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Letter "B" » base
«Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base.»
Author: Frederick Wilcox
| About:
Progress
| Keywords:
base, first base, foot, involves, second base, steal
«It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.»
Author: Giordano Bruno
| About:
Belief,
Mind,
Truth
| Keywords:
base, for one, low, masses, The Masses
«I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.»
Author: Leo Durocher
(Baseball Player)
| About:
Opinions,
Play,
Winning
| Keywords:
base, nice guy, playing, rounded, running play, third base, trip
«If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.»
Author: William Allen White
(Journalist)
| About:
Humanity,
Life
| Keywords:
base, baser, basest, Basing, every other, full, full of life, gentler, gentlest, heartache, heartaches, human, joys, kinder, make full, on base, remorse, sorrowed, sorrowing, sorrows, temptations, The Temptations, understand, would-be
«It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.»
«It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
| Keywords:
aped, apes, aping, base, disturbs, mischievous, ravenous, savage, selfish, The Vulture, unjust, vulture, wolves
«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.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Being a Woman,
Women
| Keywords:
base, catching, Considering, fly ball, infant, on base, saving
«Small things make base men proud.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
base, baser, basest, proud, prouder
«Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Passion
| Keywords:
accursed, base
«Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation»
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