Top 100 Quotes About Par
#1. My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'
Carl Crawford
#2. A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of the bookmaker and etcher, will be required to compose the cookbook par excellence.
George Ellwanger
#3. Forget your opponents; always play against par.
Sam Snead
#4. Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
Nate Corddry
#5. 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
#6. That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
Anthony Holden
#7. Some people seem to put the devil on a par with God. Actually, Satan is a fallen angel.
Billy Graham
#8. Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato
#9. Some days I feel good about my work, and sometimes I feel I've never written anything worthwhile. That's par for the course.
Donald Hall
#10. If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.
Zach Johnson
#11. More reforms will give more impetus to German industries to invest in India. German companies want to be treated on par with Indian companies, and creation of an equitable market is crucial for investments.
Angela Merkel
#12. No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
Bobby Jones
#13. The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.
Ted Malloch
#14. Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.
George Pelecanos
#15. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.
Ellen Goodman
#16. The werewolf by the moon. The wererat by money. (Loup garou par la lune. - Rat garou par les thunes.)
Charles De Leusse
#18. Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.
Thomas Friedman
#19. The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have.
[Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.]
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#20. President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts.
Rosa DeLauro
#21. The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
Peter De Vries
#22. Education, they [philosophers] felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to reconcile order which is not oppression with freedom which is not license.
Leo Strauss
#23. Librarians were somewhat on a par with God-who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many different types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.
Jodi Picoult
#24. You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.
Amy Alcott
#25. There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.
Charles De Gaulle
#26. I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.
Larry Hagman
#27. Iraq." As much as twenty percent of returning veterans from Iraq had post-traumatic stress, some thought even more. Aiden's anxiety was par for the course. Duncan wondered why he hadn't gotten therapy at the VA.
J.M. Madden
#28. She was indeed the literature I thought she would be, on par with excellence and not-so-readable.
Kavipriya Moorthy
#29. There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving.
Jacques Ellul
#30. I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
#31. The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives.
Matt Mullenweg
#32. It was funny how we thought education to be the great gilded key which would solve all problems, eliminate all poverty and disease, eradicate differences between social classes, and bring the children of okra-planters up to par with the children of emperors.
Pat Conroy
#33. Coaches who shoot par in the summer are the guys I want on my schedule in the winter.
Abe Lemons
#34. The piano is the social instrument par excellence ... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.
Jacques Barzun
#35. Par exemple! I never had to ask. You were always there under my feet, like a troublesome cat." "You mean like an adoring dog. And just as soon as Ratignolle appeared on the scene, then it WAS like a dog. 'Passez! Adieu! Allez vous-en!
Kate Chopin
#36. Between you and me, it's nice to have it affirmed now and again. It's good to keep your skills up to par, don't you agree?
Ashlan Thomas
#37. When it came to all around ring generalship, Benny Valgar was on a par with Benny Leonard, though Leonard packed the better punch
Ray Arcel
#38. But you will no doubt agree that the very best staff plans are those which give clear margins of error to allow for those days when an employee is ill or for one reason or another below par.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#39. Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.
Gagan Narang
#40. Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.
Seth Berkley
#41. Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is
par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.
Maria Montessori
#42. It's going to you know, I can't go out there and shoot par and win. Everybody is playing well, and I think you'll have to go out tomorrow and have 4, 5, 6 under par probably.
Raymond Floyd
#43. Where you can make up ground is if the wind blows and your opponents make big numbers. I think you can shoot three, four, five-under par. But to make up a six, seven or eight-shot lead, that will be tough without the leaders coming back.
Phil Mickelson
#44. There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.
[Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]
Jean De La Bruyere
#45. Recklessness is par for the course when you're 25.
Susan Minot
#46. The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun. (L'eau ne brille que par le soleil. - Et c'est toi qui es mon soleil.)
Charles De Leusse
#47. While my six-song EP is unlikely to set any sales records, it's one of my biggest personal achievements - on par with starting my own company. On par with selling my own company.
Shawn Amos
#48. Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
Dick Cavett
#49. Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury
Mig Greengard
#50. I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.
Nikki Giovanni
#51. No matter how different our First Ladies have been - and as individual women they have ranged from recluses to vibrant hostesses to political manipulators on a par with Machiavelli - they have all shared the unnerving experience of facing a job they did not choose.
Margaret Truman Daniel
#52. Whoever entered the political realm had first to be ready to risk his life, and too great a love for life obstructed freedom, was a sure sign of slavishness. Courage therefore became the political virtue par excellence.
Hannah
#53. In philosophy, phenomenology is the study of the structures of experience and consciousness. Wine blind tasting is the best phenomenology, phenomenology par excellence, returning us from our heads into the world, and, at the same time, teaching us the methods of the mind.
Neel Burton
#54. Speak not of Everam and Nie, Par'chin. You believe in neither." "And still better at your religion than you!
Peter V. Brett
#55. He was your usual man when it came to romance, which is to say he couldn't recite Baa Baa Black Sheep when sober, whereas when drunk, sixteen cantos of Byron's Don Juan was par for the course.
Tyne O'Connell
#56. The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
Bobby Jones
#57. You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its place as the par excellence of intellectual activity. Smart people in search of a challenging board game might try a game called Go.
Hans Berliner
#58. Par for the course when it comes to the Branch. They're always holding people prisoner, and people are always trying to break free.
Jennifer Rush
#59. Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#60. The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.
William C. Brown
#61. If we are to wield great magic, then let us learn from great teachers: the alchemists -- magicians par excellence.
Lawren Leo
#62. We become new if we let ourselves be grasped and shaped by the new Man, Jesus Christ. He is the new Man par excellence. In him the new human existence became reality and we can truly become new if we deliver ourselves into his hands and let ourselves be moulded by him.
Pope Benedict XVI
#63. Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.
Alberto Manguel
#64. Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.
Margaret Truman
#65. The old gentleman refuses to have the telephone which he regards as a device of the devil, and on a par with radio, television, cinema organs and jet planes, so I had to take a chance of finding him at home.
Agatha Christie
#66. We must accept the capitalistic stage in social evolution as about on a par with the earlier monkey stage. The human had to pass through those stages in its rise from the mire and slime of low organic life. It was inevitable that much of the mire and slime should cling and be not easily shaken off.
Jack London
#67. Most of the stuff I've written has never even gotten made. It's par for the course. It's a great living, but it also gets very frustrating.
Scott Aukerman
#68. If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
Octavio Paz
#69. A lot of rappers been putting out a lot of sub-par visuals. I feel like the visuals could be better.
ASAP Ferg
#70. The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will ... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.
William James
#71. A great principle of moral advancement, on par with "Love thy neighbor" and "All men are created equal," is the one on the bumper sticker: "Shit happens.
Steven Pinker
#72. Golf is based on honesty, where else would you admit to a seven on a par three?
Jimmy Demaret
#73. As any mom knows, having a baby is an extremely creative act and to love and create a baby, it's on par with any other creative act that we could come up with.
Ani DiFranco
#74. It's not possible that women can be at par with men,
Robert Mugabe
#75. Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#76. When words run dry,
he does not try,
nor do I.
We are on par.
He just is,
I just am
and we just are
Lang Leav
#77. Mary had a little putt, she needed it for par. Mary has a second putt ... the first one went too far!
Margaret Kennard
#78. The hunt for spouses is an activity on a par with fox-hunting or hawking, though the weapons and dramatis personae differ. Just as grizzled old men know the habits of hares and quail, so do elegant society gossips know every titbit about the year's eligible men and women.
Marie Brennan
#79. Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.
Sam Kean
#80. I got no pride on the hole. It's a par-5 and I play it that way. A four is a birdie.
Lee Trevino
#81. L'amoureux qui n'oublie pas quelquefois meurt par exce' s, fatigue et tension de me moire (tel Werther). The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
Roland Barthes
#82. I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate - it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.
Arnold Schoenberg
#83. When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
Dan Jenkins
#84. Relaxing is important; I would like to do more! Golf is a pretty good attempt, but good television, I find, is a great way to chill out and let it do the thinking for you. As long as the programme has got some substance and is well made, happy as a par round of 72!
Mark Hadlow
#85. The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone.
[Fr., Le commencement et le declin de l'amour se font sentir par l'embarras ou l'on est de se trouver seuls.]
Jean De La Bruyere
#86. They, OLDEFO (Old Established Forces), carry out l'exploitation de l'homme par 'homme (the exploitation of man by man). Do not let them live, so that there's no colonialism anymore in the world.
Sukarno
#87. Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford's.
Timothy Noah
#88. Pain teaches, Par'chin, Jardir had once told him, and so we give it freely. Pleasure teaches nothing, and so must be earned.
Peter V. Brett
#89. A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.
Mahatma Gandhi
#90. Why should I help you?" Jardir asked. "Because," the Par'chin said, "we're going to capture a mind demon and make it take us to the Core. "It's time we brought the fight to the alagai.
Peter V. Brett
#91. When you look into the eyes of your children and grandchildren, when you picture their greatness and potential, do you feel that they are getting the education that is up to par with who they were born to become?
Oliver DeMille
#92. Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat in a par with god
who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many diffrent types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to fknd, where to look, how to see
Jodi Picoult
#93. Schoolwork came kind of natural to me, but when I brought home a grade that wasn't up to par, my parents let me know it.
Chris Bosh
#94. It's also important to reject any feelings of compulsion, guilt or negativity about sub-par or missed workouts.
Mark Sisson
#95. I was fighting it left all day, just enough to get myself in difficult positions to get up and down. The par 5s have been good to be all week, and the three places I missed, I didn't get good lies.
Darren Clarke
#96. Teens are desperate to have access to and make sense of public life; understanding the technologies that enable publics is just par for the course.
Danah Boyd
#97. Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept "impure", is the crime par excellence against life
is the real sin against the holy spirit of life
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. So, congratulations humans, your global contribution is now on par with a gigantic meteor slamming into the Earth.
Christopher Martenson
#99. If you are only what you are,
You at least have a chance
Not to outsmart,
But be on a par with yourself
And that is worth trying.
Dejan Stojanovic
#100. Chad was in the right spot. He got a little aggressive with the third shot there. He probably didn't want that putt he had there for the par. And you don't want to put it back there where Casey and Sergio did because you have 20 feet of break there.
Hal Sutton
