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God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Of course you know the miracle of AIDS, we all do. It's the only disease that turns fruits into vegetables. — David Duke

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread. — Langston Hughes

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies. — Bobby Jones

A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history. — Mahatma Gandhi

Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth. — Ptolemy

There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course. — Watchman Nee

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key. — Jimmy Buffett

Of course, if you have thought up to now that an actor relies merely on inspiration you will have to change your mind. Talent without work is nothing more than raw unfinished material. — Constantin Stanislavski

The course of true love never did run smooth. - William Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth. — William Shakespeare

Short Courses Quotes

  • The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. — Thomas Jefferson
  • It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain. — Vladimir Lenin
  • The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles. — Rosa Luxemburg
  • I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes. — Bill Kaulitz
  • You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules. — Bobby Jones
  • Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course — Bobby Jones
  • I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless. — Keanu Reeves
  • No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public. — George McGovern
  • Even the smallest person can change the course of the future. — J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti. — Jacques Barzun

Courses Image Quotes

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. - Rudyard Kipling quote

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. — Rudyard Kipling

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism. - Michael Kinsley quote

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism. — Michael Kinsley

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. - Annie Dillard quote

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. — Annie Dillard

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. - Omar N. Bradley quote

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. — Omar N. Bradley

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. - William Shakespeare quote

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. — William Shakespeare

I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography. - Scoot McNairy quote

I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography. — Scoot McNairy

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50. - Kevin Bacon quote

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50. — Kevin Bacon

Courses quote Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you ast
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

Playing Golf Quotes

A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb. — Marilyn Monroe

I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while I realized I'd always stink. And that's when I really started to enjoy the game. — Don Rickles

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes. — Bobby Jones

Courses quote Follow one course until successful.
Follow one course until successful.

I wasn't this nervous playing golf when I was drinking. It's the first tournament I've won on the PGA Tour in a sober manner, so it's a great feeling knowing I can do it sober. I don't think two years ago I could have pulled this off. — John Daly

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth. — Bernie Mac

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it. — Bobby Jones

Courses quote Even the smallest person can change the course of the course of the future.
Even the smallest person can change the course of the course of the future.

After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules. — Bobby Jones

In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing. — Bobby Jones

I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me. — Seve Ballesteros

Golf Game Quotes

Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you do, you will only complicate and spoil your game - and encumber your locker with useless rubbish. — Harry Vardon

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point. — Payne Stewart

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe. — Lee Trevino

Courses quote Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case. — Bobby Jones

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced. — Lee Trevino

In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths. — Harvey Penick

Courses quote It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par. — Bobby Jones

For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind. — Harry Vardon

I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation. — Greg Norman

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments. — Richard Davies

Golf Quotes

As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. — Tiger Woods

I believe nicotine plus caffeine equals protein. — John Daly

Courses quote Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then I was young, eight or nine
Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then I was young, eight or nine years, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.

I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you. — Seve Ballesteros

There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not. — Harry Vardon

The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy. — Bobby Jones

This fitness thing is blown out of proportion. What am I going to do on a treadmill - smoke a cigarette and drink a diet Coke? — John Daly

When it blows here, even the seagulls walk. — Nick Faldo

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea. — Anne Sexton

Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get. — Brian Tracy

Golf Tournaments Quotes

I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family. — Terry Bradshaw

The most important shot in golf is the next one. - Ben Hogan

The most important shot in golf is the next one. — Ben Hogan

Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament. — Karrie Webb

In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to. — Pat Summerall

The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can. — Jack Nicklaus

It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do. — Rory McIlroy

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments. — Lou Holtz

When I first came on tour, I was playing for money. Now I'm playing to win golf tournaments and the money is more than I ever dreamed I could make. — Annika Sorenstam

There's no question that the galleries still like to see birdies and eagles. If you take them all away, it takes some of the dramatics, the excitement of a golf tournament and we [people] don't want to do that. — Arnold Palmer

Golf Putting Quotes

Never concede the putt that beats you. — Harry Vardon

Who can say I have a bad swing? The only thing that matters in golf is the score you put on the board. You don't have to look pretty out there, you have to win. Look at my record and tell me who has a better swing than mine. — Lee Trevino

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money. — Lee Trevino

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. — Pete Dye

Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting. — Peter Dobereiner

A good player who is a great putter is a match for any golfer. A great hitter who cannot putt is a match for no one. — Ben Sayers

The more I practice, the luckier I get. — Jerry Barber

A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed. — Henry Beard

The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it. — Bob Allen

I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

Great Golf Quotes

My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch. — Lee Trevino

It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it. — Jack Nicklaus

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about. — Bobby Jones

I never learned anything from a match that I won. — Bobby Jones

The older I get, the better I used to be. — Lee Trevino

The woods are full of long drivers. — Harvey Penick

One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot - the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something. — Peter Jacobsen

You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket. — Lee Trevino

The older I get, the better I was. — Van Dyke Parks

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst. — Sam Snead

Good Golf Quotes

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. — Mark Twain

All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf. — Harvey Penick

Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive. — Harvey Penick

I am tired of all these golfers who are happy with second place. The only one who will like you if you come in second place is your wife and your dog. And that is only if you have a good wife and a good dog. — Gary Player

John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him. — Nick Faldo

Golf is a good walk spoiled. — Mark Twain

It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot. — Nubar Gulbenkian

Golf is a game you can never get too good at. You can improve, but you can never get to where you master the game. — Gay Brewer

A strong mind is one of the key components that separates the great from the good. — Gary Player

A good golf course makes you want to play so badly that you hardly have the time to change your shoes. — Ben Crenshaw

Golf Love Quotes

All is fair in love and golf. — American Proverbs

Golf is like love. One day you think you are too old and the next day you want to do it again. — Roberto De Vicenzo

I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age. — Nora Johnson

Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game. — Phil Blackmar

My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker. — Ronnie O'Sullivan

Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling. — Madonna Ciccone

I love baseball, but being here (in the United States), I've been able to play golf every day. I can't play in Japan because every course has caddies, and the caddies all want autographs and don't want to let me golf. — Ichiro Suzuki

Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha. — Hal Boyle

Swing hard in case you hit it. — Dan Marino

Golf Clubs Quotes

If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him. — Lou Holtz

There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray. — Lee Trevino

If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota. — John W. Gardner

I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club. — Walter Hagen

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. — Sam Snead

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. — Jack Benny

Show me a golfer who doesn't have a mean streak, and I'll show you a weak competitor. — Lee Trevino

I expect to play golf until I am 90-even longer if anybody figures out a way to swing a club from a rocking chair. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

We were all born with webbed feet and a golf club in our hand. — Old Tom Morris

I know you can be fined for throwing a club, but I want to know if you can get fined for throwing a caddie? — Tommy Bolt

Golf Humor Quotes

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation. — Grantland Rice

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy. — Amy Alcott

Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens. — Bob Hope

Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them. — Kevin Costner

I was playing golf. I swung, missed the ball, and got a big chunk of dirt. I swung again, missed the ball, and got another big chunk of dirt. Just then, 2 ants climbed on the ball saying, "Let's get up here before we get killed!" — Henny Youngman

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. — Gene Perret

Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor. — Martin Sheen

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at it. — Jimmy Demaret

Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out. — Anne, Princess Royal

I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

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More Courses Quotes

Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent. — Ramana Maharshi

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To all of you I should like to say that in the course of this war you will have to acquire the experience and achieve the success which alone can build up a national tradition for our Army. An army that has no tradition of courage, fearlessness and invincibility cannot hold its own in a struggle with a powerful enemy. — Subhas Chandra Bose

The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation. — William Osler

I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life. — Immanuel Kant

It became easy for me to detach myself from the course of life, so that while my hands and mind were engaged in the common affairs of every day, my spirit maintained its attitude of communion with God. — John G. Lake

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy. — Dorothy Parker

Prayer is powerful! It fills the earth with mercy, it makes the Divine clemency pass from generation to generation; right along the course of the centuries wonderful works have been achieved through prayer. — Frances Xavier Cabrini

The Church must take right ground in regard to politics... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God... God will bless or curse this nation, according to the course Christians take in politics. — Charles Grandison Finney

Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that a complete knowledge of a thing can only be obtained by elucidating its causes and antecedents, provided, of course, such causes exist. In medicine it is, therefore, necessary that causes of both health and disease should be determined. — Avicenna

Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods. The waters in the irrigation canals of the great Indus Civilisation did not flow according to the laws of ignorance. Knowledge has always been power and wealth. — Mahathir Mohamad

Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course. — Alexander Hamilton

Power depends ultimately on physical force. By teaching people that violence is wrong (except, of course, when the system itself uses violence via the police or the military), the system maintains its monopoly on physical force and thus keeps all power in its own hands. — Theodore Kaczynski

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. — John Von Neumann

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds; it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst. — Carl von Clausewitz

Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of two circumstances: either a very sudden change of the temperament (or the bad effect of a contrary temperament) or a solution of continuity. — Avicenna

When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me and a trembling seizes me all over. — Sappho

Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity. — Neal A. Maxwell

I believe nature's a lot smarter than anyone thinks. During the course of a man's life he develops a lot of pleasures and people he cares about. Then nature takes them away one by one. It's her way of preparing you for death. — Cus D'Amato

Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow. — Sun Tzu

The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course. — Saint Boniface

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. — Man Ray

Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad. — Rene Descartes

Adam was a super being when God created him...he had dominion over the fowls of the air which means he used to fly...well of course how could you have dominion over the birds and not be able to do what they do. Adam flew into space, with one thought he would be on the moon. — Benny Hinn

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