Kritisch Quotes

#1. The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.

Arnold Palmer

#2. My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children.

Jonas Gahr Store

#3. The mountains were there and so was I.

Maurice Herzog

#4. By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure.

Ravi Zacharias

#5. Too bad for Dallyn she'd been cast to look good in a leather bathing suit, not for her muscles. Size mattered. Jane hit her again and the impact sent the smaller woman flying backwards into the river.

Cassandra Gannon

#6. The brain's dense thicket of interrelationships, like those of history or art, does not yield to the reductivist's bright blade. (91)

Thomas Lewis

#7. No matter where; of comfort no man speak:
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth

William Shakespeare

#8. We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

Neil Sheehan

#9. Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God ... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#10. Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping.

Marc Jacobs

#11. Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.

Grace Jones

#12. In August 1914, my father was called to war and then taken prisoner. He died in captivity in Germany on March 27, 1915. My youth - indeed, my entire life - was deeply marked by this, directly and indirectly.

Maurice Allais