Babe Didrikson Zaharias Quotes

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• To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Character
  • True
  • Man

• There was a time when rival teams used a shift against me. They would put the second baseman on the shortstop's side of the bag, move the shortstop into the hole to his right, and have the third baseman hug the foul line. The idea was to build an infield wall against a known right-handed pull hitter.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Time
  • Me
  • Wall

• As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Dread
  • Approval
  • Thirst

• My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Dad
  • More

• The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Evil
  • Moral
  • Failure

• The Chinese believe that when there are too many policemen, there can be no individual liberty, when there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice, and when there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Justice

• I did a number of local children's theater plays growing up, but in 5th grade, I had some good times on stage making people laugh as a troll in 'The Hobbit.' That solidified my dream to be on 'Saturday Night Live,' which was hugely influential for me growing up.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • People
  • Up

• We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Fear
  • Question
  • Eyes

• The Rolls Royce was the real first car. It wasn't the first new car I got, but it was the first real car I bought that's like, 'Wow, I got this.'

  

  Meek Mill
  • Real
  • Car

• This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures.

  

  John Burnside
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Air

• I did The Sorting Hat, and it was the Gryffindor, and I was like, 'I'm not doing it again. It could be something bad.'

  

  Jared Goff
  • Bad

• It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

  

  David Brin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Mind

• The original answer defines certain conditions, ... Anything else is a different question.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant
  • Different
  • Question

• A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! … Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • Men
  • War

• Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • People
  • Important
  • Feeling

• People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • People
  • Sweet
  • Innocent

• Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Science
  • Deals

• The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

  

  Israel Zangwill
  • Lies
  • Fact
  • Surfaces

• I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable.

  

  Jeff Bingaman

• Secular cycles are the long periods - as long as decades - that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate between long-term bull and bear markets.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Long
  • Bear
  • Bull

• Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.

  

  Jack Gantos
  • Great
  • Character
  • True

• I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Hit
  • Elephant
  • Bull