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  • Par Odin, Thor et Tom Hiddleston ! -- Morgane J.A.
  • A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.] -- Horace
  • India me aap Prime Minister ko ek baar katghare me khada kar sakte hain. Par Sachin Tendulkar par ungli nahi utha Sakte. -- Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Par toi tout le bonheur que m'offre l'avenir Est dans mon souvenir. Through you, all the happiness that the future offers Is in my memory. -- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
  • 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
  • Forget your opponents; always play against par. -- Sam Snead
  • Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry. -- Dick Cavett
  • Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. -- Peter De Vries
  • The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. -- Peter De Vries
  • Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras. -- Margaret Truman
  • When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course. -- John Cale
  • Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage. -- Thomas Friedman
  • I like it when, you know, 3-under wins, you know, 20-under par, it just brings so many other people into contention. -- Paula Creamer
  • In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.' -- Henry Ian Cusick
  • 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
  • Check the card before you play. If you have a couple of long par 3s, put an extra hybrid in your bag. You'll be glad you did. -- Ernie Els
  • If you can hit your 3- and 5-woods with confidence from the fairway, par 5s become birdie opportunities, and 420-yard par 4s are a lot less scary. -- Ernie Els
  • As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun. -- Tiger Woods
  • 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
  • It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still. -- Siouxsie Sioux
  • When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration. -- Howard Mumford Jones
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bravest - scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends. -- Charles Studd
  • Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there. -- Ian Dunbar
  • Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply. -- Steve Jobs
  • I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas; it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived. -- Jon Meacham
  • 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
  • I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer. -- Ice Cube
  • 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
  • Tam nepietiek, kam ir par daudz. -- Rainis
  • Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence. -- Alberto Manguel
  • Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty. -- Plato
  • The education of attention would be an education par excellence -- William James
  • I always think under par. You have to believe in yourself. -- Sergio Garcia
  • It's not possible that women can be at par with men, -- Robert Mugabe
  • Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. -- Robert Nozick
  • Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury -- Mig Greengard
  • I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par. -- Chi Chi Rodriguez
  • Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive. -- Ted Malloch
  • Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's. -- Peter Hook
  • The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium. -- Edith Hamilton
  • I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious. -- Nikki Giovanni
  • The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence. -- William C. Brown
  • Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • I didn't have many ups and downs, and I just tried to par every hole. -- Tiger Woods
  • Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers. -- Ellen Goodman
  • Actually, my plan was to be 20-under par after two days but it didn't work -- Lee Trevino
  • Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years. -- Judy Woodruff
  • The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past. -- Berenice Abbott
  • Une histoire d'amour dont les épisodes ont été mélangés par un fou -- Amelie Nothomb
  • Mother ... considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage full of cobras ... -- Margaret Truman Daniel
  • Golf is based on honesty, where else would you admit to a seven on a par three? -- Jimmy Demaret
  • There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par. -- Mark Twain
  • Coaches who shoot par in the summer are the guys I want on my schedule in the winter. -- Abe Lemons
  • Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence. -- Maria Montessori
  • So, congratulations humans, your global contribution is now on par with a gigantic meteor slamming into the Earth. -- Christopher Martenson
  • Never take a mulligan on a par 3. A "hole in three" is not a fun story to relive. -- Brian Weiss
  • His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action. -- Jennifer Crusie
  • The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence. -- Kate Millett
  • Some tried to kill him; there were assassination attempts. Some hated him ... this is par for the course. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage." -- Thomas Friedman
  • Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence. -- Giulio Douhet
  • Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game. -- Tony Alessandra
  • Chipping and putting for par is like a dog chasing cars, he won't be doing it for very long. -- Lee Trevino
  • [ Woody Allen] persona in the films are so iconic; it's like on par with Groucho Marx or something like that. -- Alden Ehrenreich
  • In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost. -- Henry Ian Cusick
  • 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
  • Mary had a little putt, she needed it for par. Mary has a second putt...the first one went too far! -- Margaret Kennard
  • We have to see that all regions of India, particularly the east and west, are brought on par in development parameters. -- Narendra Modi
  • Our children must be offered an education up to par with thier potential-and equal to the needs of the Twenty-first century. -- Oliver DeMille
  • 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
  • The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par. -- Mark Twain
  • Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology. -- Thomas Thomson
  • 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
  • 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
  • How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple - I missed a four foot putt for an eleven. -- Arnold Palmer
  • I love you" begins by I, but it ends up by you. ("Je t'aime" commence par Je, - Mais il finit par toi.) -- Charles de Leusse
  • A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans. -- Italo Calvino
  • 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
  • The reason the Road Hole at St. Andrews is the most difficult par 4 in the world is that it was designed as a par 6. -- Ben Crenshaw
  • Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists. -- Haruki Murakami
  • 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
  • Admitting that Katie had taken too much blood was on par with saying an adult human had pooped their pants or eaten their own boogers! -- Faith Hunter
  • E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king. -- Blaise Pascal
  • Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances. -- Hannah Arendt
  • Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world. -- Pope Benedict XVI
  • Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le complique . Truth is too simple; it must always be arrived at in a complicated manner. -- Sydney Samuelson
  • Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • tu es noeud de relations et rien d'autre. Et tu existes par tes liens. Tes liens existent par toi. Le temple existe par chacune des pierres.(chapitre CLXXV) -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation. -- Terence McKenna
  • Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves. -- Carl Jung
  • 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
  • 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
  • In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par. -- Mark Twain
  • Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields. -- Andy Stanley
  • No matter how you play the golf course, no matter how well you play, you're going to have to make 6 and 8 footers for par. It's just a given here. -- Tiger Woods
  • C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science. -- Auguste Comte
  • In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another. -- Baruch Spinoza
  • Holivuda dzivs ir tikai tas, kas piedalas produkcija; ja kads atstaja ekranu, tad, lai cik kadreiz bijis slavens, tas bija beigts un miris un par to neviens vairs neinteresejas -- Anšlavs Eglitis
  • 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
  • Let`s lower our tax rates on our businesses so that we`re on par with the rest of the world so that we don`t keep losing our businesses. -- Paul Ryan
  • Using supernatural beings to build the perfect weapon? Intriguing idea." "Not really," I said. "They did it on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A sub-par season. I slept through half the episodes. -- Kelley Armstrong
  • Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalite ; le bien est toujours le produit d'un art. Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always a product of art. -- Charles Baudelaire
  • Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor. -- Andreas Feininger
  • A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running. -- Lucille Kallen
  • We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good -- Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • 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
  • I think the social faux par is probably what most people fear... more people fear public speaking than death and that's because we don't want to make a fool of ourselves. It's fundamental. -- Ricky Gervais
  • 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
  • Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities. -- Robert Nozick
  • 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
  • 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
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  • Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Although the Knight is generally considered to be on a par with the Bishop in strength, the latter piece is somehat stronger in the majority of cases in which they are opposed to each other. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
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