Ogletree Ordnance Quotes & Sayings

I don't like the glamour. I just like the game. — Ben Hogan

She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but all she knew about wolves is that you should never tell them how to find your grandmother's house. — Anne Ursu

For hevene myghte nat holden it, so was it hevy of hymself,Til it hadde of the erthe eten his fille.And whan it hadde of this fold flessh and blood taken,Was nevere leef upon lynde lighter therafter,And portatif and persaunt as the point of a nedle,That myghte noon armure it lette ne none heighe walles.Forthi is love ledere of the Lordes folk of hevene,And a meene, as the mair is, [inmiddes] the kyng and the commune. — William Langland

realized during the practice that a lot of what was holding me back originated from my fear of pain and suffering, and once I found myself capable of breathing in the pain and suffering of myself and others, and comfortable radiating kindness, love, and compassion, a lot of the fetters holding me back dissolved away. — Chade-Meng Tan

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
[Address at Rice University, September 12 1962] — John F. Kennedy

I'll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I'll call the unloved and make them beloved. In the place where they yelled out, 'You're nobody!' they're calling you 'God's living children. — Eugene H. Peterson

Remember: in the end, it is the merciful who obtain mercy. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people. — Shirley Brice Heath

Smoking must be harder than not smoking. For the latter does not require any action. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system. — Walter Schellenberg

They set off. Marianne had at first the advantage, but a false step brought her suddenly to the ground; and Margaret, unable to stop herself to assist her, was involuntarily hurried along, and reached the bottom in safety. — Jane Austen