Holes Quotes - Page 23

• The first 18 holes are extremely difficult.

  Matt Kuchar

  Firsts, Difficult

  "From First Hole, Accuracy and Nerves Will Be Tested" by Karen Crouse, www.nytimes.com. June 13, 2012.

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• Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

  Hayley Mills

  Learning, Golf, Games

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• ...it's the same with business. If you focus on the goal and not the process, you inevitably compromise. Businessmen who focus on profits wind up in the hole. For me, profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Wind, Goal

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• You can only play one hole at a time.

  Tom Kite

  Time, Play

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• After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We’d been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Lying, Waiting, Imagine

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• Golf is a terrible, hopeless addiction, it seems: it makes its devotees willing to trudge miles in any manner of weather, lugging a huge, incommodious and appallingly heavy bag with them, in pursuit of a tiny and fantastically expensive ball, in a fanatical attempt to direct it into a hole the size of a beer glass half a mile away. If anything could be better calculated to convince one of the essential lunacy of the human race, I haven't found it.

  Mike Seabrook

  Beer, Golf, Glasses

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• So often the pendulum contines to swing with the side that has just pulled themselves out of the hole.

  Tony Gubba

  Soccer, Football, Swings

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• If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.

  Seth Godin

  Change, Needs, Want

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• Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him that overcomes; bid it listen and tell thee whether it cannot hear the shout of those crowned saints, as of those that are dividing the spoil, and receiving the reward of all their services and sufferings here on earth.

  William Gurnall

  Keys, Promise, Suffering

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.150

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• A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light. But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.

  Al Ries

  Cancer, Light, Focus

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• Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.

  John Bell Hood

  War, Gun, Shells

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• Anyone who doesn't love animals has a serious hole in the heart.

  Laurence Overmire

  Heart, Animal, Serious

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• Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Lying, Soul, Body

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• He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - as mere holes or gaps in the living heaven - excluded and rejected wastes of heavy matter and murky air, formed not by addition to, but by subtraction from, the surrounding brightness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Islands, Air

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• If you'll quit moaning and crying, I'll use the things to make you into someone I can use in the lives of others to show them that no matter where they've been, no matter how deep the hole, no matter how painful the trial, there's hope. There is victory.

  Kay Arthur

  Hope, Victory, Use

  Kay Arthur (2009). “As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments”, p.118, WaterBrook

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• I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manfuacturer's lobby. But I also believe that when a gangbanger shoots indiscriminately into a crowd because he feels someone disrespected him, we have a problem of morality. Not only do we need to punish that man for his crime, but we need to acknowledge that there's a hole in his heart, one that government programs alone may not be able to repair.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Heart, Gun

  "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama, October 17, 2006.

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• Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'

  Peter Benenson

  Light, Darkness, Chinese

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• Shape clay into a vessel;
  It is the space within that makes it useful.
  Cut doors and windows for a room;
  It is the holes which make it useful.
  Therefore benefit comes from what is there;
  Usefulness from what is not there.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Cutting, Space

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• Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It's a crutch, that's all, and there isn't any one of us that doesn't need a crutch.

  Norman Mailer

  Love, Simple, Mind

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• A hole is nothing but what remains around it.

  Matt Rasmussen

  Chaos, Remains

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• Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires, since their senses of smell, wariness of such dangers, and ability to move through almost invisible holes is so impressive, but I think that we should not dismiss the possibility that they, also, will be harmed. These reflections do not, of course, rule out burning meat trucks. And they don't mean that when the next slaughterhouse or vivisection lab burns down, I will denounce those who carried out the burning, or that I will feel anything other than joy in my heart.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Moving, Heart, Mean

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• I'm a vegetarian. I believe that we're all equal. I ain't got no right to kill. Say a fly comes in my house, I tolerate that little a**hole.

  Russell Brand

  Believe, House, Littles

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• A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite a lot of million light years from end to end. As it closed up [...] Two hundred and thirty-nine thousand lightly fried eggs fell out of it...materializing in a large woobly heap on the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system. The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later.

  Douglas Adams

  Men, Light, Years

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• Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.

  Richard Hammond

  Car, Mexican, Lazy

  "Mexican anger over BBC 'feckless, lazy' claims" by Simon Hooper, www.cnn.com. February 2, 2011.

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• We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.

  Elif Safak

  Rabbit Holes, Encounters, Rabbits

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