Famous Quotes & Sayings

Danielle Steel

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

Daniel Libeskind

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?

Dan O'Brien

Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.

Dan Marino

I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.

Dan Marino

I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.

Dan Millman

Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul', you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. Perhaps as 'mind' you can wing free of the body when it dies, hmm?

Dan Millman

Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.

Cornelia Funke

Power. Intoxicating. Like a fine wine.

Cornel West

The black church is dormant, much of the community is dormant. If the black church is leaning toward the right, much of the community is leaning toward the right. If it is leaning in the left wing direction having repercussions.

Cornel West

The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his anger. Because Obama really does get upset about progressives.

Cormac McCarthy

Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.

Colum McCann

I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.

Cliff Lee

I just play to win. I play to be competitive; that's it. I think every player hopes that they do something special that everyone remembers later in life, or whatever. But that's not why we're playing. At least, that's not why I play.

Cliff Robertson

The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'

David Steel

I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.

David Pleat

I'm not too sure how much you get for winning the Champion's League, but it's definitely 10 million euros.

David Lloyd

Wimbledon is getting a bit too like Royal Ascot. It's not what happens or who wins so much, as what clothes do I have on.

David Lloyd George

I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to rejoice at greatly. But I also say that I can see more in the knowledge that America is going to win a right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. . . . It would have been a tragedy for mankind if America had not been there, and there with all her influence and power.

David Hare

The majority don't like me before the curtain goes up, and I always have to win them.

David Hare

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

David Chalmers

How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?

Curtis Joseph

The lack of sweat to get a win is probably a record for me.

Curt Schilling

I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.

Curt Schilling

I'd like to think I did well. I'd like to think that, if I had a must-win game, the guys I played with would want me to have the ball. But no, I don't think I deserve to be in the Hall of Fame.

Curtis Jackson

I need you to pray for me; I need you to care for me. I need you to want me to win. I need to know where I'm heading, because I know where I've been.

Corey Perry

Getting to the playoffs is more important than winning an award.

Corey Dillon

I just want to be in a winning situation. That's the whole thing. It's nothing financial.

Confucius

The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.

Confucius

It's only in winter that the pine and cypress are known to be evergreens.

Confucius

Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.

Confucius

The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.

Daniel Woodrell

I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.