Golfstrokes Quotes & Sayings

Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard. — Winston Churchill

When something looks enough like something else that people watching don't know what it is they're looking at. — Neil Gaiman

The common where we had walked the previous evening was a deserted tract of land, typical of Surrey, looking as if it might be miles from any habitation, while only a few deciduous trees divided it from country studded with bungalows. Some of the land showed traces of heath fires, charred roots and stones lying about on the blackened ground. Walking there was not at all like being in the country. Agriculture seemed as remote as in a London street. This waste land might have been some walled-in space in the suburbs where business men practised golfstrokes; or the corner of a cinema studio used for shooting wilderness scenes. It had neither memories of the past nor hope for the future. — Anthony Powell

Perhaps I was being picky, but I really didn't think being able to spell orgasm without being spotted a vowel was asking too much. — Summer Daniels

I have no desire to drink anymore. I just don't want to feel altered. — Alison Rosen

Couldn't something temporary be done with a teapot? — Charles Dickens

But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Only one that made me want more. But my head wound started bleeding and he made me lie down. — Suzanne Collins

He didn't think she could stand touching and untouching him again. The next time she ripped herself away, she'd lose some skin. — Rainbow Rowell

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed. — Julien Green

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well. — Robert Herrick

I would walk the way and accept the risks I have counted, rather accepting my failure. — M.F. Moonzajer

I still had the tug of a dreamer inside me. — M O Walsh

About a month later, Riggins changed his mind. In an interview with the police, he said he was incorrect about Ron Williamson, that in fact the man he heard doing the confessing was Glen Gore. — John Grisham

The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms. — William Bennett