"When people reproach us, they only increase their own failings even as they are disclaiming them."

-- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

#People Quotes #Failing Quotes #Increase Quotes

“A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.”

Source : Christy Mathewson (2013). “Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside”, p.93, Penguin
“E-mail creates the illusion that you're writing. You're not.”
“The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.”
“These people want you to quit just like CM Punk did.”
“Love prefers twilight to daylight.”
“A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.”
“Germany has been born anew.”
“I always played the ugly sister instead of Cinderella or the Wicked Witch. But those are the parts I love, and actually, to be a character actress, you have more longevity, hopefully.”

Source : "Talented British actress Lucy Punch packs a wallop". Interview with Michael Ordoña, www.sfgate.com. June 19, 2011.

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