Quotes about win
wings world ghost
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings. Gerard Manley Hopkins
winning russia germany
If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible. Harry S Truman
winning self victory
If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-d iscipline.
winning games benefits
Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there. J. Paul Getty
winning doe resilient
In the end, love wins. It does win. We know it wins. When a person dies, love isn’t turned off like a faucet. It is an amazingly resilient part of us. J. K. Rowling
wings lavender looks
Look, why don't you go talk to Ron about all this?" Harry asked. "Well, I would, but he's always asleep when I go and see him!" said Lavender fretfully. "Is he?" said Harry, surprised, for he had found Ron perfectly alert every time he had been up to the hospital wing.
wine drunk black
As he followed Bill back to the others a wry though came to him, born no doubt of the wine he had drunk. He seemed set on course to become just as reckless a godfather to Teddy Lupin as Sirius Black had been to him.
wine glasses pigs
Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?" "Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?" "I forge’ the details," Hagrid chortled.
window professor-mcgonagall break
Our Headmaster is taking a short break," said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window.
winning thinking long
Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch first.
winning forever wimbledon
Not winning at Wimbledon is not going to bother me forever. Ivan Lendl
winning doubt gone
Once you win, you have no doubt that you can win. So you have gone through it once, and you can do it again.
wings perfect bird
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly. Ivan Pavlov
wine world realizing
You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere. H. G. Wells
wind cities tree
And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens ...
winning people influence
All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine. H. L. Mencken
wine character men
Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what is commonly regarded as an excess of sin is very much more admirable than the minority distinguished by an excess of virtue. My experience of the world has taught me that the average wine-bibbler is a far better fellow than the average prohibitionist, and that the average rogue is better company than the average poor drudge, and that the worst white-slave trader of my acquaintance is a decenter man than the best vice crusader.
winning wings free-spirit
It seems to me that society usually wins. There are, to be sure, free spirits in the world, but their freedom, in the last analysis, is not much greater than that of a canary in a cage. They may leap from perch to perch; they may bathe and guzzle at their will; they may flap their wings and sing. But they are still in the cage, and soon or late it conquers them.
winning boys schedules
When I see a short schedule, my question to the director is, are you really comfortable with this, or are you doing it to be a good boy? At the end, you only win the medal if the film is good, you don't win a medal if the movie is on time. Guillermo del Toro
winning knows
I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything. Greg LeMond
winning say-anything finished
When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.
winning law win-or-lose
Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose. Gilbert Parker
wind mills
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes. George Herbert
wine
Wine-Counsels seldome prosper.
wine cost
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.
wine enemy firsts
Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy). [Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy.]
wine
Wine ever paies for his loding.
wine tables
To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine.
wine fishing pot
To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
window ready fairs
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
winter men way
The life of man is a winter way.
wind sides
Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.
winter bird
One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie.