Rounds Quotes - Page 37

Typically, in the last round of open tournaments the level of play is markedly lower, the number of blunders higher.

Pal Benko

Mistake, Play, Numbers

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It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in view of the large number of mistakes, are not fit for publication!

Viktor Korchnoi

Morning, Mistake, Player

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People say I'll be drafted in the first round, maybe even higher.

Craig Heyward

Football, Nfl Players, People

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The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.

William Shakespeare

Tears, Noses, Innocence

William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Romeo and Juliet. As you like it”, p.382

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Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

Arnold Wesker

Dirty, Suffering, Tuberculosis

"Commercial productions sweep up at theatre awards" by Mark Honigsbaum, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2005.

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Market studies suggest space tourism-a rubbernecker's trip to earth orbit-is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be pushed below $25,000. That's what tens of thousands of people spend each year on competing trips, such as round-the-world cruises on luxury liners and adventure tours to Antarctica or Mount Everest.

G. Harry Stine

Future, Adventure, Years

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From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful; set him down on his four, as yet not quite simultaneous legs, and regarded him. He wandered a little round our legs, neither wagging his tail nor licking at our hands; then he looked up, and my companion said: "He's an angel!"

John Galsworthy

Dog, Angel, Hands

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Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence about me with the thud of a tail rippling against my chair on gambols round the study, or news conveyed by expressive ear, nose, and paw. Often I yearn to give them speech, their motions are so eloquent with things they cannot say.

Helen Keller

Dog, Giving, Silence

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In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats.

Thomas E. Mann

Successful, Numbers, Perspective

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The West regards marriage as consisting in all that lies beyond the legal tie, while in India it is thought of as a bond thrown by society round two people to unite them together for all eternity. Those two must wed each other, whether they will or not, in life after life. Each acquires half of the merit of the other. And if one seems in this life to have fallen hopelessly behind, it is for the other only to wait and beat time, till he or she catches up again!

Swami Vivekananda

Marriage, Lying, Two

Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

William Butler Yeats

Sleep, Twenties, Lasts

"The Second Coming" l. 18 (1921)

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Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.

Samuel Johnson

Sleep, Winter, Rivers

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The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human gazes Toward the newly Born: The simple shepherds from the star-lit brooks Brought visionary looks, As yet in their astonied hearing rung The strange sweet angel-tongue: The magi of the East, in sandals worn, Knelt reverent, sweeping round, With long pale beards, their gifts upon the ground, The incense, myrrh, and gold These baby hands were impotent to hold: So let all earthlies and celestials wait Upon thy royal state. Sleep, sleep, my kingly One!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sweet, Baby, Stars

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How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting?
Better go drunk and begging round the taverns.
Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours
Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar.
When once you hear the roses are in bloom,
Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine;
Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell-
These are but fairy-tales, forget them all.

Omar Khayyam

Atheist, Prayer, Wine

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[Childbirth] is the weirdest thing I've ever seen. It's like an 'Alien' movie. I started crying, it was so emotional ... I was there in the room but I wasn't planning on doing much. But then I see this blue pinhead come out and I think I said to the nurse, 'What the hell is that?' And then it turns into this round red thing in seconds. It's just shocking.

Tim Burton

Emotional, Thinking, Blue

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When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.

Neil Diamond

Missing You, Scenery, Merry Go Round

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Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch the streak of blue above.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Wall, Son, Night

"The Souls of Black Folk".

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I'm devastated with the injury but I've proved my heart and skill to everyone by fighting one handed for eight rounds.

Joe Calzaghe

Motivation, Heart, Fighting

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Lacy was a pleasurable fight. It wasn't my hardest fight because I won every single minute of every single round.

Joe Calzaghe

Motivation, Fighting, Fighter

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When you know yourself that you've come through preparation injury free and you've done everything, you've done the work in the gym and the rounds of sparring, it fills you with confidence.

Joe Calzaghe

Motivation, Preparation, Done

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I never before knew the full value of trees....What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown.

Thomas Jefferson

Giving, House, Tree

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Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.

Neel Burton

Men, Firsts, Turns

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His legs remembered the correct position for squatting down with toys. He played. He fit the round male studs into the round female grooves. He got some thinking done as he hunkered down on his fallen-sleep legs.

Colson Whitehead

Sleep, Thinking, Males

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I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."

Jonathan Swift

Cousin, Book, Order

Jonathan Swift (2015). “Gulliver's Travels”, p.4, Xist Publishing

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Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.

Edward Abbey

Night, Rivers, Space

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