Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Allman

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.

Eric Alterman

The word liberal has been employed as the political equivalent of an untreatable but potentially containable social disease -- the kind that could be contracted merely by going to a foreign movie or ordering a decaf latte, or worse, a glass of French wine.

Eric Alterman

Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.

Epictetus

So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or not, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and wine at your will. Then, in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, to be severely thrashed, and after all of these things, to be defeated.

Emily Bronte

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

Emily Giffin

You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors.

Emily Dickinson

You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.

Emily Dickinson

There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.

Emily Dickinson

You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!

Emily Dickinson

The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas.

Emily Dickinson

I tasted - careless - then - I did not know the Wine Came once a World - Did you? Oh, had you told me so - This Thirst would blister - easier - now

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Ellen Swallow Richards

I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open.

Ella Maillart

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

Regis Philbin

And if I don't win it, there's something wrong.

Edward St Aubyn

The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant.

Holly Black

We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.

Hermann Maier

If I remain healthy, I can win more races, but I don't think so much about setting new records. I'm already proud to have become the leading Austrian World Cup racer.

Hermann Maier

I like to win. If I lose, I'm not very happy.

Hermann Maier

I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O lovely river of Yvette! O darling river! like a bride, Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide. O lovely river Yvette! O darling stream! on balanced wings The wood-birds sang the chansonnette That here a wandering poet sings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The swallow is come! The swallow is come! O, fair are the seasons, and light Are the days that she brings, With her dusky wings, And her bosom snowy white!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

Henri Nouwen

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

Ho Chi Minh

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.