I Quotes
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“In baseball, there is something electrifying about the big leagues. I had read so much about Stan Musial, Ted Williams and Jackie Robinson. I had put those guys on a pedestal. They were something special. I really thought they put their pants on different, rather than one leg at a time.”
“In baseball, there's always the next day”
“In baseball, when you get into the batter's box, that's it. It's just you. It's one man against the world. All that matters in that moment is your individual achievement and your individual skill. There is literally nothing that anyone else on your team can do for you. Hell, they're all sitting on the bench, waiting to see what happens, just like the fans in the crowd! It's just you and your bat. And the ball.”
Source: Boy Toy
“In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.”
“In baseball, you don't know nothin'.”
Source: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
“In baseball, you don't know nothing.”
Source: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
“In baseball, you're always moving people around.”
“In baseball, you've got to keep working.”
“In basic microeconomics textbooks, even when welfare gets attention, it is in the domain of efficient outcomes. Redistribution through taxes is first introduced as a big ‘no go’ domain with concepts of deadweight loss.
However, inefficiency out of market behaviour and market outcomes is plainly ignored and overlooked. Approximately, $600 million daily is needed to feed every extremely poor person, yet about $2.75 billion value of food is wasted every day, according to Food and Agriculture Organization. Consequently, 9 million people die every year from hunger while one-third of all food is wasted. This gross inefficiency in economic resources is not captured or discussed. According to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, globally, per capita food supply increased from about 2,200 kcal per day in the early 1960s to more than 2,903 kcal per day by 2014. But under capitalism, the market allocates goods including even food to only those who can pay its price. It does not make a difference whether the willingness to pay is less than the price due to ‘preference’ or due to ‘poverty’. Yet, mainstream economics claims consumer sovereignty.”
Source: Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
“In basic terms, civilization is dependent upon the spontaneity and fulfillment of the individual. Your civilization is in sad straits. Not because you are allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you are denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise.”
“In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.”
“In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way. Of course, it's no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you're going to win or lose and focus your full attention on what's happening right this moment.”
“In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.”
“In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.”
“In Bastet's Thrall by Stewart Stafford
A sight unseen,
Eyes of feline green,
Make me do their bidding.
That whiskered mask,
In adulation basks,
Affection makes a killing.
Great but small,
In Bastet's thrall,
It dares me with a licking.
In regal fur,
A seductive purr,
And tail brazenly quitting.
© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.”
“In Battle, as in charity, it is better to give than to receive.”
Source: Trapped
“In battle, it is not the strongest or the bravest or those with the greater numbers who win. Victory belongs to the side that best understands the price of defeat.”
Source: The Conspiracy at Meru
“In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.”
“In battle, It’s not our enemy that defeats us but our fears.”
“In battle, Musa told Tilo, enemies can’t break your spirit, only friends can”
Source: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
“In battle, the enemy takes you prisoner; and in peace, love and music!”
“In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a battlefield - however despicable - are guaranteed a trial by our Constitution. No one argues that Americans who commit treason shouldn't be punished. The maximum penalty for treason is death. But the Constitution specifies the process necessary to convict.”
“In battle, do not think that you have to win. Think rather that you do not have to lose.”
“In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won.”
“In battle, one must adhere to one's beliefs.”
“In battle, the ONLY bullets that count are those that hit.”
“In battle, topography is fate.”
Source: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy
“In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.”
“In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.”
Source: Churchill on men and events: a selection from
“In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.”
Source: Caste Must Go and the Sin of Untouchability
“In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath.”
“In beautiful things St. Francis saw Beauty itself, and through His vestiges imprinted on creation he followed his Beloved everywhere, making from all things a ladder by which he could climb up and embrace Him who is utterly desirable.”
“In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious nonsense of Lamarr's movies.”
“In beauty faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow.”
Source: Fables ... In one volume complete
“In beauty lies hidden pain; in pain, hidden freedom.”
Source: The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories
“In beauty may I walk,
All day may I walk,
Beauty before me, with it I wander,
Beauty behind me, with it I wander,
Beauty beloe me, with it I wander,
Beauty above me, with it I wander
On the beautiful trail I am,
With it I wander.”
Source: Poltergeist
“In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.”
Source: Tales of Mystery and Imagination
“In Because, Joseph Riippi says he wants this book to be ‘a love letter, a prayer, a purge’ but it actually becomes even more than that. It’s a bursting-at-the-seams dream that cradles so many wishes and passions into its wide scope that it constantly surprises with unexpected turns and brilliant thoughts. It transcends its simple mantra-like structure and becomes a reverberating world of beauty and wonder.”
“In becoming a whole person, the grateful leper was healed inside as well as on the outside. That day nine lepers were healed skin deep, but only one had the faith to be made whole. The tenth leper [was] changed eternally by [his] faith in the Savior and the healing power of his atonement.”
“In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.”
Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison
“In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish.” (161)”
Source: How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
“In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish.”
“In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.”
Source: Among women
“In becoming forcibly and essentially aware of my mortality, and of what I wished and wanted for my life, however short it might be, priorities and omissions became strongly etched in a merciless light and what I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid? To question or to speak as I believed could have meant pain, or death. But we all hurt in so many different ways, all the time, and pain will either change, or end. Death, on the other hand, is the final silence. And that might be coming quickly, now, without regard for whether I had ever spoken what needed to be said, or had only betrayed myself into small silences, while I planned someday to speak, or waited for someone else's words. And I began to recognize a source of power within myself that comes from the knowledge that while it is most desirable not to be afraid, learning to put fear into a perspective gave me great strength.
I was going to die, if not sooner then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.”
Source: The Cancer Journals
“In becoming inclusive we become human.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“In becoming one with people, even if you lose your language, along with every last trace of your so-called cultural background, that's not a loss, but an actual fulfillment of life.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“In becoming part of the Body of Christ, sickness should have no more mastery over us than it had over the Body of Christ when He was on the earth.”
“In becoming the universe God abdicated. He destroyed himself as God. He turned what he had been, his true self, into nullity and thereby forfeited the Godlike qualities which pertained to him. The universe which he has become is also his grave. He has no control in it or over it. God, as God, is dead.”
Source: The Survivors
“In bed as I close my eyes, I wonder if the beginning of time and the end of time are the same thing, and the distance between seconds is really as long as the distance between stars. Maybe this is what it's like to be inside the mind of God. The past and the future mean nothing, and the time is always now.”
Source: Kaleidoscope
“In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.”