Quotes Tagged "balls"

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

You are well aware that it is not numbers or strength that bring the victories in war. No, it is when one side goes against the enemy with the gods' gift of a stronger morale that their adversaries, as a rule, cannot withstand them. I have noticed this point too, my friends, that in soldiering the people whose one aim is to keep alive usually find a wretched and dishonorable death, while the people who, realizing that death is the common lot of all men, make it their endeavour to die with honour, somehow seem more often to reach old age and to have a happier life when they are alive. These are facts which you too should realize (our situation demands it) and should show that you yourselves are brave men and should call on the rest to do likewise.

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.

I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.

I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.

I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did.

I'm a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I'm invited to all the inaugural balls.

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.

In the beginning, I was planning to end 'Dragon Ball' when all seven Dragon Balls had been collected.

We seem to want one vehicle to carry people and soccer balls and hay bales.

I've had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys.

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

I have a karaoke lounge in my house, complete with a tiki bar and hula-girl lamps and disco balls.