50 Cal Sayings

#1. It fires .50 cal at twice the speed of sound. It will hit him before he ever hears the shot." My mother crossed her arms. "I'd like to see him bounce that off his chest.

Ilona Andrews

#2. The public me, the one named Elizabeth Taylor, has become a lot of hokum and fabrication - a bunch of drivel - and I find her slightly revolting.

Elizabeth Taylor

#3. We move by inches, not miles,' said Gus Dewar with a smile. 'That's politics.

Ken Follett

#4. Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

Henry Ward Beecher

#5. Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#6. We all hate something from our past, Cal. That's why we run from it, or compensate for it, or even fill our van with homeless people. But when something like this happens-when your dad shows up-maybe there is a bigger purpose. 'What you intended for evil, God intended for good.' Genesis 50:20

Brad Meltzer

#7. A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"

Yip Harburg

#8. You've never been in a scrape yet but what it came about by accident. The thing is, no one else has these accidents.

Georgette Heyer

#9. Relax," he says, "You're with me. I'm practically French."
"You're English."
He grins. "I'm American.

Stephanie Perkins

#10. Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

Friedrich Schiller

#11. One can never go wrong with a crisp white shirt to dress up any look. Styled with rolled sleeves and a front tuck creating a chic look for day and night.

George Kotsiopoulos

#12. I'm a prick half the time, but you make me better. You make me happy. I don't want to lose you. I love you. I don't want to lose you.

Nyrae Dawn

#13. Codependents make great employees. They don't complain; they do more than their share; they do whatever is asked of them; they please people; and they try to do their work perfectly - at least for a while, until they become angry and resentful.

Melody Beattie

#14. When you photograph a face ... you photograph the soul behind it.

Jean-Luc Godard

#15. You are the answer. All you have to do is believe.

Michael Lopez

#16. I've felt some great feelings on the baseball field ... in front of 50,000 people and millions on TV ... but the feeling you get when you give a kid a chance, that is a hundred times greater than that feeling.

Cal Ripken Jr.