More from Alan Brazil
Scotland have this habit of kicking themselves in the foot.
Alan BrazilAlan Brazil There’s a good-feel factor about Sheffield Wednesday.
Alan BrazilAlan Brazil Some of the Scotland players need to look themselves in the face.
Alan BrazilAlan Brazil I have seen players sent off for far worse offences than that.
Alan BrazilAlan Brazil Belgium’s not a hotpot of international football.
Alan BrazilAlan Brazil Clint Dempsey scored a last-minute winner to earn Tottenham a 1-1 draw against United.
Alan BrazilAlan Brazil Levante have gone fourth in Serie A. If anyone can tell me what part of Italy Levante is in, please call. I’ve no idea
Alan BrazilAlan Brazil In the papers this morning: ‘Police closing in on Ian Holloway.’ Sorry, it’s ‘Palace closing in on Ian Holloway.’
Alan BrazilAlan Brazil The tackles are coming in thick and thin now.
Alan BrazilAlan Brazil In their last four Blackburn have lost 3-0, 3-1, 5-3 and 3-2. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that’s 12 goals conceded
Alan BrazilAlan Brazil
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Life is a journey through the sea between the Islands of birth and success.
AurthurAurthur There are times when god speaks. You might not hear the words, but you’ll see. You’ll see.
Sonya TeclaiSonya Teclai For in the wild I feel the safest where the thorns of the invisible hand can not prick me.
Raha ArazRaha Araz I tried to write you something uplifting but I could only see grey.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados I want to spend the rest of my coffee’s with you.
Jessica PickardJessica Pickard Never again will I give, give myself to those who refuse to see my fire.
TMCTMC You attract the energy you give out to the world.
Stuart PetersonStuart Peterson We are built on a foundation of facades.
Amanda KarchAmanda Karch
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
William CowperWilliam Cowper When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. … A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy But to stir up the gift and allow God’s Spirit to disturb us and disturb us and disturb us until we yield and yield and yield and the possibility in God’s mind for us becomes an established fact in our lives, with the rivers in evidence meeting the need of a dying world.
Smith WigglesworthSmith Wigglesworth If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
Al SharptonAl Sharpton This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder