Tiger Woods (Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods) Quotes

I don't see myself a Great Black Hope. I'm just a golfer who happens to be black and Asian. It doesn't matter whether they're white, black, brown or green.

Tiger Woods

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• When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Relationship
  • Desire
  • Effort

• Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • May
  • Happen
  • Flexibility

• People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Doing
  • Need

• Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Control

• What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • King
  • Prison
  • Him

• Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Die
  • Never
  • Berlin

• Commanders-in-chief make really tough decisions.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Really
  • Decisions
  • Tough

• The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Fall
  • Road
  • First

• I've always admired people who are over-prepared. In college, I had a classmate named Norman Meyrowitz. One day he was giving a presentation on an overhead projector' and the bulb subsequently went out. The class thought the presentation was over. 'It's okay,' Norm announced . . . and he went to his backpack and grabbed an extra bulb he brought with him.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Giving
  • College

• Ah! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public's voice; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please must please to live.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Live
  • Drama
  • Fate

• For the sophisticated falsificationist a scientific theory T is falsified if and only if another theory T' has been proposed with the following characteristics :

  

  Imre Lakatos

• Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and powerful.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Powerful

• Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing-in addition to caring for man’s well-being-they were providing rights for themselves.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • Giving
  • Caring

• I think the age of 27 to 28 is ideal for the Salvadoran player to play qualifiers. That's why we've brought players who are between 23 and 24. I think in three years, they'll be well-armed to play qualifiers.

  

  Agustin Castillo
  • Why
  • Age
  • Player

• The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • Decision

• Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.

  

  Jacques Monod
  • Alone

• I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Earth
  • Sky

• The small moments I've had to talk with President Obama, I've told him, 'I get it.' His presidency was in some ways almost overshadowed by the fact that he was the first black president.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Black
  • Small
  • Moments

• If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many, many people on the other end of the world, you have absolute power and you're not prepared for it.

  

  Yaroslav Trofimov
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• People who do not know what government is are not likely to know what democracy is either, for democracy is only what the soft inside of the oyster looks like.

  

  Elmer Eric Schattschneider
  • People
  • Government
  • Democracy

• Every day, we hear of civilians being killed and wounded in violation of the basic rules of international humanitarian law and with total impunity. Instability is spreading. Suffering is growing. No country can remain untouched.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • Country
  • Growing
  • Law

• You can't think 'Dole' without thinking 'Bob Dole' and cartoons and third-person good times. He was one of those politicians: the kind you jabbed but were happy enough to have around.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Happy

• I don't see myself a Great Black Hope. I'm just a golfer who happens to be black and Asian. It doesn't matter whether they're white, black, brown or green.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Great Black Hope