Seba Quotes

1. "I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way."
Author: Adam Yauch

2. "Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living."
Author: Alvin Dark

3. "Tulisan Ki Hadjar Dewantara mengandung greget dan bernafaskan perdjuangan. Bukan semata-mata sebagai beberan dan bahasan ilmu, tetapi ia djuga mengandung petundjuk memperdjuangkannya gagasan itu. Bukan hanja kupasan tanpa tudjuan, bukannja ilmu tanpa tjita-tjita jang dikemukakan dan dilengkapi dan dipersenjatai ilmu. Tulisan-tulisannja tidak sadja menjuruh orang untuk berfikir, tetapi ia mengadjak kita berbuat, berdjuang untuk tjita-tjita dengan pengetahuan sebagai sendjatanya - Pengantar Buku Pendidikan Karya Ki Hadjar Dewantara"
Author: Arif Saifudin Yudistira

4. "Membaca autobiografi atau memoir seolah-olah terlibat dalam dialog dengan narator yang menjadi jurucakap pengarang: mendengar secara langsung cerita serta pendapat tentang zamannya dengan gaya pengucapan peribadinya. Gaya bahasa dan idiosinkrasi penampilannya menghantar karyanya mirip cereka, tetapi fakta dan kebenaran subjeknya akan menyeretnya menjadi mirip sejarah, dan hakikat inilah yang berkemungkinan melahirkan memoir sebagai wacana intelektual yang artistik; menggugah dan tidak menjemukan."
Author: Baharuddin Zainal

5. "Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore."
Author: Bill Lee

6. "I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don't know who's trying to take advantage of you, what people really want."
Author: Billy Williams

7. "Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator."
Author: Bob Kerrey

8. "When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country."
Author: Bobby Fischer

9. "I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field."
Author: Bryce Harper

10. "Isabelle and Sebastian? Hardly. Sebastian's a nice guy – Isabelle only likes dating thoroughly inappropriate boys our parents will hate. Mundanes, Downworlders, petty crooks…""Thanks," Simon said. "I'm glad to be classed with the criminal element."
Author: Cassandra Clare

11. "That thing that looks like me but isn't? He'll burn down the world if Sebastian wants him to, and laugh while he's doing it. That's what you're saving, Clary. That. Don't you understand? I'd rather be dead—"
Author: Cassandra Clare

12. "I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder."
Author: Chad Harbach

13. "Setiap bangun tidur pagi, berterima kasihlah kepada Tuhan, karena anda memiliki sesuatu yang harus dikerjakan, entah pekerjaan itu anda sukai mau pun tidak.Terpaksa bekerja dan bekerja sebaik-baiknya akan memelihara kesederhanaan anda, kemampuan mengendalikan diri, kerajinan, kegigihan, kepuasan, dan seratus kebajikan lain yang tidak dikenal oleh orang-orang yang berleha-leha."
Author: Charles Kingsley

14. "Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning."
Author: Chili Davis

15. "Hubungan yang udah retak mau diperbaiki sebaik apapun tetap aja nggak akan sama kayak dulu lagi. Ibarat guci udah pecah mau dilem pake lem semahal apapun tetap aja kelihatan retaknya."
Author: Cindy Pricilla

16. "Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games."
Author: Cleo Moore

17. "Se continui a guardarmi così, Victoria, sarò felice di darti quello che vuoi. Dopotutto, non sei più una bambina" Sebastian a Victoria"
Author: Colleen Gleason

18. "They continued on to London, and she's there, safe and sound, waiting for you.''You can't know for sure.' Piers swung up into the carriage.'You will never know for sure if she's dead or alive unless you keep her near you all the time,' Sebastian said with perfect, if maddening, accuracy."
Author: Eloisa James

19. "So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian."
Author: Evelyn Waugh

20. "Agaknya sesuatu telah berlangsung dalam politik dewasa ini - sesuatu yang barangkali bisa disebut sebagai pengkelontongan informasi"
Author: Goenawan Mohamad

21. "Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will."
Author: Harry Caray

22. "Darah-lumpur sungguh umpatan yang tak pantas diucapkan. Sebagian besar penyihir sekarang ini toh berdarah-campuran. Kalau kita tidak menikah dengan Muggle, kita pasti sudah punah. (Ron Weasley)"
Author: J.K. Rowling

23. "People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire."
Author: Jackson Browne

24. "I watch baseball on TV like my cat watches the window. Somebody open the blinds so we can see better!"
Author: Jarod Kintz

25. "For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning."
Author: John Thorn

26. "I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious."
Author: Jon Lovitz

27. "I love period pieces. It's where my skill sets lie, with the horseback riding, the sword fighting and the accents. I love that world, and I love working on those big, epic shows. That's what I hope to find myself in, in the future."
Author: Kris Holden Ried

28. "Baseball was the darling of all sports back then."
Author: Marion Motley

29. "People need people and the happiest people aresurrounded with friendly flesh.If you have ten kids they'll be so sweet --ten really sweet kids! Have twelve!What if there were 48 pro baseball teams,you could see a damn lot more games!And in this fashion we get awayfrom tragedy. Because tragedy comes when someone gets too special."
Author: Mark Halliday

30. "Misery and pride. 'On horseback, death and a peacock'."
Author: Milan Kundera

31. "For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else."
Author: Nolan Ryan

32. "I always get very calm with baseball."
Author: Paul Simon

33. "I'd like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy."
Author: Paul Walker

34. "Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor."
Author: Pedro Martinez

35. "Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on."
Author: Peter Ueberroth

36. "Apabila sebagai pengarang harus kutangguhkan begitu banyak ketidakadilan di tanahair sendiri, penganiayaan lahir-batin, perampasan kebebasan dari penghidupan, hak dan milik, penghinaan dan tuduhan, bahkan juga perampasan hak untuk membela diri melalui mass-media mau pun pengadilan, aku hanya bisa mengangguk mengerti. Sayang sekali kekuasaan tak bisa merampas harga diri, kebanggaan diri, dan segala sesuatu yang hidup dalam batin siapa pun."
Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer

37. "Kalau aku tak memiliki tubuh indah dan wajah cantik mungkin aku jadi sebagian dari mereka yang dibunuh pelan-pelan itu."
Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer

38. "A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that."
Author: Reggie Jackson

39. "Manusia bertarung memperebutkan kekuasaan atas nama agama dan bukan sebaliknya. agama apa pun tidak membenarkan pertarungan antar agama dan tidak akan pernah ada kecuali manusia yang begitu bodoh sehingga menafsirkan yang sebaliknya."
Author: Seno Gumira Ajidarma

40. "I'm here because I know the sadness inside you. I know what it feels like to wake in the morning, lost and lonely and aching for someone to be there with me. (Sebastian)"
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

41. "In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate from high school in a few months. In 2009, bound to a wheelchair, he watched his daughter graduate from college. The wheelchair had nothing to do with his cancer. The man had fallen down while coaching his youngest son's baseball team."
Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee

42. "Mimpi saya yang terbesar, yang ingin saya laksanakan adalah, agar mahasiswa Indonesia berkembang menjadi "manusia-manusia yang biasa". Menjadi pemuda-pemuda dan pemudi-pemudi yang bertingkah laku sebagai seorang manusia yang normal, sebagai seorang manusia yang tidak mengingkari eksistensi hidupnya sebagai seorang mahasiswa, sebagai seorang pemuda dan sebagai seorang manusia."
Author: Soe Hok Gie

43. "In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball."
Author: Stephen Baldwin

44. "Engkau memintaku untuk melupakan cintaku, seakan-akan cinta itu disebabkan oleh oleh kemanjaanku. Kau tidak menyadari bahwa cinta sejati, cinta yang muncul dari jiwa yang paling dalam, meningkatkan kemampuan untuk mengabdi. Memintaku untuk melupakan cintaku, sama saja seperti kau memintaku untuk melupakan keimananku pada Tuhan dan kekuatanku untuk mengabdi"
Author: Sudhir Kakar

45. "Oh, and Jack said to tell you something…what was it? Ah…he said, ‘If the Mets get anywhere near home base, it'll be the last game they ever play.'" She laughed. "I don't know a lot about baseball. Did that make sense?" Daniel gulped. "Perfect sense." In other words, touch my daughter and die, asshole. "See you tomorrow, Daniel." "Bye, sunshine." Daniel hung up the phone and stared off into space. Obviously Jack was trying to kill him. Take my beautiful daughter out, sit next to her for hours on end, and bring her home untouched. The prom date from hell. Matt and Brent came up behind him. "How'd it go?" Matt asked. "Oh, you know…perfect." He turned to Brent. "I'm taking her to the game tomorrow night." Brent's mouth dropped open. "What the hell? I thought you were taking me?" "Tough shit. She smells better than you."
Author: Tessa Bailey

46. "Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz."
Author: Thierry Henry

47. "He watched her in the aisles: Molly, his pretty baseball wife, with her ceaseless vigilance for lumps, her insistence on quarterly medical checkups for him and Willy, her controlled fear of the dark; her hard-bought knowledge that time is luck. She knew the value of their days. She could hold a moment by its stem. She had taught him to relish."
Author: Thomas Harris

48. "Free agency changed the baseball landscape in many ways. It created more opportunities for players, but it also meant increasingly fewer players would spend an entire career playing for one franchise—and that's especially true for players capable of becoming "legends," the ones in such demand on the free agent market."
Author: Tucker Elliot

49. "I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump."
Author: Vin Scully

50. "I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game."
Author: Wayne Gretzky

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