Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Joyce

Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

James Joyce

White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

James Joyce

What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?

James Joyce

When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre. The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street.

James Russell Lowell

The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.

James Russell Lowell

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

James Harden

I'm with Houston now. I just have to come in here and play hard and win games.

James Harden

This is a business and everything happens for a reason. I'm going to just to play hard, try to play hard and do whatever it takes to win.

Laurence Sterne

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

Laurence Sterne

Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.

Larry Holmes

Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.

Lamar Odom

I'm one of those players that I think I can do what's asked of me. Whether it's putting the ball in the basket, rebounding the ball, diving on the floor, making other people better, I'm willing to do anything just to win.

Lamar Alexander

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

Kyle Petty

Jack Roush is the only guy that could keep Matt Kenseth from winning races.

Libba Bray

The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.

Lester B. Pearson

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

Friedrich Schiller

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

Friedrich Schiller

Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

Friedrich Schiller

Wine invents nothing; it only tattles.

Friedrich Schiller

He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.

Frederick Soddy

The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I pledge you, pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage. This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The American People in their Righteous Might will win through to Absolute Victory.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

George Foreman

I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.

Johnny Winter

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record

Jojo Moyes

There is a whole lot more to life than winning.

Jon Bon Jovi

You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose

Johnny Weissmuller

With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.

Johnny Miller

Seve wore his emotions on his sleeve. You could see how much the guy cared about winning.