And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.


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I'm in the Apple store on Regent Street far too much; I'm obsessed by whatever the latest Ap...
TOM ELLIS
Eddie was disappointed that he missed those free throws but I told him that we wouldn't have had tha...
BRIAN ELLIS
We played hard in the fourth quarter to get back in the game. We're just not coming to play four qua...
BRIAN ELLIS
We have got to start finding a third or fourth scorer. ... I told the guys before the game tonight (...
BRIAN ELLIS
I wasn't very confident that we could play with Herkimer without Brian Radley but we showed that we ...
BRIAN ELLIS
They understood their roles in how we wanted to break the press. These are mostly guys up from the J...
BRIAN ELLIS
Sometimes you've got to win ugly. We didn't play well on our floor and I think that was because of o...
BRIAN ELLIS
We were not smart on our shot selection early in the game. We've got people on the floor who still h...
BRIAN ELLIS
We have improved every game. Now we probably need to take another step higher to play with Herkimer.
BRIAN ELLIS
I know West Canada didn't have a real good shooting night but I think sometimes our defense created ...
BRIAN ELLIS
That was a huge play. They stole the rebound and took it from a two-point game to a five-point game ...
BRIAN ELLIS
We've been working really hard on being consistent on both ends. LC is a very consistent team. If yo...
BRENDA ELLIS
Last time we played them, they made some runs and we didn't have any answers. This time LC made a co...
BRENDA ELLIS
That was my hope, to give Brittany plenty of playing time on the JV team. I really figured she would...
BRENDA ELLIS
It was a great team effort, and we've really been working on playing together as a team.
BRENDA ELLIS
Defense was definitely our best offense last night.
BRENDA ELLIS
We've been working on pressure man defense. Early on this season we used some zone, but just with ou...
BRENDA ELLIS
We've been getting some help at practice by playing a 6-foot-5 girl. We've been defending her and sh...
BRENDA ELLIS
We played great defense, the girls were very disciplined.
BRENDA ELLIS
We just missed a couple of key baskets and they were able to capitalize. They were a little more con...
BRENDA ELLIS
There are a lot of good teams in this tournament. This is going to be a tough district to get out of...
BRENDA ELLIS
As a writer you slant all evidence in favor of the conclusions you want to produce, and you rarely t...
BRET ELLIS
I totally relate to Tom Cruise, ... He?s not crazy, it?s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
BRET ELLIS
I grew up in suburbia,
BRET ELLIS
The writer in the new novel is haunted by everything - his father, the things he wrote. American Psy...
BRET ELLIS
Even though our campus is predominantly female, that major is down.
BRENT ELLIS
(Reverend Walter) McLean who came in 1927 often didn't take his salary. There just wasn't money for ...
BRENT ELLIS
It started with people meeting in their homes.
BRENT ELLIS
We seem to be holding our own financially. There's a good core congregation here that works hard.
BRENT ELLIS
The continuing Presbyterians stayed on (with Chalmers).
BRENT ELLIS
I could look at sales six months ago and they're at one level, but this year there might be 28 homes...
BRETT ELLIS
Should you need to sell the home within a year or two there is not a lot of equity there.
BRETT ELLIS
Probably in the last six months I've seen more 100% financing deals than I've seen in the last two t...
BRETT ELLIS
Because we have more inventory right now prices are starting to come down. The market is re-balancin...
BRETT ELLIS
We're starting to see hundreds of price reductions a day.
BRETT ELLIS
Some of them are $40,000, and they've been sitting there for 120 days.
BRETT ELLIS
There had been some pent up demand that seems to have entered the market. I think people saw a respi...
BRETT ELLIS
We did see a drop-off in buyer volume.
BRETT ELLIS
Gateway is still a solid market. Homes are actually selling well.
BRETT ELLIS
But gated communities aren't necessarily a guarantee of safety. The bad guys don't respond to gates ...
BRETT ELLIS
Mailer is a genius. He's the one I most connect with in terms of fiction â€âÂ...
BRET ELLIS
I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
BRET ELLIS