The balls QUOTES

1 " Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered. "

― James Patterson , Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

2 " I don't know when and I don't know how, but you'll get through this. And you'll kick life in the balls just as hard as it's kicked you. "

― Hester Young

3 " ... human beings fear the unknown. So, whatever's freaking you out, grab it by the balls and say hello. "

― Justin Halpern , I Suck at Girls

4 " The acquiring of intelligence doesn't require an institution if you got the heart to seek knowledge, and the balls to use it as wisely as those who came before you. "

5 " ... And one day it dawned on me that I had spent entirely too much time waiting on you to grow a voice box.... and the balls to use it. "

― Alfa Holden , Abandoned Breaths

6 " What is success? Success isn't about making shit loads of money, success is having the balls to follow your dreams through and making it a reality, it does not matter if you make money or not. "

7 " Envision life as you're juggling 6 balls. The balls are called faith, work, family, health, friends, and integrity. But one day, you realize that work is a rubber ball. If dropped, it will bounce back. The other 5 balls faith, family, health, friends, & integrity are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be surely scuffed, nicked, or even shattered. Grasp this concept and you will have the beginnings of balance in your life. "

8 " He’s so fucking unconventionally perfect. I don’t know whether I want to kick him in the balls or lick his face. "

― Heather M. Orgeron , Boomerangers

9 " There are two kinds of people in this world: those who sweat the small stuff, and those who have the balls not to. "

10 " Last time I was on the welcome Wagon, I was holding some guy by the balls for 15 minutes while the inspector explained why should leave (Birmingham) and go home... It were really painful.

I bet it was.

'Yeah I got terrible cramp in me fingers, but he were very attentive. "

― Jim McGrath , A Death in Winter: 1963

11 " Winslow bounced over on the balls of his feet, clearly not experiencing any sort of crash. 'Aren't your guys nervous? I'm nervous as all hell.'
'There's nothing to be nervous about,' Beck said, joining them. 'Nerves are only useful when they can spur you on to work harder, faster, better. Once the work is done, they become pointless. "

― Louisa Edwards , Too Hot To Touch (Rising Star Chef, #1; Recipe for Love, #4)

12 " Sweetheart, Is today the day you run away alone in fear? Or the day you have the balls to trust in our friendship? Trust in the four of us. Together "

― Scarlett Dawn , King Hall (Forever Evermore, #1)

13 " Growing up in my family meant ambushes on your birthday, crossbows for Christmas, and games of dodge ball where the balls were occasionally rigged to explode. It also meant learning how to work your way out of a wide variety of death traps. Failure to get loose on your own could lead to missing dinner, or worse, being forced to admit that you missed dinner because your baby sister had tied you to the couch. Again. "

― Seanan McGuire , Discount Armageddon (InCryptid, #1)

14 " This is what life is about: seeing new places, meeting new people, grabbing life by the balls and squeezing until it coughs up a story worth telling. "

― Ruth Cardello , Taken, Not Spurred (Lone Star Burn, #1)

15 " She had be by the balls - literally had her fingers wrapped around my balls! Her hand fit them good, Mitch!" I can hear desire in his voice. " At times it was a little painful, I have to admit, but my balls were made to fit in her palm. Mitch, " he says, all too seriously, " I have found the keeper of my balls, Mitch. I'm ready to hand them over. "

16 " He has the memory of a convict, the balls of a fireman, and the eyesight of a housebreaker. When there is crime to fight, Landsman tears around Sitka like a man with his pant leg caught on a rocket. It's like there's a film score playing behind him, heavy on the castanets. The problem comes in the hours when he isn't working, when his thoughts start blowing out the open window of his brain like pages from the blotter. Sometimes it takes a heavy paperweight to pin them down. "

― Michael Chabon , The Yiddish Policemen's Union

17 " Giving her a slow, coaxing smile that turned the heat in the room up by a thousand degrees, he stroked her lips with the balls of his thumbs as he murmured, “Can we get back to talking about possibly inviting that werewolf for sex? "

― Thea Harrison , Spellbinder (Moonshadow, #2)

18 " He looks between the two. " Evie," he starts, as if he's explaining something to a five year old, " You do know that they can say whatever they want to on the package, right? It doesn't mean it's true." " Well, see," I counter, " You're right. But you're also wrong. I think that 95 percent of knowing you're the greatest is all about confidence. You might suspect you're the greatest, you might hope you're the greatest, but if you don't have the balls to proclaim yourself the greatest in bold packaging, and let your critics test you if they dare, then you probably aren't the greatest. Who can resist the guy who really, truly believes in himself? "

19 " His proximity, that damn smile, just makes me hot in all the right places, but also pissed as hell. I don’t know if I should knee him in the balls or hump his leg like a bitch in heat. "

― Ghiselle St. James , South Row

20 " Fair play is all well and good. But knowing how to kick 'em in the balls can get you out of a jam 9 times out of 10. "

― Lois Greiman , Unzipped (A Chrissy McMullen Mystery, #1)

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