met Julian within a year, and straight away we started to g... NOEL FIELDING Actually we did very well. We were battling lousy weather. Our main thing was trying not to get hurt... BILL FRITZ It was an unfortunate series of events; they were trying to do a job. DONNA CORDOVA We were trying to learn how it was to hunt. The longer sticks went farther. AMANDA LESEMAN Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We felt that Inchcape was just trying to do too many things and that doing one thing would be far be... STEVE CLARK I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different w... MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM The low scores reflect how high the intensity was in this game. But we played well in the first half... JUDE TEMPLE We were just really excited to play them again. We hated to lose the [Ivy title], but in a lot of wa... DAVE TALBOTT In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of... DEAN KOONTZ That's a big chunk of who we are and what we do, but everybody else filled in the gaps. It was almos... ANTONIO DANIELS I was wrong, but we were in a sprint for survival. We were just little people trying to get recognit... CURTIS SLIWA My supervisor came down and we looked how the thing is. People are going to think we didn't do anyth... DAN FORD That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked ... JANET FITCH What we try to do with our offense is get open using cuts and back-door screens and really spread th... JOHN ARTINGER We have only been able to observe this market when the economy was doing well and personal incomes w... IRINA PENKINA The big thing was how focused we were for this week. We knew it would be a good game and we prepared... GREG MCANALLY I wasn't really thinking about it until it was time. During the game, it was frustrating, because it... BRETT BRACKETT There were layers of reasons why we did the re-recordings, but one was that we could hand over our t... JON KING Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future. CRAIG GROESCHEL I watched the enormity of the clouds for several minutes. What I wanted to experience in the water, ... BARRY LóPEZ She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew t... MARGARET MCMULLAN Something happened during Matt's talk. When I sat down I was one person, but by the time he was done... SUSAN AUTEN We were trying to pin them deep. And we just had a breakdown in our coverage. The films may show som... DENNIS ROLAND Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about o... ANN PATCHETT After the season it was, we were approached and (it was) something we had to think about and what I ... KRIS CHUCKO With this, it was, yes, we were excited about it but it was something new that we hadn't done before... ETHAN MENTZER It was a really good game. We played very smart and did what we had to do to win. Ridgeview is a goo... HOLLY PICKENS See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART We weren't concerned about what GM was doing. We were concerned with what the consumers were doing. DON ROMANO It was a mental mistake on our part. We were one short, and we tried to set it up again during the t... BRIAN LANGLINAIS We wanted to sit and enjoy the game, but we were just glad we were here to do what we needed to do. ... BRANDON EVANS I think in the very beginning we all were really pushing the ball, and Dee was doing a really good j... CAROLINE WILLIAMS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We knew what they were going to bring, but the hard part was trying to take away what they wanted to... GLENN BILLINGS Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word th... SARAH DESSEN It was nerve-racking, but I'll take it. We were doing the right thing, making the right move. TODD BODINE We were trying to tie the game. We didn't execute the play very well. It only works if it is done ri... DEAN OWENS He was doing a great job. We were just hitting the ball into the ground. I wouldn't say we were beat... DON MONEY Both kids were gone, and we decided this was something we could do together. We got some of our frie... BETH JOHNSON We were just knocking on the door and we came so close to winning this thing. With all they had to o... GAIL KLOSTER It was heartfelt, it was heartbreaking. It was extreme joy, it was bone-crushing grief. It was fiery... S.C. STEPHENS I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked wel... ERNEST HEMINGWAY We were trying to do too much at times. Fort Dodge wants to play an up-tempo game and push it, and w... AUSTEN ARNAUD Indeed it was surreal, but it was real, ... We were planning what to do in case there was an eruptio... CECIL MURRAY We were all finally pleased that one of the liars was exposed. But how many more liars do we have to... CINDY SHEEHAN We were in dire need of something like that, and it was an exciting thing for us. But as time went o... HOMER THOMPSON Both teams were well matched and played pretty well. One of the things we wanted to do this season w... BOB ERICKSON It's fair to say that some people wondered why we were investing $300 million in our infrastructure,... BILL CURRY It was fun because we were all doing well, not necessarily because we were beating somebody that bad... DUSTAN MOHR What we were trying to do was put decision-making back between local teachers and local school board... BARBARA KERR Even if it was just a water balloon, even if they didn't realize how much damage they were doing, th... BETH MARTIN I was almost ready to call it quits - sick of doing a job and then being back on the unemployment li... JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the f... RAY MANZAREK It was 1-1 going into the third. We were doing great. Then they got two quick ones and we could not ... JASON BACASHIHUA Going into that stadium and getting a tie was phenomenal, ... That was the best we have played as a ... MARCELO BALBOA Not particularly. The conduct was fairly open and notorious. It was no great secret what we were doi... CHRIS LOEHR We are sorry we had to do it. 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His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us alw... ELISABETH ELLIOT George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Think of the self that God has given as an acorn. It is a marvelous little thing, a perfect shape, p... ELISABETH ELLIOT I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casu... ELISABETH ELLIOT He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really t... ELISABETH ELLIOT The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled... ELISABETH ELLIOT The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-... ELISABETH ELLIOT Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God. JIM ELLIOT When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unne... ELISABETH ELLIOT He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missiona... ELISABETH ELLIOT There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw... ELISABETH ELLIOT The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual d... ELISABETH ELLIOT Single life may be only a stage of a life’s journey, but even a stage is a gift. God may replace i... ELISABETH ELLIOT If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to... ELISABETH ELLIOT To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And t... ELISABETH ELLIOT Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lie... ELISABETH ELLIOT I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Whoever said "Marriage is a 50-50 proposition" laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any ot... AUSTIN ELLIOT There's no way he's supposed to even catch the ball, dribble it, spin and shoot a shot and make a sh... ELLIOT WASHINGTON Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God. JIM ELLIOT This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive. ELISABETH ELLIOT I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What... JANE ELLIOT No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the ... JANE ELLIOT I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adole... TUCKER ELLIOT I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. ... ELISABETH ELLIOT [Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blu... ELISABETH ELLIOT Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. ELISABETH ELLIOT I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are... JANE ELLIOT Age is how we determine how valuable you are. JANE ELLIOT I get the same results with the exercise in Berlin or in the Netherlands that I do in the U.S. or Au... JANE ELLIOT I watched what had been marvelous, cooperative, wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vici... JANE ELLIOT We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put i... JANE ELLIOT No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the ... JANE ELLIOT My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode. JANE ELLIOT The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word fr... JIM ELLIOT You're moving muscles and improving circulation in areas you can't when you're in a wheelchair on la... JIM ELLIOT "The most meanest and depraved of men come out on top, and women flock to these men.Their evil acts ... ELLIOT RODGER Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age ELLIOT PAUL It's not just one crop in one region. It's multiple crops in most of the state that have been affect... DAVE ELLIOT