Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. A. Milne

I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn't anymore.

Aeschylus

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

Aeschylus

Wrong must not win by technicalities.

Aeschylus

To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.

Aeschylus

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

Adrienne Rich

To become a token woman--whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters--is to become something less than a mansince men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.

Agatha Christie

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

Adrian Peterson

To be able to have that self-respect for yourself and just that feeling of, OK, I did what I could, just stay true to yourself.If you feel that this is something that's valid and you should go out there and win, then push through it no matter what the outcome is. Just know that nine times out of 10 that no matter whether you were right or you were wrong, the NFL is a business.

Adrian Peterson

At the end of the day, it's hard to win against the NFL. It's a billion-dollar business, it's hard to win against it. They can manipulate a lot of different things. They can pull strings, they know people. At the end of the day, nine times out of 10, they are going to win.

Adrian Grenier

I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing

Adam Weishaupt

If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.

Adam Pally

There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.

Adam Rapp

The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.

Adam Gopnik

Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.

Abraham Cahan

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

Abraham Cowley

Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.

Alex Rodriguez

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

Alex Rodriguez

Whether I hit .260 or .320, the bottom line here is to win.

Andrea Dworkin

The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.

To win those games, especially the way we did it, was real exciting.

I think we can win state. But I always want to take first.

I think we can win it. We're going to have to come to play. It's not going to be easy.

I think we can win it. I think we have all the pieces.

We're just going to try and win another game.

Cyril Connolly

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

Daniela Hantuchova

It was a match I lost, rather than she won [on Serena Williams winning with an apparent cramp injury at Wimbledon

Danielle Steel

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

Daniel Libeskind

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?

Dan O'Brien

Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.

Dan Marino

I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.

Dan Marino

I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.

Dan Millman

Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul', you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. Perhaps as 'mind' you can wing free of the body when it dies, hmm?