Herdegen Golf Quotes & Sayings

I have a very independent spirit. — Molly Ringwald

The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others. — Confucius

As astronomer Carl Sagan once aptly put it, you do not want to keep your mind so open that your brain is likely to fall out. — Massimo Pigliucci

Then he comes to the brink of a precipitous fall; that is, he comes to the point where he himself will have to be taken as standing-reserve. Meanwhile man, precisely as the one so threatened, exalts himself to the posture of lord of the earth. In this way the impression comes to prevail that everything man encounters exists only insofar as it is his construct. This illusion gives rise in turn to one final delusion: It seems as though man everywhere and always encounters only himself ... In truth, however, precisely nowhere does man today any longer encounter himself, i.e. his essence. Man stands so decisively in attendance on the challenging-forth of Enframing that he does not apprehend Enframing as a claim, that he fails to see himself as the one spoken to, and hence also fails in every way to hear in what respect he ek-sists, from out of his essence, in the realm of an exhortation or address, and thus can never encounter only himself. — Martin Heidegger

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh. — Jane Austen

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another. — Paul Bourget

As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.' — Harriet Tubman

A turquoise given by a loving hand carries with it happiness and good fortune."

Arabic proverb — Judy Hall

If you're losing a tug of war with a tiger, give it the rope. You can always buy a new one. — Max Gunther

Cowboys are always leaping from their horses in the movies, and they never get hurt."
"You forgot to roll."
"Oh. I knew I did something wrong. — Joan Johnston

Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all threads tie together in a neat bow and everything moves smoothly from one point to the next to the next. In real life, though ... nothing makes sense. Bad things happen to good people. The pious die young while the wicked live until old age. War, famine, pestilence, death all occur randomly and senselessly and leave us more often than not scratching our heads and hurling the question 'why?' into a void that provides no answers. — Peter David

We must remember how to love, remember what's important, and remember God's truth as it applies to our relationships. — Karen Kingsbury