Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikos Kazantzakis

Cursed be all those on land and sea who eat their fill, cursed be all those who starve yet raise no hand in protest, cursed be all the bread, the wine, the meat which day by day descends deep in the entrails of the exploited man and turns not into freedom's cry, the murderer's ruthless knife!

Nicole Kidman

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

Nasser Hussain

Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.

Nas

I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You never win an argument until they attack your person.

Miranda Kerr

We all have wings, but it is up to each one of us to have the courage to fly

Miles Teller

So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.

Johnny Manziel

The Heisman attention has definitely been a little bit of a surprise. It's been out of my hands. It's something I'm not focused on. I'm focused on the season and trying to win as many games as possible.

John Woolman

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

John Wooden

My bench never heard me mention winning. My whole emphasis was for each one of my players to try to learn to execute the fundamentals to the best of their ability. Not to try to be better than somebody else, but to learn from others, and never cease trying to be the best they could be; that's what I emphasized more than anything else.

John Wooden

Winning games, titles and championships isn't all it's cracked up to be, but getting there, the journey, is a lot more than it's cracked up to be.

John Wooden

Winning breeds winning.

John Wooden

Too many people look on outscoring someone as winning, I never tried to get that across to my players.

John Wooden

If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.

John Wooden

We don’t have to be superstars or win championships…. All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it.

John Wooden

You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game, and you can win when you're outscored.

John Ruskin

Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.

Matthew Arnold

It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them.

Matthew Arnold

Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.

Matt Taibbi

You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again.

Maxwell Maltz

This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.

Maya Angelou

Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something.

Max Scherzer

It has been calculated that one marginal win is worth $7 million and we can increase that by five percent each year to figure out the value the Nationals can expect to receive from Scherzer.

Max Beerbohm

Pessimism does win us great happy moments.

Mark Shields

Benjamin Netanyahu is no Winston Churchill. Whatever else he, is he's not a Winston Churchill. He basically violated the great rule, which is it's better to mislead the people and to lose an election than to mislead the people and win an election.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.

Marilynne Robinson

Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes are worn and hassocks are sat upon and finally everything is left where it was and the spirit passes on, just as the wind in the orchard picks up the leaves from the ground as if there were no other pleasure in the world but brown leaves, as if it would deck, clothe, flesh itself in flourishes of dusty brown apple leaves and then drops them all in a heap at the side of the house and goes on.

Matt Berninger

I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.

Matsuo Basho

Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.

Matsuo Basho

Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.

Matsuo Basho

When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.

Patricia Hewitt

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.