“Now there’s a guy who lost the human race.”
My own thought April 2 2004 on abject failure (not any specific instance of it, just the general concept)
“Work fast, change speeds, throw strikes.”
The 3 keys to pitching, according to the announcers on Toronto Blue Jays’ game September 5, 1995
“‘Of course there might be a God. I just don’t know.’ You are either living as though He did, or living as though He didn’t. If you don’t know anything at all, then how did you choose?/ The psalmist famously wrote, ‘The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’’ Did he call the man a fool for not knowing God is real? Or for knowing God is real, but pretending to himself that he didn’t?/ Few people lose belief in God, and then do wrong. The more often traveled path is to do wrong, excuse it, then look for reasons to disbelieve in God.”
J. Budziszewski "Underground Thomist" email “Reading an Empty Book” March 24, 2019.
Someone’s eagle “really took the wind out of [another player’s] hands.”
Announcer on TBS Jan. 16, 1994, reminiscing about the Hawaiian Open 10 years earlier
“Concerning aesthetic values, I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain, and hear the laugh of a child.”
Frank Capra The Name Above the Title
“[History’s] chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature, by showing men in all varieties of circumstances and situations, and furnishing us with materials from which... we become acquainted with the regular springs of human action and behaviour.”
David Hume Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding quoted in Norman Davies The Isles
“Not his finest moment… at least I hope not.”
A friend regarding someone's hapless performance some years ago
“Misfortune is a point of view. Your headache may feel good to an aspirin salesman.”
Tony Robbins Unlimited Power