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«In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly, that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the 1st place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
| Keywords:
against time, anyway, baby, ball, ball up, bounce, bounced, bounces, bouncing, crime, crisis, day off, designed, do good, enjoying, falling off, fall in, fall into place, fall in love, For any, generation, Good Work, hit, numbered, On The Ball, put off, solemnly, The Crisis, work off
«I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.»
Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Basketball Player)
| Keywords:
ball, ball up, besides, biggest, hoop, hoops, On The Ball, resource, Something Big, something else, stuff
«Politics: the art of keeping as many balls as possible up in the air at one time - while protecting your own.»
Author: Sam Attlesey
| About:
Politics
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air, as many, at one time, balls, ball over, ball up, in the air, keeping, one time, On The Ball, protecting, the art, up in the air
«The difference between men and women is that, if given the choice between saving the life of an infant or catching a fly ball, a woman will automatically choose to save the infant, without even considering if there's a man on base.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
automatically, ball, ball over, ball up, base, baser, basest, catching, choice, choose, Considering, fly, fly ball, infant, on base, On The Ball, save, saving
«The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since.»
«You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Laziness
| Keywords:
ball, ball over, ball up, imagine, laziness, On The Ball, rolling, roll over, roll up, send
«Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
ball, ball over, ball up, hides, hiding, masked, masking, On The Ball, Real Character, reveals
«Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
balls, ball up, cannon, cannons, cannon ball, contradict, contradicted, contradicting, morrow, morrows, On The Ball
«If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.»
Author: Yogi Berra
(Baseball Player, Manager)
| Keywords:
ball, ball up, come out, On The Ball, out to, park, parked