Gordon Dahlquist Quotes

#1. Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

Pete Rozelle

#2. Heroines did not pick their own battles - the ones they knew they could win. On the contrary, they managed what they had to manage, and they did not lie to themselves about relying on others for help instead of accomplishing the thing alone.

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#3. She knew how fortunate she was to have her independence, and to have a disposition that cared so little for the opinions of others. Let them talk, she thought, as long as they also saw her holding her head high, and as long as she possessed the whip-hand of wealth.

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#4. This was how people were able to do things when they didn't want to - they made themselves feel something else, like anger, more than the fear.

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#5. I tried to whisper sweet nothings into your ear but you're way the fuck over there and I'm way the fuck over here.

Crystal Rose

#6. The reason that almost half of Mark's sixteen chapters describe the final period of Jesus' ministry is that it is in his suffering, death and resurrection that the revelation of God in Christ is most clearly seen.

William L. Lane

#7. What if Captain Smythe did not reject his orders? What if Captain Smythe was not there at all? What if instead of soldiers they

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#8. There was too much to say - she wanted to prove her independence but knew the Contessa would not care, she wanted revenge but knew the Contessa would never admit her defeat.

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#9. It is always best when discussing serious matters to do so around a teapot.

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#10. She did not especially appreciate children either, but could be kind to them when they were silent.

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#11. Simon gave Clary a look that was supposed to mean: This is weird. She responded with a very clear look of response that said: Superweird.

Cassandra Clare

#12. She was already fierce. She required none of this nonsense, and if she'd carried a man's strength and her father's horsewhip these villains would as one be on their knees.

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#13. It's impossible to read The Poison Belt, written in 1913, and not see in its exterminating vision a shadow of the coming war that would, only slightly less effectively, destroy Conan Doyle's world.

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#14. It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.

Sherrie Levine

#15. I have avoided the fate my father planed for me, surely it is I who won not he.

Robin LaFevers

#16. Chang despised authority on principle, for even when veiled by the rubric of practical necessity or the weight of tradition he could not see institutional power as anything but an expression of arbitrary personal will, and it galled him profoundly.

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#17. but a man did not acquire so much gold brocade without learning to swallow his own desire

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#18. First you say I am a murderer - an agent in league against you - and now I am a deluded heartsick girl! Pray make up your mind so I can scoff at you with precision!

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#19. What use is decency when we have been thrust into this peril - treading about without even a corset! Are we to be judged?

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#20. I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.

Joe DiMaggio

#21. When they find what they don't like , they destroy it. Because it scares them-and you girls would scare them as much as anything they've ever seen.' 'Why?' asked Isobel. 'Because ... because of what they believe.

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#22. Is thinking small?" asked Isobel. "Small as air." May tapped my head with her finger. "And just as big.

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#23. She was difficult, she knew. She did not make friends. She was brisk and demanding, unsparing and indulgent.

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#24. There are so many ways to tell time-one way with clocks and watches and sunsets, or other ways with how many times a person laughs, or what they forget, or how they change their minds about what they care about, or why, or whom.

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#25. Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.

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#26. each man braces his fear against his love. What you love may change. But if you love still, your fear remains

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#27. Did not pleasure depend on an architecture of perspective
on contrast and delay, withholding and loss? Did not true enjoyment rely in facing the future?

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#28. It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all.

Gillian Flynn

#29. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and accoutrements were by definition objective, even scientific, in nature.

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#30. Wake him or put a bullet through his brain. No one will protest. Or leave him - but I suggest choosing, my dear. I have learned it is best to be haunted by one's actions rather than one's lack of them.

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