It's going to be a gut check to see what we're made of.
Rafer Alston
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After last Friday, it was kind of a gut check for us to see what we were made of.
DAVE KLINGEL Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI We made plays at gut-check times.
BRUCE WEBER That was a gut check. That's what we were looking for after the last two weeks.
BRANDON ROY Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has com...
OPRAH WINFREY Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We knew we were decent. When the kids called the meeting, it was gut check time. We became so much b...
BRIAN CHAMPION To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA Last week was a gut check, and there's no way we were going to feel that way again this week. I'd cu...
JARED NEPA I think this is going to go down as a gut check for the Miami Hurricane program. They're at a low po...
ALLEN WALLACE The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD They were key plays, and I got open. I think the second half was a gut check for us.
ABYEE MARACIGAN I’m the lady by day, and I’m Gaga by night. And I’m always going to be that way, because it’...
LADY GAGA To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN Yeah, we're still in the playoff hunt, but it's still a big hill to climb to make it. We probably ha...
RAFER ALSTON That was a tough one to lose. That's a game that should have been won in regulation. We were up thre...
RAFER ALSTON We had good shots down the stretch. We just didn't make them.
RAFER ALSTON It was a matter of stopping them and making them go to their third of fourth option.
RAFER ALSTON Skip to my Lou.
RAFER ALSTON The record is still going to look lousy. But it shows without all the injuries what the record could...
RAFER ALSTON You're supposed to get better. When other teams turn it up a notch or two levels, we turn it down a ...
RAFER ALSTON You just got to start with a win. That way the snowball effect can start going uphill instead of dow...
RAFER ALSTON (The last foul) was game-changing. He shoots it short, we get the rebound and the pressure's on them...
RAFER ALSTON We were all over the place. We were in passing lanes, we were deflecting passes, getting our hands o...
RAFER ALSTON You're a professional, you have pride, and you have a contract to go out and play hard. But we do ha...
RAFER ALSTON It's sickening to watch it. It's sickening to be a part of it, knowing you're out there for big minu...
RAFER ALSTON We should be 3-0, there are no ifs, ands or buts about it.
RAFER ALSTON We were all lacking intensity. We had a gut check and we started feeding off each other for open sho...
BRAD MEYER What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.
ELIZABETH GEORGE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you...
OGDEN NASH The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD What this tournament represents is a mid-season gut-check. There are 16 good teams in this tournamen...
KAREN ANDERSON To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI Even early in the season this was a huge gut check,
CUTTINO MOBLEY It's never happened in this organization since I've been here, so it's going to be a gut-check. We h...
ALEX TANGUAY Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Coaches are creatures of habit. I knew a coach who got a deal going where his players had to run a m...
ABE LEMONS Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE So if you were going to give a business presentation in Scandinavia, you would give it to your relat...
DARIN BRUMBY There were times tonight when this team could have folded its tent. We're not as good as we think we...
KARL DORRELL How to be a Poet (to remind myself)
Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people...
ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T...
THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
MICHAELA D. If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS... There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN The thing I was the most disappointed in (Sunday) was basically the fundamentals of our team. Our ta...
DOM CAPERS Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Then his heart made up his mind.
LINDSAY MATTICK
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