One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life. My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be seen many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will.
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One temptation of a leader elected unopposed is that he may use that powerful position to settle scores with his detractors, marginalize them and, in certain cases, get rid of them and surround himself with yes men and women,
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Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls Married impossible men?...
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I thought at the beginning of the day, there might be two scores in the 60s today. The golf course is playing really difficult. It's fast now. As always, if there's no rain here, the golf course is completely different from Wednesday to Thursday. It somehow just dries out miraculously overnight.
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Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.
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Oh, and here comes Caddick to bowl again from the pavilion end again... well, I don't suppose he'll mind if I read the scores between his balls.
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I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.
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Kevin McReynolds stops at third and he scores.
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Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds.
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Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
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Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points, they almost always win.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper.
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The course had benign conditions for us. Scores are to be had out there.
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We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We ...
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Any shot that scores is a good shot.
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If you look at all of our scores, we hung around even with all the adversity and injuries.
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