#catch

I have a little pocket Bible that I have with me all the time in my briefcase, and so usually in the mornings, sometimes on the campaign bus or plane, I always try to catch some time to do that regularly. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#bible #briefcase #bus #campaign #catch

So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven? ↗

— Joseph Heller

#catch- #faith

Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress. "Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say. "It must be. The sensation's completely new. How have you managed it all these years?" he asks. "Just avoid mirrors. You'll forget about it," I say. "Not if I keep looking at you," he says. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#finnick #hunger-games #katniss #mirror #pretty

Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say. “I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says. “You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down. “It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss-and-peeta #katniss-everdeen #love #peeta-mellark #romance

Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out. ↗

— Malin Akerman

#amazing #beautiful #catch #checking #close

I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench. ↗

— Sparky Anderson

#bench #catcher #comparing #embarrass #him

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#before #catching #cruise #days #down

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it. ↗

— Pearl Bailey

#hide #look #past #repeat #way

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#being #cannot #catch-22 #family #happy

The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment. ↗

— Annette Bening

#always #bottle #catch #feel #find