If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and of men.


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Carl can play anywhere because he is so versatile. John has done a good job of showing me that he wa...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ
I am not satisfied with going from blowout losses to just losses. We are getting better as a team, b...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ
I think the team is still hung up on what happened in Santa Rosa.
AUGUSTINE RUIZ
I think it was one and fifteen?
AUGUSTINE RUIZ
The kid's got a rocket for an arm. He's played in the outfield, but he wanted to try shortstop, and ...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ
They will be our horses for us on the mound. They are the only returning players that have any exper...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ
Why do you object to war? Surely not, because men, who eventually die anyway, are killed in war? St
AUGUSTINE HIPPO
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
AUGUSTINE HIPPO
Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, an...
AUGUSTINE HIPPO
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of ...
AUGUSTINE HIPPO
He was at least seven yards offside.
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN
It's back to the drawing board and planning for the future.
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN
We want to compensate for missing the World Cup. We have paid back Tunisia, and we want to do the sa...
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN
We have the ingredients to make up for the last three or four Nations Cups where we have not won the...
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN
I want to assure you that we'll work as a team and make sure we secure the three points in the remai...
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN
We paid for underrating Zimbabwe and Angola. We now have the chance to prove ourselves again.
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN
He's still got all the qualities and I try to bring him on for at least one hour.
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN
We could have been 3-0 down at halftime and in the second half as well.
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN
We want to compensate for missing out on the World Cup and also for not winning the Nations Cup for ...
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN
I am waiting for further instructions from the coaches but we shall see how it will go.
AUGUSTINE CHOGE
I don't know how to describe myself, I'm so happy.
AUGUSTINE CHOGE
I was just relaxing because the top athletes who should have made the race faster were not there.
AUGUSTINE CHOGE
I've beaten him once and he's beaten me once, he's a very good runner.
AUGUSTINE CHOGE
I am ready to double in Commonwealth Games and world cross-country championships if given the chance...
AUGUSTINE CHOGE
To Carthage I came, where there sang all around my ears a cauldron of unholy loves.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
He that is jealous is not in love.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first th...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is ha...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with se...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
It really hasn't settled in yet that it's almost over. It seems like yesterday that we just got here...
JAMES AUGUSTINE