Bernard Darwin Quotes

Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one.

Bernard Darwin

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• I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

  

  Kage Baker
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• All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  

  Hannah Kent
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• There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
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• I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

  

  Kailash Kher
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• I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
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• First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

  

  Nadia Giosia
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  • Truth
  • Happy

• When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Win
  • See
  • Run

• You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • People
  • Tired
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• We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer.

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• A steady job is at least as deleterious to the spirit of bachelorhood as a steady date. Some jobs are worse than actual wives.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job

• Indeed, it is not too much to say that the normal relation of States is war.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • War

• The President is an elected king, but the fact that he is elected has proved to be of far less significance in the course of political evolution than the fact that he is pragmatically a king.  …  Kings have often been selected this way in European history, and the Roman Emperor was regularly chosen by election.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • History
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• For every laugh, there should be a tear.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Should
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  • Tear

• The Olympics are an event manipulated into misleading people into believing that we have entered a new, successful and harmonious period in our history. This is not true.

  

  Ai Weiwei
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• In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.

  

  Leland Ryken
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• Fibers made on Earth, and thus made in the presence of gravity, have impurities and defects in the glass that adversely affect transmission speed and quality.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Earth
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• I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Important

• I used to live on Riverside Park in New York, on the Upper West Side.

  

  Kevin Bacon
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• I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.

  

  Colin Wilson
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• The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

  

  Charles Babbage
  • May
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• The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Men
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  • Light

• I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.

  

  William Hague
  • Thinking
  • Moments
  • Military

• Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one.

  

  Bernard Darwin
  • Wise
  • Golf
  • Minds