Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Duncan

It always feels good to win, it's always tough to lose.

Tim Ferriss

I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought.

Tim Ferriss

Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.

Sam Huff

I had a will to win that come from being raised poor.

Saint-John Perse

....followers of trails and of seasons, breakers of camp in the little dawn wind, seekers of watercourses over the wrinkled rind of the world, o seekers, o finders of reasons to be up and be gone....

Ryoko Tani

I will try to win the Olympics gold in London.

Ronald Lauder

Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.

Ronald Reagan

You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it in the wind.

The coach should keep out of the way... He is an important figure, of course, but is more likely to lose a match than win it. Matches are won by players.

Roger Federer

One or two years ago, I didn't know who I was on court and I used to swear a lot. But now I've learned how to cope and can therefore win 10 matches in a row. I want to be remembered as a good player rather than an idiot on court.

Roger Federer

I never waited 27 years, because 27 years ago I was just born. My parents never told me, 'If you don't win Roland Garros we take you to the orphanage.

Roger Federer

Oh, my God, I don't think any player can look forward to or expect to a career of so many Grand Slam wins or title wins or being so long at the top of the game.

Roger Federer

I let the evening unfold. I'm the sort of guy who likes to sit in the chair and look at the wine glass.

Ron Paul

It's not like I'm just trying to win and get elected. I'm trying to change the course of history.

Sam Neill

Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.

Sally Rand

When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

Sally Pearson

Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

Sally Pearson

My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.

Sally Quinn

I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

Sally Phillips

I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.

Sabine Lisicki

I believed that I could still win no matter what the score was.

Ruth Pitter

We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay.

Rumi

Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do!

Rumi

Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.

Rumi

But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.

Rumi

And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

Rumi

Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone, that what died last night can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out? I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Perpetuating success or sliding into decline is the result of many intersecting forces that reinforce one another directly and indirectly. They are both cause and effect of winning or losing. Winning generates positive forces, losing generates negative forces.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Confidence makes you willing to try harder and attracts the kind of support from others that makes "winning" possible.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

Susan Orlean

I was never any good at remembering dates, but now I hardly have to. When the first bulb catalogs get delivered and the hens start laying again, that's all the notice I'll need to know that winter has passed.

Susan Estrich

Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.