Quotes with on-base

Quotes 21 till 40 of 65.

  • Dave Barry If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Bart Gordon If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
    Bart Gordon
    American lawyer (1949 - )
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  • Bill Gross Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist In the minor leagues, previous to 2008, I took a lot of pitches. I prided myself on on-base percentage. I made sure that I made the pitcher work.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Sydney Smith It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Jean Anouilh It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • John Ruskin Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bill Simmons Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling. Leaders make mistakes when they lose that same confidence, when they're fretting about their power base, when they're reacting instead of acting.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Edward Young Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Bow Wow LL Cool J was a rapper-turned-actor, and I also relate to him because he was sort of a ladies' man and had a female fan base, but yet he's a positive dude. You never read about him getting into trouble or going to jail.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can claim no such devoted fan base.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Albert Bandura Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
    Albert Bandura
    Canadian-American psychologist (1925 - )
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  • Bow Wow My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Iris Murdoch No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • William Shakespeare Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Charlotte Brontë One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Carl Rogers One of the most satisfying experiences I know is fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset. When I look at a sunset... I don't find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a little more on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple along the base, and use a little more pink in the cloud color...' I don't try to control a sunset. I watch it with awe as it unfolds.
    Carl Rogers
    American psychologist (1902 - 1987)
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  • Noam Chomsky Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Small have continual plodders ever won, save base authority from other's books.
    Source: Love's Labour's Lost, I, I
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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