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Even when people realize they have a soft tissue injury, they often carry on with their program and whistle past the graveyard, hoping it gets better with time, more often than not, it just gets worse and worse until it hurts badly enough that the person simply can't train due to the pain. – Mike Matthews	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much, they're noisy. They kill the birds. You want to see a bird graveyard ? Go under a windmill someday. You'll see more birds than you've ever seen in your life. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 2 years ago
As expected, they dodged the question, they seem to be whistling past the graveyard at this point. – Hindenburg Research	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Make no mistake : the era of Mitch McConnell's legislative graveyard is over. – Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Afghanistan is the Graveyard of Empires. Afghanistan is a swamp, the more you move, the more you bog down. – Suhail Shaheen	added by anonymous 3 years ago
It's like visiting a graveyard. – Yuji Onuma	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
At the start we struggled, firstly with acceptance of the idea (of women's football), and then with the fact that we couldn't even find a pitch to train on, the union gave us a space, not even really a pitch, but we cleaned it up and made it into one. We named it the graveyard, because anyone who came to play us there would lose. – Duria Taqialdin	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The church is not supposed to be a graveyard, it is supposed to be a temple of celebration and worship and the beauty is to be able to express our love to God, even when things are not perfect in our lives. – Andrew Adeleke	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
One of my peeves is that the press always says, 'Oh, well, the voters are just frustrated and angry.' And they just use those stupid graveyard words over and over again. I mean, what we're talking about here in the Republican Party is, I would say ... racism, gullibility. I mean, words that are less flattering than frustrating and angry. – Mark Leibovich	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Whether it is a graveyard depends on whether a country seeks hegemony. – Li Shaoxian	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Middle East is a touchstone for major powers, whether it is a graveyard depends on whether a country seeks hegemony. – Li Shaoxian	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It’s completely coincidental – the context is unusual, there are historical records that say there was a church and graveyard in the area, but there are no remains visible today. – Marion Dowd	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It looks like a graveyard here, even those houses that have not been flattened have developed cracks. People are too afraid to go into them. We are still feeling the aftershocks that makes people terrified. – Aula Bahadur Ale	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We read reports about a German geology student who in the 1970s found fragments of bone, but didn't know what to make of them, we went back to the site and found that there weren't just a few fragments, but a mass graveyard! – Steve Brusatte	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We have a site where a lot of these animals died together and were preserved together, so, basically, it's a mass graveyard. – Steve Brusatte	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them! – Calvin Coolidge or Woodrow Wilson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge. – Erich Fromm	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. – J. Frank Dobie	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living. – Andrew Schneider	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Even when people realize they have a soft tissue injury, they often carry on with their program and whistle past the graveyard, hoping it gets better with time, more often than not, it just gets worse and worse until it hurts badly enough that the person simply can't train due to the pain.

– Mike Matthews

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much, they're noisy. They kill the birds. You want to see a bird graveyard ? Go under a windmill someday. You'll see more birds than you've ever seen in your life.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As expected, they dodged the question, they seem to be whistling past the graveyard at this point.

– Hindenburg Research

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Make no mistake : the era of Mitch McConnell's legislative graveyard is over.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Afghanistan is the Graveyard of Empires. Afghanistan is a swamp, the more you move, the more you bog down.

– Suhail Shaheen

added by anonymous
3 years ago

It's like visiting a graveyard.

– Yuji Onuma

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

At the start we struggled, firstly with acceptance of the idea (of women's football), and then with the fact that we couldn't even find a pitch to train on, the union gave us a space, not even really a pitch, but we cleaned it up and made it into one. We named it the graveyard, because anyone who came to play us there would lose.

– Duria Taqialdin

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The church is not supposed to be a graveyard, it is supposed to be a temple of celebration and worship and the beauty is to be able to express our love to God, even when things are not perfect in our lives.

– Andrew Adeleke

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

One of my peeves is that the press always says, 'Oh, well, the voters are just frustrated and angry.' And they just use those stupid graveyard words over and over again. I mean, what we're talking about here in the Republican Party is, I would say ... racism, gullibility. I mean, words that are less flattering than frustrating and angry.

– Mark Leibovich

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Whether it is a graveyard depends on whether a country seeks hegemony.

– Li Shaoxian

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Middle East is a touchstone for major powers, whether it is a graveyard depends on whether a country seeks hegemony.

– Li Shaoxian

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It’s completely coincidental – the context is unusual, there are historical records that say there was a church and graveyard in the area, but there are no remains visible today.

– Marion Dowd

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It looks like a graveyard here, even those houses that have not been flattened have developed cracks. People are too afraid to go into them. We are still feeling the aftershocks that makes people terrified.

– Aula Bahadur Ale

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We read reports about a German geology student who in the 1970s found fragments of bone, but didn't know what to make of them, we went back to the site and found that there weren't just a few fragments, but a mass graveyard!

– Steve Brusatte

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We have a site where a lot of these animals died together and were preserved together, so, basically, it's a mass graveyard.

– Steve Brusatte

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

– Calvin Coolidge or Woodrow Wilson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

– Erich Fromm

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

– J. Frank Dobie

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

– Andrew Schneider

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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