Rings Quotes - Page 29

• The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations' that the Earth was found to revolve around the sun, and not the other way round, and that a mould growing in one of Dr. Alexander Fleming's dishes was found to be capable of destroying bacteria. When in 1989 the spacecraft Voyager 2 got close enough to the planet Naptune to take detailed pictures of the surface, they were 'contrary to all expectations'.

  Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart

  Science, Expectations, Progress

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• What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring.

  Don Shula

  Sports, Loss, Not Good Enough

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• I'm 33 years old now. I really want that ring. I got a taste of it here.

  Latrell Sprewell

  Sports, Years, Want

  Latrell Sprewell during Press Conference, www.insidehoops.com. October 11, 2003.

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• It was an exciting time for me personally because the number of times I've been to the playoffs, that was the opportunity to obtain the first ring. That was special, that's for sure.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Opportunity, Numbers

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• I worked for [Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductee] Tommy Hunter. It was a wonderful training program at the CBC, because they made sure they never paid you very much, so you had to do a lot of things, and that way you made some money. [A phone rings.] That's my agent right now telling me I've got a 13 cent residual from Tommy Hunter in 1969.

  Alan Thicke

  Country, Phones, Cbc

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• Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Ideas, Perception

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• I have brought you to the ring, now you must dance.

  Robert the Bruce

  Sports

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• The first three championships that I won, I won them. I had big numbers and I won them. And last year, the guys won it for me. They won it for the big guy. Numbers are overrated. There's a lot of guys in this league who can say they've got great numbers. But they can't say they've got four rings in the last six years.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Winning, Numbers

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• Me having a beautiful wife and great family and friends around me, all the money I've got, all the things that I've got, a Ferrari that I just ripped the top off of and turned into a convertible, the rings I got, the two mansions on the water, a master's in criminal justice, I'm a cop, plus I look good. So me shooting 40 percent at the foul line is just God's way of saying that nobody's perfect. If I shot 90 percent from the line, it just wouldn't be right.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Beautiful, Two

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• He's got a ring, so I'm taking home the trophy.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Home, Nba

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• My motto is very simple. Win a Ring for the King.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Kings, Winning

  "Shaq: 'My Job Is to Protect The King'" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 13, 2010.

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• Being in the ring became my reality, and, in my reality, I'd think I was someone special.

  Mike Tyson

  Reality, Thinking, Special

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.

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• Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?

  James Purefoy

  Tone, Irritating

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• It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America.

  Henry Rollins

  Pain, America, Age

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• Don't be afraid to pile on the midi rings! I like to play around with metals and pair delicate rings with chunkier ones.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Play, Pairs, Midi

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At one time, I wanted to be a WWE wrestler. I still do. I want to go in the ring once and mess around and jump off the ropes and do a Stone Cold stunt.

  Rob Gronkowski

  Wwe, Rope, Want

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• Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  May, Ophelia, Charming

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• Dark the Night, with breath all flowers,
  And tender broken voice that fills
  With ravishment the listening hours,--
  Whisperings, wooings,
  Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings
  In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills!
  Dark the night
  Yet is she bright,
  For in her dark she brings the mystic star,
  Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love,
  From some unknown afar.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Stars, Flower

  George Eliot (19??). “The Complete Works of George Eliot in Eighteen Volumes: Poems”

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• And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night.
  [Ger., Und kunftige Thaten drangen wie die Sterne
  Rings um uns her unzahlig aus der Nacht.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stars, Night, Deeds

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• The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
  [Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere tinniit tintinnabulum;
  Nisi quis illud tractat aut movet, mutum est, tacet.]

  Plautus

  Moving, Dumb, Bells

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• Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume says that the ancient Muscovites wedded their wives with a whip instead of a ring.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Wife, Facts, Ancient

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.43

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• There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.

  Ouida

  Believe, People, May

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.398, Ouida

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• The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

  Honore de Balzac

  Names, Weather, Earth

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• Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

  Honore de Balzac

  Voice, Soul, Desert

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• Above the clouds I lift my wing
  To hear the bells of Heaven ring;
  Some of their music, though my fights be wild,
  To Earth I bring;
  Then let me soar and sing!

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Fighting, Clouds, Wings

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