Catching Quotes - Page 13

• Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Girl, Education, Women

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• Christianity has confused catching mice with the real work of the Kingdom, which is more like hunting lions.

  Leslie Ludy

  Confused, Real, Hunting

  Eric Ludy, Leslie Ludy (2009). “Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God”, p.6, Harvest House Publishers

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• I was so raw I didn't know about the Lambeau Leap-a Packer player celebrates catching a touchdown by leaping into the stands. It was started by Leroy Butler years before and has been copied by players all over the league. Don't be fooled, though. The only legitimate Lambeau Leap is celebrated by a Packer at Lambeau Field.

  Donald Driver

  Player, Years, League

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• My message to businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is one thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDS, and that is the wife.

  Edwina Currie

  Country, Sex, Wife

  Speech at Runcorn, 12 Feb. 1987, in Guardian 13 Feb. 1987

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• I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one’s guard, catching every glance, the significance of every word, guessing at intentions, frustrating their plots, pretending to be tricked, and suddenly, with a shove, upturning the whole enormous and arduously built edifice of their cunning and schemes—that’s what I call life.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Christian, Blood, Enemy

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• The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man's statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. If I know that the teacher is wrong, and say nothing, then I remain the only one who knows, and that gives me an advantage over those who believe the teacher.

  Orson Scott Card

  Teacher, Mistake, Believe

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.79, Macmillan

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• Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Wings, White

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.34, Harvard University Press

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• Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.

  Ray Bradbury

  People, Disbelief

  "A Miracle of Rare Device". Playboy, January 1962.

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• I could easily fill up each week with going to see debuts of friends' compositions alone. When you add in all of the bands I'm interested in catching and all of the improvisers that I still love, it gets almost impossibly daunting. I try to do as much as I can.

  David First

  Trying, Add, Band

  "The Only Late is Never". Interview with Marc Masters, Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. November 12, 2010.

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• There are so many dreams beyond our nights, and so much sunshine beyond our gray walls. But we can't see it when we stay at home. There is so much sky above our roof. Is the door so old that it won't open, or are we at home because we're afraid of catching a chill?

  Francoise Hardy

  Dream, Wall, Home

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• The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up.

  James Laver

  Fashion, Shifting, Pursue

  James Laver (1969). “Modesty in dress: an inquiry into the fundamentals of fashion”

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• My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.

  Chinua Achebe

  Jobs, Book, Mean

  Chinua Achebe, Bernth Lindfors (1997). “Conversations with Chinua Achebe”, p.19, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The problem with our art form: it's so ephemeral, and catching performances can be so difficult... the important thing is what happens at the moment of performance, for the people who made the effort to be there: it lives with them.

  Judith Weir

  Art, People, Effort

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• Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of himself in the various mirrors in the house - the mirror in the bathroom or the mirror in his bedroom, still lit from above by a single accusatory light bulb - are almost appallingly raw.

  Andrew Graham-Dixon

  Powerful, Self, Mirrors

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• Little kids learn to walk by falling. They fall forward and eventually they start catching themselves. All walking is controlled falling. It’s the same with success. You learn by failing. Success is just controlled failing.

  Derek Rydall

  Fall, Kids, Littles

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• ...finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.

  Paolo Giordano

  Light, Hands, Space

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• He thought about all the holes in him, the blank places, the voids where others felt things. When it came down to it, he was really just a screen, more empty than solid, his emotions blowing through him, only angry catching and holding.

  J.R. Ward

  Void, Emotion, Empty

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.1530, Penguin

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• I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so long--discovering it was merely metal, wrapped in cloth. It wasn't alive; it had no spirit. It was fake.

  Anne Lamott

  Long, Fake, Rabbits

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.304, Penguin

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• I love to snuggle up on the sofa wrapped in my duvet watching old black and white films, and catching up with friends and family on the phone.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Family, Black And White, Phones

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• People of all ages, including children, have been exposed to clever and eye-catching advertising material, .. All that will now change. Tobacco advertising is going to end, and it's going to end soon,.

  Frank Dobson

  Children, Clever, Eye

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• To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family."

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Father, Science

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.

  Douglas Adams

  Science, Mind, Impossible

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.683, Del Rey

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• Until I became a parent, I thought children just naturally knew how to catch a ball, that catching was an instinctive biological reflex that all children are born with, like knowing how to operate a remote control or getting high fevers in distant airports.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.

  John Ruskin

  Sarcastic, Thinking, Opinion

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• Come away; poverty's catching.

  Aphra Behn

  Poverty

  1678 The Rover, pt.2, act1.

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