#plate

When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun. ↗

— Randy Johnson

#ball #fun #hour #miles #over

Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate. ↗

— Warren Rudman

#going #plate #step #up

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#century #civilization #contemplate #daring #energy

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone. ↗

— Andrew Shue

#closed #down #fear #frankly #just

Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat. ↗

— Janet Street-Porter

#food #hat #i #look #looked

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#i #men #mussolini #parade #saw

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity. ↗

— John Strachan

#back #brought #christianity #compare #contemplate