Finals Quotes - Page 39

• I never make forecasts but whoever wins that game will win the final.

  Ken Bates

  Football, Winning, Games

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• I'm sure Spurs will get another opportunity, hopefully before the final whistle.

  Steve Claridge

  Football, Opportunity, Spurs

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• We'll have more football later. Meanwhile, here are the highlights from the Scottish Cup final.

  Gary Newbon

  Football, Cups, Scottish

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• We knew we just had to win the heat to get in a good spot for the finals. We didn't want to push too hard for this morning to make sure we're not tired tonight. We want to be fresh for tonight because we know the other teams will be fresh.

  Samantha Cheverton

  Morning, Team, Tired

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• We're all hoping to drop at least a few seconds in the finals. There's a lot of girls that didn't even swim this morning that will be racing us tonight, so we are going to be in the mindset that we are still just as fresh.

  Brittany MacLean

  Girl, Morning, Swimming

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• We saw that he plays with his heart too. He obviously loves the game so much and was distraught to lose in the final. Seeing him cry nearly got me going too.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Heart, Games

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• He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up, gradually, a complete unit of consciousness. And each unit of consciousness is the living unit of that great social, religious, philosophic idea towards which humankind, like an organism seeking its final form, is laboriously growing.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Education, Religious, Building Up

  D. H. Lawrence, David Farmer, David R. Farmer, Lindeth Vasey, John Worthen (1987). “Women in Love”, p.495, Cambridge University Press

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• If the final decision for the salvation of fallen sinners were left in the hands of fallen sinners, we would despair all hope that anyone would be saved.

  R. C. Sproul

  Hands, Decision, Despair

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.176, Hendrickson Publishers

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• I'm opposed to the death penalty not because I think it's unconstitutional per se-although I think it's been applied in ways that are unconstitutional-but it really is a moral view, and that is that the taking of life is not the way to handle even the most significant of crimes...Who amongst anyone is not above redemption? I think we have to be careful in executing final judgment. The one thing my faith teaches me-I don't get to play God. I think you are short-cutting the whole process of redemption...I don't want to be the person that stops that process from taking place.

  Jay Sekulow

  Cutting, Thinking, Views

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• The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment because it is so final. The human life is ended and the executed person is deprived of the opportunity to change, to restore the harm done or compensate for it.

  Dalai Lama

  Revenge, Opportunity, Punishment

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• And you want to know why track and field is dying in this country? Kids today can watch Kobe Bryant go end-to-end and Randy Moss run a down-and-out and Ichiro Suzuki go from first to third and they will see it start to finish, in real time, the outcome happening before their eyes. But the men's 400 relay finals at the world championships? On your mark, get set . . . we'll show it to you in four hours on another network.

  Mike Penner

  Sports, Country, Running

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• Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties... They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty... that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Mean, Men, Political

  Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 375, 1927.

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• Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

  John F. Kennedy

  Achievement, Effort, Democracy

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• Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

  Gerald Edelman

  Causes, Purpose, Evolution

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• The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Success, Nature, Men

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• For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

  Robert Jastrow

  Bible, Faith, Dream

  God and the Astronomers ch. 9 (1978)

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• My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders are denying the dire reality we are facing. Leadership can come form anywhere.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Reality, People, Leader

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• If the people are to be the final tribunal then they must vote for what is right rather than according to their own selfish interests, else we are treading the path of danger.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  Selfish, People, Voting

  Henry Latham Doherty (1923). “Principles and Ideas for Doherty Men: Papers, Addresses and Letters”

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• It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed only toward serving the wishes of consumers.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Wish, Analysis, Employment

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “On the Manipulation of Money and Credit”, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Free Market Books

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• Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? . . . . I have been thinking much about pain. How could I help it? . . . . Sooner or later, regardless of the wit of man, we have pain to face; a reality; a final inescapable, immutable fact of life. What poor souls, if we have then no philosophy to face it with! This pain will not last; it never has lasted. I'll think about what I am going to write tomorrow-not about me, not about my body.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Life, Pain, Philosophy

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• Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.

  Agustin Gomez-Arcos

  Death, Winter, The End Of The Day

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• Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way......What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything....Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.

  Pedro Arrupe

  Love, God, Faith

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• A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Inspiration, Common Sense

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• It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Stars, Real

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Grief, Mountain, Shells

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