Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mack Brown

I said, 'Good. We'll try to win then.

I said this after the game, that it really does take all of us to win and play well.

Jack Roush

My will to win has never been stronger,

Alice Munro

It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on the prevailing wind, looking for any likely place to land, any welcome.

Alice Childress

Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you just now, prisoners fawning on you for favors, for wind and light. But now, we are free. We are up! We are off! Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring- a sustained note of power and joy.

Anne Lamott

The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?

Anne Lamott

Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.

Anne Lamott

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.

Anna Akhmatova

This land, although not my native land, Will be remembered forever. And the sea's lightly iced, Unsalty water. The sand on the bottom is whiter than chalk, The air is heady, like wine, And the rosy body of the pines Is naked in the sunset hour. And the sunset itself on such waves of ether That I just can't comprehend Whether it is the end of the day, the end of the world, Or the mystery of mysteries in me again.

Anna Akhmatova

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

Ann Voskamp

Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

Andy Pettitte

Whatever I do, I love to win. I don't care if it's tennis or ping pong, I'll kill myself to win it.

Andy Roddick

I'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry!

Andy Roddick

One little secret of the guys who have won one slam, is that we don't want other guys to win one because its like a bit of a special fraternity.

Andy Roddick

I always said if I had to pick one Grand Slam to win, it would be the U.S. Open.

Albert Finney

Youll come to see that a man learns nothing from winning. The act of losing, however, can elicit great wisdom. Not least of which is how much more enjoyable it is to win. Its inevitable to lose now and again. The trick is not to make a habit of it.

Albert Camus

the one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, {playing}

Albert Camus

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

Amanda Hocking

I only saw fire and chandeliers and smoke. No people. Not the room. Not even a time frame. Do you know how many chandeliers there are in the south wing alone? What was I supposed to do? Tell everyone to avoid chandeliers forever?

Amanda Pays

Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.

Amanda Palmer

It feels like it is a daily work and an ongoing task to undo all of the f - - g programming that I have had all my life about who I am supposed to be and how I'm supposed to look and that I'm supposed to win. It's a daily deconstruction of all that bullshit.

Annie Lennox

I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.

Annie Dillard

Even if things are as bad as they could possible be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well please our sensibilities and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and a wing.

Annie Dillard

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Annabella Sciorra

Sometimes, when you win, you lose.

Clay Aiken

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

Clayton Christensen

Quite often startups were first out of the gate with a sustaining technology. But somehow the leaders got the technology and stayed atop their industries. Sometimes they acquired the startup; sometimes they just developed the technology as a follower and used their muscle and mass to win. But they always won.

Daniel Keyes

Why am I always looking at life through a window?

D. L. Hughley

There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

Czeslaw Milosz

A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.

D. H. Lawrence

Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

D. H. Lawrence

The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought, Their abundant summery wordage silenced, caught In the grim undertow; naked the trees confront Implacable winter's long, cross-questioning brunt.