Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.

Eduardo Galeano

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

Ben Jonson

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

Bas Rutten

I am there for the best interests of the fighters, I want them to win. If they don’t accept that, bye bye.

Eddie Vedder

If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.

Ed McBain

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

Bob Monkhouse

I know I'm a sinner, but make me a winner!

Brett Hull

I'm known as a winner now.

Bear Bryant

Recognize winners. They come in all forms.

Alfonso Ribeiro

We are all winners here.

Alex Haley

History is written by winners.

Max Mathurin

Rene Preval has been declared the winner with 51 percent.

Charles Rangel

You can't do this without winners and losers.

Robert Kiyosaki

Cynics criticize and winners analyze.

Ang Lee

There's no winner. I think we're all winners because we're blessed. We're filmmakers. What a life.

Stephen Doyle

Now they're still 40 minutes out, and they're getting frightened,

Arron Afflalo

Obviously, it was desperation time, being down nine with three minutes to go. But three minutes is a long time with only a nine-point lead.

Dave Pelzer

I plan my life in 15-minute sections.

Alfredo Gutierrez

I would do 15 minutes in English, then go do 45 minutes in Spanish. It was a lot of work.

Pamela Gainey

She's having to play a lot of minutes even with that hand.

D. James

I don't feel fatigued at all. I can go out and play 48 minutes if they want me to.

will.i.am

I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

Steve Nash

I usually settle into a routine during the season where I shoot for about 15 or 20 minutes before and after practice, and then do the whole practice.

Cilla Black

'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world.