Louis Oosthuizen Quotes
I just go out there and play the game; I get on with things. Golf is not everything in life.
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
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Welfare became a term of opprobrium - a contentious, often vindictive area of political conflict in which liberals and conservatives clashed and children were lost sight of.
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When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.
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Gender is more of a continuum than we are willing to admit when we hit the restroom.
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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I just go out there and play the game; I get on with things. Golf is not everything in life.
