Ch23 Quotes & Sayings

This is what's great about sports. This is what the greatest thing about sports is. You play to win the game. Hello? You play to win the game. You don't play it to just play it. That's the great thing about sports: you play to win, and I don't care if you don't have any wins. You go play to win. When you start tellin' me it doesn't matter, then retire. Get out! 'Cause it matters. — Herman Edwards

What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective. — Joseph Brodsky

But I marry myself. I take my fate as within. — Sena Jeter Naslund

The ultimate fulfillment of God's mercy in Jesus is not something that is supplied in time to correct a default in the system, but is something that is planned from all of eternity. — Alistair Begg

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines? — George Carlin

You do not attain to knowledge by remaining on the shore and watching the foaming waves, you must make the venture and cast yourself in, you must swim, alert and with all your force, even if a moment comes when you think you are losing consciousness; in this way, and in no other, do you reach anthropological insight. — Martin Buber

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so. — Coventry Patmore

The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the discipline of the New Testament, as a discipline teaching us to die to it. — Matthew Arnold

I closed my eyes and took more of those deep breaths Dad was so fond of, thinking that it was no wonder Prodigium were always getting their asses handed to them by humans. I mean, every time I had to do an intense spell, there was all this focusing, and relaxing, and picturing, and breathing...It wasn't exactly the most effective battle strategy against something like The Eye.
I should've known better than to think about The Eye,though. As soon as the name popped into my head, my control shattered.
And so did the terra-cotta pot.
Black soil rained down on my feet, and the purple flower drooped even further. I could have sworn it actually bobbed accusingly at me.
"Ugh," I groaned, as Cal quickly scooped the jagged pot out of my hands. "Sorry,but I warned you I was destructo-girl. — Rachel Hawkins

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant decipher. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable. — Chuck Palahniuk

00 11 20 14 CC Apollo 13, Houston.
00 11 20 18 CDR Go ahead, Houston.
00 11 20 19 CC Okay. Looking at our computations back here, we
show you about 55 450 and going out rapidly now.
00 11 20 33 CDR Well, Hal might be a little bit off.
00 11 20 36 CC Okay.
00 11 20 37 CMP We have a sign underneath our LEB DSKY that "my
name is Hal."
00 11 20 45 CC I can't imagine how that got there. Just remember,
you have to be nice to Hal.
00 11 20 55 CMP We will. — NASA