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"I was supposed to take the ball out. I told coach, 'There's no way I'm taking the ball out, unless I can shoot it over the backboard and it goes in. I told him, 'Have somebody else take the ball out, give me the ball, and everybody get out of the way.'"
"Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason."
"Tully/Ysolde: "Brom?" I asked, releasing his head. He reeled backwards for a moment, his eyes huge. "Are you all right?" Brom: "I couldn't breathe," he said, giving my boobs a wary glance."
"If I go out with someone I need them to sit and give me a cuddle every night. If they don't, I wonder if they still love me."
"I walked over to Drake and stomped on his foot. Hard. "What will I give you to help me? What will I give you?" He stood on one leg rubbing his foot, grinning a grin so steamy, it almost melted my underwear. "I never doubted you would defeat her. You are my mate. You could do no less." I pointed a finger at him. "You are too arrogant for your own good. I officially de-mate you. Go away. I never want to see you again. Except maybe tonight. Naked. Your place. But after that, no more."
"Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death."
"I chose Tennessee because I thought theyd give me an opportunity to play."
"What do you mean, 'playing really creatively'? Can you give me an example?" "Hmm, let's see ... you send the music deep enough into your heart so that it makes your body undergo a kind of a physical shift, and simultaneously the listener's body also undergoes the same kind of physical shift. It's giving birth to that kind of shared state. Probably."
"My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm."
"Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this."
"Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on."
"Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don't happen to take that as the premise for everything else though. I'm going to give it hundred percent and go as far as I can. I'll take what I want and leave what I don't want. That's how I intend to live my life, and it things go bad, I'll stop and reconsider at that point. If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit."
"It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship."
"I'm not going to get involved in a debate with you. Just remember this: the gods give, and the gods take away. Even if you are not aware of having been granted what you posses, the gods remember what they gave you. They don't forget a thing. You should use the abilities you have been granted with the utmost care."
"The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea."
"Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones."
"We give nothing so freely as advice."
"Generosity is the vanity of giving."
"The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love."
"When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it."
