Sir Nicholas Alexander Faldo (Nick Faldo) Quotes
John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him.
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It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?
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In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.
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A decent world is built upon small acts of kindness.
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I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
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Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.
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When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that there is life all over the place, that the universe is teeming with it, but the scientific facts on the ground haven't really changed.
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In the chapter called "On Being a Woman in Politics," we have to come to grips with the endemic sexism and misogyny. Of course, it's not just in politics. It's in business. We have seen a lot of that coming out of Silicon Valley, and it's in the media, it's in culture. We know that.
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You can't base your life's decisions on potential future regrets.
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Just as war is waged with the blood of others, fortunes are made with other people's money.
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Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.
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...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.
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We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.
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We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.
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Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.
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We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.
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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
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There was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth.
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John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him.
