They probably haven't gone far enough, but it's a good start.


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It's still early in the season, but this has gone on long enough. It is time to start winning.
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I just couldn't wait to start another game. That was probably, to me, one of the toughest losses I'v...
JOHN TORTORELLA
Andy could probably play this week, but with fit players on the sidelines, why would we risk it?
ERNIE MERRICK
I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and dog gone it people like me.
STUART SMALLEY
In my view, prices had probably gone down too far, especially with peak demand winter season looming...
DAVID THURTELL
It's a good offer, but it's probably as far as Bank of Scotland can go. RBS will probably step in as...
ANDREW HOBSON
Don’t you ever fucking write about me! Andy hollered, and was gone.
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If you look at my stats, its probably my best spring. The guy who's playing good is the guy who's go...
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Why be an ostrich?
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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recogni...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
CALVIN TRILLIN
I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
AL FRANKEN
If that siren hadn't gone off, I'd probably still be up there.
KENNY PHILLIPS
Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a h...
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A good score should have a point of view all of its own. It should transcend all that has gone befor...
HANS ZIMMER
This has gone too far,
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From there, I don't think they got any closer. That shot by Andy Wick was probably the biggest of th...
ANDY CERRONI
Good luck trying to collect these fines. It's a start, but the prospect of prison time would probabl...
IRA MEHLMAN
We've got a couple of old heads in Andy Duncan and Mark Peters, but I'm probably the next oldest pla...
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Everything has gone well so far, but as we saw tonight, it's a one-game showdown of 60 minutes. I ex...
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Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare...
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Andy was kind enough to fly back there with me, ... Andy was there trying to help me. . . . My dad w...
GENE TAYLOR
I thought Andy Wick had a really good second half.
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PATRICK FEARON
I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world.
LESLEY ANN WARREN
That will probably be more important for its passing than for its result.
CHARLES GABRIEL
Our event is probably at its maximum now.
DICK CATRI
This thing has been very tenacious. It's probably its last gasp.
STACY STEWART
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like ...
CALVIN TRILLIN
Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
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I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still is...
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On the far side stretched the open Pacific and beyond, but the crow could not fly high enough to see...
RUTH OZEKI
We got off to a good start and built a good lead by halftime. (PR-B) wasn't hitting its shots in the...
BOB NELSON
I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
FRAN DRESCHER
This match could have gone either way. Richardson came through in many points with fine overheads bu...
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It's very likely. They probably won't just announce its required for all fliers, but they will make ...
JAMES HARPER
It is high, it is far, it is....GONE!
JOHN STERLING
I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world.
LESLEY ANN WARREN
The fact that we havent had a contract for 13 months was eventually a factor,
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CHRISTOPHER WEST
People around here are quite anxious about this and with good reason. The long and short of it is th...
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He's probably our only player who is good enough to handle that position. He's a bull.
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MARK MULDER
Never lament what gone wrong yesterday, gone is gone, but with a lesson of something good for tomorr...
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I've always thought really good artists in general are overqualified. You're paid to stand t...
PAUL GUILFOYLE
Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.
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They probably didn't know what hit them because the house is just gone. There's not even a foundatio...
GEORGE BUTLER
They probably didn't know what hit them because the house is just gone. There's not even a foundatio...
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WAYNE GRAHAM
I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leaders...
CRISTINA KIRCHNER
If they would have had 5 more minutes, it probably would have (gone) into overtime.
ERIC WEDDLE
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KATSUHIKO KODAMA
So far we seem to be off to a very good start. Clearly the two companies have different cultures but...
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I am a gypsy. I havent' had a home for a long time. Call me a homeless person - I just throw eve...
TAYLOR KINNEY
We're not going to start talking about anything but playing the next game. It's a good start. It's a...
TOMMY TUBERVILLE
I think Rod had some good players in there, and Andy will get some good players in there also. I thi...
GENE BARTOW
The testimonies we have heard so far are moving but they are not enough and that's causing us concer...
NEHAL BHUTA
Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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It's probably cliche to say this, but in my experience, people are far more alike than they are ...
ALEXANDRA FULLER
They got off to a good start. But, we didn't panic and we stayed the course.
CHARLES RAMSEY
They are off to a good start.
JASON GIBBS
If we wait until income inequality is much more severe, we will have a whole class of new superrich ...
ROBERT J. SHILLER
As far as it goes, that is probably going to be it. There are reasons for it, and we want to lay tha...
DAVE CERLANEK
We certainly havent lost any of the faith we have in the Carnival.
ANDREW FOX
It's a show Andy really likes and it was good fun watching him on it,
JAMIE MURRAY
It was a real good harvest. We kind of had a later start than normal as far as early harvest.
WADE WIMMER
It was a nice strong performance. We're trying to be as calm and collected as possible. So far, so g...
AARON LOWE
I can't remember how many fights we've had. It must be at least half a dozen good ones now, in which...
KARL DAVIES
Andy has made a decent start for us over the first four games but I need him to have a whole season ...
STUART PEARCE
They said it probably wasn't a good idea.
ANTHONY MORELLI
We've had a very good start so far, and we'll see what that means the rest of the way.
BOB KIES
Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one
HOWARD KENNETH NIXON
It's a good start. They were all good matches. Last season I didn't have enough players to field a f...
GOMER MORGAN
Andy pitched a good game. We put Jeff Ickes in a tough spot there. He's a sophomore who never pitche...
JEFF STRATTON
That whole era is gone for good and not many people will regret its passing.
LORENZO CODOGNO
I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shri...
EOIN COLFER
I'm excited. It's a fresh start for me and I probably need that.
PEJA STOJAKOVIC
It probably was more beneficial to me than it was to them, because you start to question whether you...
TUBBY SMITH
I've gone full circle and I'll probably stop here.
BRENDA TRENCH
Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler
MARGARET MITCHELL
I think we knew Baskett was good, but we didn't think they were going to utilize him as well as they...
JASON SIMPSON
In all the history of mankind, has any conqueror decided they had enough? Has any man just said, ‘...
BRANDON SANDERSON
They break up and dissipate when they start feeling the bottom. They don't last that long. They don'...
BILL TEAGUE
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are c...
WOODROW WILSON
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are c...
CHARLES DICKENS
(Sampson) recruited me for Oklahoma, but he hasn't called about Indiana. I don't know about going wa...
DARRELL ARTHUR
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
SAMUEL BUTLER
An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when intr...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of in...
MARILYN BUTLER
Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the othe...
SAMUEL BUTLER
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has s...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he...
SAMUEL BUTLER
It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came f...
SAMUEL BUTLER
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
SAMUEL BUTLER
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not se...
SAMUEL BUTLER
The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not bein...
SAMUEL BUTLER
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods
SAMUEL BUTLER
To be at all is to be religious more or less
SAMUEL BUTLER
Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underg...
SAMUEL BUTLER
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
SAMUEL BUTLER
We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
SAMUEL BUTLER