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.

Scott Adams

One "oh shit" can erase a thousand attaboys

Abdullah Ocalan

The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.

Jimmy McKinney

If we have a great tournament and we happen to win the tournament then we erase all the negative things that have been going on, especially the losing part.

Kelvin Garnett

I felt for these kids after that football game. Hopefully we can erase some of disappointment in basketball.

Greg Boyle

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

Noam Chomsky

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

Brian Gionta

Three one-goal losses are tough to swallow. We need to erase that. It's single-elimination now. It doesn't matter what our records are.

Marcelo Porto

Today we initially hoped that stocks would rise and erase yesterday's losses, but Wall Street triggered a new wave of profit-taking.

Cheryl Strayed

He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.

Sylvia Plath

I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.

Sylvia Plath

I am made, crudely, for success.

Sylvia Plath

There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.

Sylvia Plath

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.

Sylvia Plath

I was supposed to be having the time of my life.