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Related Our inexperience showed. That is something we have to work on if we want to be an NCAA team or a com... EZRIA PARSONS The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL We have a right to life, not on it. DANIEL MELGAçO So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we... DEYTH BANGER Just to see them grow as a team, to join Conference USA, now in the Big East, it's great. To me, it'... PETER HUGHES We have a pretty young team and with this being our first year in the Big East, I believe we are doi... DAVE UHRICH Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK Voter apathy is a civic abdication. CHARLES M. BLOW Normally, we would have played another Division 1-A (team), hopefully ... someone in the middle of t... BILL DOBA If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL Our inexperience has hurt us this year, but we are still teaching the system, and this team has the ... GABBY LISELLA It's Conference USA, but the Big East. CHADD MOORE We think we have a very talented team, but we think we also have a team which has a lot of character... DENNY BRUCKERT The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Mayfield's a real solid team up front stopping the run. With some of our kids out, we knew we were g... BOBBY CAMPOS We came out with the energy to end it in the third. We survived a bit in the second, but I thought w... BRUCE MARSHALL This is a big win for us. We feel like we have the athletes to play with anyone in the conference. GROVER BATTLE Sometimes maybe we want them to get in a little bit bigger hurry, but you just have to understand th... DAVID BERRY Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN This coming road trip, we have three Big East games. We hope to come back with three wins, but we ne... BECKY EMMERS It was a tough, tough tournament. Obviously, our inexperience showed up a little bit, but we fought ... BOBBY DOUGLAS We still think we're a good team. We didn't get blown out of here (in Cleveland), for one. We're cap... VINCE CARTER We went with a little different starting lineup and we were a little out of rhythm to start. We are ... TERRI SCHRISHUHN We are looking forward to the season. We have a lot of experienced players back and a lot of talente... DAVE PIEPENBRINK We have to be optimistic. This team has played pretty well lately. The thing with team sports is tha... CHAD LAVIN We shouldn't fall off like that and we did a little bit. Maybe we weren't prepared. We have to work ... CHAD SPENCE The farmer in us makes us do the things we do SOTONYE ANGA We came out a little timid, a little tentative. But (against Flanagan) we came out and told (the gir... ZACH KEENE It is different with it being a rivalry. We feel we have the better team. We have something not only... ANDRE PAYNE This is the most difficult schedule that we have had since I've been head coach here. We are playing... DEANN CRAFT We think that there's a little bit of profit taking [with General Dynamics], maybe some of the momen... CHARLES WHITE You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER We are really very lucky to have so many fantastic brands. But to grow them we should not be too muc... BERNARD ARNAULT Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It st... PATRICK EWING I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M Conference USA has been a terrific affiliation for us the last couple years, we want to make Confere... ERIC HYMAN All year long I was worried about if we were gonna go out and show our youth. We did that a little b... HUTTON JONES The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER That was huge in the game. We got in a hurry and panicked a little bit. We should have been more pat... DARNELL LAZARE We didn't get physically out-manned up front. We were a little hesitant in the first quarter but I t... CHRIS CAMERON He is enrolled, and he's with us up here. We just have to get him in shape, and maybe teach him a li... CHRIS CHANEY I'm not worried about the rest of the season. We have a very deep team in the America East. We will ... LESLEY SHEEHAN He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY This is a wake-up call. It's (the PVL) a tough league. This group has a lot of fortitude. I think we... DAVE MOLINA Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba... DEYTH BANGER That helps a guy grow up in a hurry. This sport will make you grow up in a hurry. JEFF HAMMOND It's the imperfections that make things beautiful JENNY HAN I think a true conference schedule, with as good a league as we have – we lead the nation in atten... BO RYAN On paper, this is the most talented team I've ever had. There's still another pedestal to achieve [t... DENNIS DAY We have a very young but talented team. We need to have big success this year for bigger goals for t... DANIEL GONZALEZ We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We have a youthful team and sometimes youthful teams show inexperience under pressure. Even though w... BRIAN TOMPKINS We've had about nine days off and we have a virus going around on the team, so some of our starters ... JEFF NEWHALL We'll have to grow up in a hurry. When we got tired we started making penalties that cost us. When y... JOE THORNTON No one person is to blame for something like that. We gave up as corner kick and we were not able to... MARIE MUHVIC This is our time. We believe we are the best basketball team out there. We have a very talented grou... BILL LAIMBEER It's great to start 1-0 in Conference USA. Now we need a big road win. JASON FORTE We practiced these situations and to not execute in the game, it's frustrating. Fortunately, this is... RENEE MONTGOMERY We were right in there with Penn State and Georgetown, which was awesome. We may not have come out w... ALEXIS ETOW We were just a little too casual. Just a little too casual on defense, not quite boxing out enough, ... JEN NIEBLING There is a farmer in every person. It is the farmer in you that makes you sow and reap SOTONYE ANGA With this kind of team, we're going to have to play very well and not have to try and play catch-up.... BRUCE MARSHALL With the bye week, we probably lost a little bit of that momentum. We were in one of those zones -- ... BILL COWHER These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M I think it comes from being more excited and pumping each other up more in the locker room, and we t... MAGGIE GIBSON We struggled with our shooting. We have to play better to beat a powerhouse team like Thatcher. This... COACH KIMBERLY EAST We may not have a choice in who we fall in love with~ But we do have a choice & are responsible for ... BJ MORIN Last year we were in the shoes they're wearing this year. We went into their stadium with nothing to... RYAN HARRIS The (lack of size) is something we're going to have to deal with for the season. Did we play well? I... JOE CACCIATORE I think that it just recharges your battery a little bit when you finally have your work give you a ... CHRIS GOBRECHT In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and ... URSULA K. LE GUIN It's tough to concentrate on other teams when they're not in your conference and you are struggling ... GERRY MCNAMARA You never want to forget where you came from, and for this team, remembering November is a very impo... JAMIE THOMPSON With a young squad, you have to constantly keep small goals in front of them. We want to make it pas... TIM ABNEY 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON This is my fourth year in Cup. I was settling in with a team that has typically run a little bit bet... CASEY MEARS From being in this state I knew what was out here and knew they could run. They may have a little bi... LARRY FEDORA We just wanted to contain them. I think, getting tired, we kind of let up on the outside a little bi... EMILY HAUPTLI I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a... NAJWA ZEBIAN We had a lot of fight in us, but we're struggling. We're in a groove and we have to get out of it, a... AIMEE LONIGRO Obviously there were some good parts; we were up 20. But the glaring similarity to last game is we l... DAVID WESLEY We were talking about, in the room, worrying about our game as a team. After you clinch a (East) div... ANDY CHIODO We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! ABHISHEK KUMAR Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the dif... REBECCA GOLDSTEIN We want it to be up tempo with our athletes. We try to be up tempo and get up and down the court. In... DENA SIEVERS Just to have that year of experience under your belt with the pistol offense is amazing. Now, we are... CALEB SPENCER The Big 12 is always looked at as a powerhouse conference, and if we are to win this game it would g... JEFF BALLARD That's the thing with Dell Rapids, you can't let them get out to a fast start. We certainly couldn't... BYRON UTTER Again, we are young so we will have errors. That is inexperience. But they all have enough playing e... KRISTY WESELOH A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Our youth we can have but to-day;
We may always find time to grow old. ANTHONY BERKELEY (A.B. COX) (USED PSEUDONYM FRANCIS ILES) The most athletic team there is in this conference tournament. In order for Texas College to win, we... ANDRE PAYNE We played with a lot of determination, everyone on the team. We played teams that were more talented... LIZ SHIMEK
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We were twelve RICK RIORDAN He had no idea where the stereotype of dumb giggly blondes came from. Ever since he'd met Annabeth a... RICK RIORDAN I could have killed you.” “Or I could have killed you,” Percy said. Jason shrugged.... RICK RIORDAN I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? Yo... RICK RIORDAN Argh!" Thalia pushed me, and a shock went through my body that blew me backward ten feet into the wa... RICK RIORDAN This is Annabeth,” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people. RICK RIORDAN You drool when you sleep. RICK RIORDAN Hey, can I see that sword you were using?" I showed him Riptide, and explained how it turned fr... RICK RIORDAN I'm calm," Rachel insisted. "Every time I'm around you, some monsters attack us. What's to be nervou... RICK RIORDAN Remind me again-why do you hate me so much?" I don't hate you." Could've foole... RICK RIORDAN Leo: Rainbows. Very macho. Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the... RICK RIORDAN It's okay,” he said. “We're together.” He didn't say you're okay , or we're alive ... RICK RIORDAN Monkey bar," Annabeth said. "I'm great at these." She leaped onto to the first rung and start swingi... RICK RIORDAN She raised an eyebrow. "You got something to say to me, Seaweed Brain?" You'd probably ki... RICK RIORDAN Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. "Y... RICK RIORDAN Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked. "It only works on wild animals.... RICK RIORDAN Percy: Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right? Annabeth: Come back alive,... RICK RIORDAN You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?" "Not even a little bit." I showed him that I ... RICK RIORDAN What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?" "I don't know. B... RICK RIORDAN The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They w... RICK RIORDAN A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He... RICK RIORDAN Percy (to Annabeth): If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick yo... RICK RIORDAN Dreams like a podcast, Downloading truth in my ears. They tell me cool stuff." "Apoll... RICK RIORDAN Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderf... RICK RIORDAN It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one. RICK RIORDAN What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vos... RICK YANCEY Rachel: You're a half-blood, too? Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about? RICK RIORDAN I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?" "Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple." "Bu... RICK RIORDAN My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding stude... RICK RIORDAN Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons... RICK RIORDAN Hermes smiled. "I knew a boy once ... oh, younger than you by far. A mere baby, really."Her... RICK RIORDAN It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inv... RICK RIORDAN Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper. "Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole." RICK RIORDAN I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mor... RICK RIORDAN You’re not the only one,” he says through gritted teeth. “My twelve-year-old sister died in my... RICK YANCEY A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve. RICK RIORDAN Very slowly using two fingers, Annabeth drew her dagger. Instead of dropping it, she tossed it as fa... RICK RIORDAN I said hello to the poodle. RICK RIORDAN Nico, you can do this," Jason said. "It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter." RICK RIORDAN Love is on every side, Cupid said. And no one's side. Don't ask what Love can do for you.<... RICK RIORDAN