A Quote by Winifred Holtby

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

Winifred Holtby

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Civilization Defects Distressing Golf Most

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Winifred Holtby
English - Novelist
June 23, 1898 - September 29, 1935

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Aldous Huxley

Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and its defects remedied very soon.

Robert W. Hemphill

We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have, against our will, to bear with natural defects in ourselves. If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.

Philip Neri

There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing.

Ridley Scott

Golf is me and buddies out having a good time, but most of all, golf is about me and my dad. Anytime I think of golf, I think about my dad. He taught me how to hit a golf ball, and he got me playing.

Justin Timberlake

If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?

Josemaria Escriva

Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of civilization can be measured through its music, dance, drama, architecture, visual art and literature. We must give our children knowledge and understanding of civilization's most profound works.

Ernest L. Boyer

The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie, is that it represents civilization.

John Trudell

Actually, I love golf clothes! I think this is the most interesting part of golf!

Nicolas Ghesquiere

There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.

Grantland Rice

What's interesting about golf is that most athletes end up gravitating toward golf because it is such a difficult sport.

Jack Nicklaus

On the future of the U.S., or of Western civilization in general, I tend to be quite pessimistic. I would say that today I see most of the symptoms of societies on the brink of collapse, not just in the U.S., but in the tightly interconnected societies of Western civilization - now essentially world civilization.

Arthur Demarest

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

Herbert Spencer

In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises.

Mother Teresa

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

Naguib Mahfouz

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is true, it had for the most part no value, since the individual was scarcely in a position to defend it. The development of civilization imposes restrictions on it, and justice demands that no one shall escape those restrictions.

Sigmund Freud

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