Playing ball is just like life. Winning is not everything. When you face the challenge, you need to have the courage to stand up and shout out: It's my turn! I'll play.
"Winning is not everything, it is the only thing!"Green Bay Packer coach Vincent Limbardi.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
I took the GRE test last Saturday. I feel that I should write something about it, after all, it's an important test and also a tough one.
Here comes the post about the beautiful sentences with GRE words.
“I just look up at the stars and let the vastness of that black and twinkling canopy fill my soul”(Margaret Mason)
“the smug look of a toad breakfasting on fat marsh flies”(William Pearson)
“Culture is then properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection” (Matthew Arnold). (culture: denote a personal quality resulting from the development of intellect, manners, and aesthetic appreciation. )
“an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who . . . exemplified . . . the most disagreeable traits of his time”(David Cannadine)
“Obedience,/Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,/Makes slaves of men”(Percy Bysshe Shelley)
“Your true lover of literature is never fastidious” (Robert Southey).
“the weapon which most readily conquers reason: terror and violence” (Adolf Hitler).
“Fear is the parent of cruelty” (J.A. Froude)
“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling” (Carl Jung).
“On a summer night . . . a mantle of dust hangs over the gravel roads”(John Dollard)
“He meandered to and fro . . . observing the manners and customs of Hillport society” (Arnold Bennett).
Their infatuation blinded them to the fundamental differences in their points of view.
“The natural bent of my mind was to science”(Thomas Paine)
“Commonly, though not always, we exhort to good actions, we instigate to ill” (Samuel Johnson). (we are exhorted to good actions. Use passive voice?)
“No one could soar into a more intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology” (Anthony Trollope).
“I know and feel what an irksome task the writing of long letters is” (Edmund Burke).
“Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty” (W. Bruce Lincoln).
“Most Ivy League freshman classes are chosen from a motley collection of constituencies . . . and a bare majority of entering students can honestly be called scholars”(New York Times)
He stared down at his dinner plate in a morose and unsociable manner.
made a fetish of punctuality
“Every great hostelry flaunted the flag of some foreign potentate” (John Dos Passos)
“Hide me from Day's garish eye”(John Milton)
“Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop/From low-hung branches . . . /Then off at once, as in a wanton freak” (John Keats).
“For nimble thought can jump both sea and land” (Shakespeare).
At the time, I was too obtuse to grasp the true implications of her behavior.
“Over grass bleached colorless by strong outback sun, the herd oozes forward”(Geraldine Brooks)
“opaque, elusive, minimal meanings”(John Simon)
He stared down at his dinner plate in a morose and unsociable manner.
a morass of detail
“That night he dreamed he was traveling in a foreign country, only it seemed to be a medley of all the countries he'd ever been to and even some he hadn't”(Anne Tyler)
“He is pretty well advanced in years, but hale, robust, and florid” (Tobias Smollett)
“There was nothing feverish or hectic about his vigor”(Erik Erikson)
the young Mozart's prodigious talents
“Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood” (George Santayana).
“Every man had his own quirks and twists” (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
“Keen, poignant agonies seemed to shoot from his neck downward”(Ambrose Bierce)
"Poignant grief cannot endure forever" (W.H. Hudson).
Practice [Example] is better than precept.
“Werner finds himself suddenly in a most awkward predicament” (Thomas Carlyle)
Even a written apology failed to placate the indignant hostess.
ponderous prehistoric beasts
“It would be preposterous to take so grave a step on the advice of an enemy” (J.A. Froude)
the mire of poverty
“The path was altogether indiscernible in the murky darkness which surrounded them” (Sir Walter Scott).
“the narrow crevice of one good deed in a murky life of guilt” (Charles Dickens).
The freighter moored alongside the wharf.
“No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated” (Ellen Glasgow).
