Dislodged cobwebs and dust swirled around them. The ceiling was holding for now. He doubted it could withstand another hit. Ben Parish must have been thinking the same thing. "Oh, that's great." Ben turned to Cassie. "Let's everybody form a prayer circle, quick, because we have just been royally fucked.
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Related Cassie?” It’s Sammy, holding on to Ben, because he’s feeling the Ben thing a little more ... RICK YANCEY Zombie!” Sammy calls. “I knew it was you.” Zombie? “Where are you taking him?” B... RICK YANCEY That's it," he said bitterly. "Cry, Cassie. Cry for her. Cry for all the children. They can't hear y... RICK YANCEY Don't be a BEN brother, should have been, would have been, could have been, or might have been. UNKNOWN When Robin Yount hit a home run, he ran around the bases just like Ben Johnson does. Molitor, same t... ROB PICCIOLO Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." STEVEN ERIKSON There is a light that glimmers along the darkening edge of an infinite horizon. In that light the he... RICK YANCEY What we have been trying to do more recently is keep Ben where he can roam more. It's not been a coi... FLIP SAUNDERS It was a great cross from Ben Strand, and Nick did his thing. We just stuck in there. DERYCK LIM Some things down to the smallest of things, are worth the sum of all things RICK YANCEY Thinking about the bacon- the potential of bacon- gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't. RICK YANCEY He just gave of himself and was very active in borough politics. Anybody who came in touch with him.... HAL HONIG They made a major mistake," he blurted out, "the dumb bastards, when they didn't start by killing yo... RICK YANCEY For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ... I was just... thinking." "That must have been quite an experience for you. ALEX FLINN It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows. DAVID CRYSTAL Ben was great. The energy he played with for 56 minutes was unreal. FLIP SAUNDERS Just about the time we think we have Derek figured out and what to do against him he shifts on us. D... BOB MARTINKO It has been a great experience to act in Hollywood movies with actors like Ben Kingsley. NAVI RAWAT Ben is so young, and he has so much to learn. Matt has arrived. But for the future, I would rather h... WARREN MOON If it requires a screw to be inserted Ben could be sidelined for around 10 weeks. MARY TOOMEY It was just a fun game, and a much-needed game. I have never been a part of that. It was just a grea... DAMIAN MILLER And, for one– ten thousandth of a second, all of it fell away, the despair and grief and anger and... RICK YANCEY His heart's occupied elsewhere," said Ben from behind me. "And even if it weren't he's not intereste... PATRICIA BRIGGS What was it Like?" "What was what like?" he said, although he knew. "Quick, I imagine. But... MAX BARRY This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoist... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Oh yeah. It's like Charlie said on TV, it's not him against Ben. He has to go against the Steelers' ... DAVID FRYE It has been a wonderful experience. He is very much the perfectionist fabricator. Because we think t... JAN SVEC We are very pleased with the way Ben closed out his conference career. Ben has always been an extrem... BRENNAN CLEVELAND That was the thing about Ben. He could get away with saying shit like that. I totally couldn’t. I ... BILL KONIGSBERG We thought we had it controlled. Then Sunday, oh gosh, it was terrible. Those ceiling tiles started ... COMMANDER ELMO NORTON You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me." "I was nine... CASSANDRA CLARE It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows. DAVID CRYSTAL He was a champion and it was a great privilege to have been around him. Even though he'd been out of... DOUG CAUTHEN Ben started out a little rough for us, but lately he's just been a horse. When he has the ball, this... BRIAN DIATTE The corner kick right before half was nice and the minute Alex hit that corner, I said that's a grea... DOUG KILBY We now have real problems at prop because Euan Murray is still to return from injury, and Ben Presco... HUGH CAMPBELL Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman. BEN CASNOCHA If he were a guy in jail, nobody would think anything of it. He was able to channel that energy, tha... BRET BICOY I just could not take it in. Magnus was vulnerable in a way because he was hopelessly shy and had ne... FRANCIS JONES I haven't heard anything formal, but if Ben does quit rep football it will be a blow because he has ... GRAHAM MURRAY You’re the mayfly,' he murmurs. And then Evan Walker kisses me. Holding my hand across... RICK YANCEY I remember thinking back then, 'Oh God, if we don't get a hit by the time I'm 20 I have to kill myse... KAREN CARPENTER Oh, my God, you smiled! Mr. American Frown actually smiled!" "Must have been a mistake. I'll sp... SOPHIE KINSELLA I kept waiting for Ben (center Ben Wallace ) to come back in. I guess (coach) felt that if things we... ANTONIO MCDYESS We're a quick team and we can move the ball, drive the lane, hit our shots. We just needed to calm d... BAILEY HANSEN A lot more of them should have played in this past game because they could have been just as effecti... JEFF BOWDEN They must have figured with them having been married five years and living in the same trailer that ... MIKE TUBBS Ben is quick, athletic, strong, tenacious and hungry -- the whole nine yards. He makes it tough beca... MIKE BROWN It's been a combination of issues for us. A lot of it depends on how we do in the circle, but we als... MARGO JONKER I have nothing but great admiration for this gentleman . . . who's been able to withstand a lot of t... OSCAR PETERSON Ron has really turned this team around. He got everybody to step it up another level, especially on ... BONZI WELLS Ben Lilly threw excellent for us. Our defense backed us up and we hit the ball when we needed to. MARCUS GREER That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans,... RICK YANCEY You don't want me, Ben. I'm seven layers of fucked up with a side of bullshit. K.A. TUCKER [She is also clearly tickled by the memories of meeting the stars who have guest appearances on the ... BEN STILLER We have now approximately 90 National Guard troops in the parish. They've been a tremendous help. JAMES HARTMAN This could have been a game where he could have taken it easily 15 to 20 shots. He turned down so ma... BILLY DONOVAN I haven't heard anything formal, but if Ben does quit rep football, it would be a blow because he ha... GRAHAM MURRAY I know they have some great receivers. I'll try to do the same thing I've been doing. I was just loo... CHARLES SHARON In another life, I could have been you," she'd say. "Yeah, but then I wouldn't have been the s... BOB DYLAN There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. S... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Ben (Wallace) is quick, athletic, strong, tenacious and hungry - the whole nine yards. MIKE BROWN I feel bad for Ben because he is a such hard worker. He's such a great teammate; he always has a tea... ANTHONY MAESTRANZI Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It ... JOHN DENVER Ben leads by example. Everybody respects that. He runs a greater distance than the rest of them. And... ERNIE CHATMAN He turned to crime, and we had an opportunity to stop it. He was robbing banks with a gun. He could ... CLAY GINGLEN He's the best athlete on our football team by far. The whole thing with Ben is believing he can do t... JAMES CREGG I have enormous respect for Tony as a player and a person but right now we are working on retaining ... SHANE RICHARDSON It could have been so beautiful. The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Her pleasure went on and on, and so did Ben's. Ben could almost smell the gardenia, could almost see... KURT VONNEGUT JR. Oh yeah fathers been in it, grandfather and all of them have been in it for years. It's a good job a... DANIEL MARTIN Pitching has always been the dominant thing for me, ... The campus is beautiful, the people have bee... DENNIS HEALY The type of mistakes that we made, ... if we could have turned those around, the game would have bee... DERRICK POPE On the steps leading to a door was a scrub brush that was blue. I snatched it quick and ra... MELINDA K. TROTTER It was just too bad on his high bar dismount that he didn't take a smaller step because I think he c... MARK WILLIAMS Great job, you just executed Ben Franklin! - Otto Ray MONET POLNY We couldn't hit any outside shots and we turned it over too much. We've been struggling in the offen... NATALIE WILLIAMS I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gi... JOHN FRANKENHEIMER He was going to burn them. He was going to burn them alive. He could do it. He would do it... ELISE KOVA It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a da... BARBARA EHRENREICH Oh it was horrible because ... someone could have been shot ... I didn't know what had happened. DOREEN MCMYNN At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at... DAVID CRYSTAL I had been eating the same thing, doing the same thing for four days trying to keep it going. I've j... HANNAH KIRK It's great to be back - I missed it. It was just day three for me, and we're getting better. Ben is ... HINES WARD It's not like anyone is holding them hostage. We just kind of felt it was up to that individual. Tha... BILL PARKER A rape victim...a rape victim who fights...They've been violated, made helpless and afraid. It break... PATRICIA BRIGGS Ben will be exciting to watch, and we will have to wait and see how he adjusts to the college level. JUSTIN SHERWOOD It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playbo... HARRY NILSSON One day we found them. They must of been holding a gook convention or something, cause it seem like ... WINSTON GROOM Nature had been fucked with. And Mother was pissed.”... Mother Nature was funny that way. Complex.... CHUCK GROSSARTM We were really pleased with the development of our defense. Ben Davis played about as well as it cou... BEN DAVIS A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only... STEPHEN KING I was just blessing God. As a mother, I was terrified. But now, instead of weeping and thinking that... JUANITA JOHNSON Where was Sam? It hit her full force then, the shocking realization. Was this how Sam felt? Was... MICHAEL GRANT He hit me square in the head. I remember everything about the game until that point. The next thing ... AUSTIN FLYNN They think I'm a waste of space, actually, but I'm used to—" "I don't think you're a wa... J.K. ROWLING It seems like they are after Rick for every little thing. I?m just trying to run it like a business ... BETTY ROBERTS They were good examples for us that when things weren't going well you have to keep plugging away an... DAN FLEMING However we could have been 2-0 down at half-time but we turned it around in the second-half and we d... AUSTIN EGUAVOEN
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PHILIP YANCEY the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the hau... PHILIP YANCEY Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Not... PHILIP YANCEY As Dennis Covington has written, "Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more me... PHILIP YANCEY Suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope."7-19 He lists hope at... PHILIP YANCEY As a Jewish rabbi put it, "A man should carry two stones in his pocket. On one should be inscribed, ... PHILIP YANCEY I have found consolation, for example, in C. S. Lewis's depiction in The Great Divorce of hell as a ... PHILIP YANCEY We have a lot of distractions that come with homecoming week. Sylacauga got their first win the othe... FRED YANCEY We knew we had to contain Thompson's quarterback. They gave us a great effort defensively. FRED YANCEY This was a big win for us. I thought our kids did a great job playing wire-to-wire and working their... FRED YANCEY Why the delay? Why does God let evil and pain so flagrantly exist, even thrive, on this planet?...He... PHILIP YANCEY I want to learn from them. I want to do what I can to make a difference. JANAY YANCEY I think that will be amazing. It's always been a dream of mine to play big time volleyball. JANAY YANCEY I love the fact that they have a new coach. We just clicked automatically. (Coach Stubbs) was a frie... JANAY YANCEY It's great. I set a goal for myself and I reached it. Now I've got to set a new one and keep on goin... JANAY YANCEY I chose the school that I though would be best for me. There were a lot of different things between ... JANAY YANCEY Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution. PHILIP YANCEY We're looking forward to getting to the championship game, but our thoughts will be about winning (t... WAYNE YANCEY You've got to give Carl Junction a lot of credit. They came out and kept getting after us. YANCEY LITTLE Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities. RICK WARREN I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues... RICK DERRINGER If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already hav... RICK PERRY And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting st... RICK PERRY It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have... RICK RIORDAN All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of... RICK RIORDAN During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. ... RICK WARREN Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. RICK WARREN You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies. RICK WARREN Some of the pictures in 'The Human Face of Big Data' will bring tears to your eyes; others a... RICK SMOLAN The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomi... RICK PERRY As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of Ame... RICK RENZI Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyon... RICK PITINO Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect... RICK MOODY In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. An... RICK RUBIN We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit;... RICK PERRY I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a ... RICK ASTLEY This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel... RICK MORANIS I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundr... RICK MORANIS