Missed Field Goals

Famous quotes containing the words missed, field and/or goals:

    I missed my chance with one of the lords
    Of life.
    And I have something to expiate;
    A pettiness.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
    Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

    If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
    Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)