Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vijender Singh

An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.

Rebecca Solnit

Too many of us seem far too fond of narratives of our powerlessness, maybe because powerlessness lets us off the hook... But we don't need everyone on board; we don't need one magic person in office; we need ourselves. To act. It's the wind, not the weathervanes.

Robert Graves

There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility.

Rudyard Kipling

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

Rudyard Kipling

I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine.

Rudyard Kipling

If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.

Stuart Wilde

To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb.

Stone Gossard

You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.

Stewart Cink

That the win came only days after the Ryder Cup announcement was not a coincidence. Being a captain's pick is a huge honor, and I was very flattered by that, ... but once the Ryder Cup race was over at the PGA, I felt as if there was a burden lifted and I was able to focus on what was at hand this week.

Stewart Udall

As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.

Stewart Udall

Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

Steve Jordan

Good music grows with age like a fine wine it's gets better and better over time.

Steve Kerr

Yeah, I know there's been all this talk this year especially about the 3-point shot and can you win shooting it. There's a lot of different styles that can work. You have to base it on your own personnel.

Steve Jobs

Innovation is the only way to win.

Steve Jobs

You can't win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate it to customers.

Steve Jobs

You've probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind of you and you can't breathe. That's how I felt.

Steve Jobs

The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.

Steve Jobs

I think right now it's a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

Steve Carlton

Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.

Steve Coppell

People talk about the prestige of beating records but prestige never bought me dinner in a restaurant. It's winning games that does that.

Steve Coogan

If you're driving your car and someone winds the window down and gives you the finger and calls you an asshole, instead of giving him the finger back and calling him an asshole back, you just pull a funny face, and he doesn't know how to react to that, because you're using different rules.

Stephen Potter

Never say the number because it suggest that you are unable to pronounce the name of the wine you are ordering.

Stephen Moyer

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television. That was cheap. That was selling out. I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.

St. Jerome

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young

Sri Chinmoy

Who is the winner? Not he who wins but he who has established his cheerful oneness with the result, which is an experience in the form of failure or success, a journey forward or a journey backward.

Sophia Loren

I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

Rosie Perez

Sometimes when you win, you really lose. And sometimes when you lose, you really win. And sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie. And sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose. Winning or losing is all one organic mechanism, from which one extracts what one needs.

Roger Rosenblatt

Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.

Roger Clemens

Going to Omaha for the College World Series - the people there are tremendous - huge crowds and a lot of excitement. I still remember those days - you make a lot of friends that you never forget when you win a championship like that

Russ Feingold

The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.

Rush Limbaugh

Look at Jeb Bush, $115 million and Jeb actually stated in December 2014 that he was going to win this primary by not winning it. He was going to win it without winning base voters. They have made it clear they want nothing of their base. They're embarrassed of their base.

Rush Limbaugh

The ideas that accompany that victory, the ideas and the policies that are related to those ideas that are implemented after you win the election. And then it's not just one election; you have to keep winning elections. You have to keep defeating liberals, and it's the same thing here in the Brexit vote.

Rush Limbaugh

Even if Donald Trump wins, the establishment's not gonna go down a hole. The establishment's not gonna slink away in defeat. The establishment is gonna look at this as one inexperienced buffoon who happened to get elected versus all of them who know the ropes inside and out of Washington, and they're gonna make it their objective to deny this guy anything and everything that represents anything he campaigned on.