Famous Quotes & Sayings

Federico Garcia Lorca

I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind’s knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I’ve placed the eyeless head of all my desires.

Fantasia Barrino

Sometimes you have to lose to win again.

Ezra Taft Benson

Each day the forces of evil and the forces of good enlist new recruits. Each day we personally make many decisions showing the cause we support. The final outcome is certain---the forces of righteousness will win. But what remains to be seen is where each of us personally, now and in the future, will stand in this battle---and how tall we will stand. Will we be true to our last days and fulfill our foreordained missions?

Ezra Taft Benson

I say to you with all the fervor of my soul that God intended men to be free. Rebellion against tyranny is a righteous cause. It is an enormous evil for any man to be enslaved to any system contrary to his own will. For that reason men, 200 years ago, pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood - human blood - will win it back.

Eugene O'Neill

I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame; But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves, Where the rainbows play in the flying spray, 'Mid the keen salt kiss of the waves.

Euripides

Wine enlivens the human soul.

Euripides

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

Francis Beaumont

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Francesco Guicciardini

By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

Francis Bacon

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

Jennifer Capriati

To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.

Jennifer Capriati

I'm happy with what I've done but it's a challenge to try to win more.

Jennifer Capriati

What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.

Jennifer Carpenter

If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.

Jeff Gordon

When you've got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they're going to wreck.

Jeff Gordon

Racing is not what I like to do; it's winning.

Jeff Gordon

There's no greater feeling than winning a race.

Jean Rhys

I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.

Jean Rhys

He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.

Jean de La Fontaine

To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start

Jhonen Vasquez

Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.

Jhonen Vasquez

I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.

Jhumpa Lahiri

She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot.

Groucho Marx

You've forgotten those June nights at the Riviera...the night I drank Champagne from your slipper - two quarts. It would have been more but you were wearing inner soles.

Graham Chapman

Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health ... what have the Romans ever done for us? Brought peace!

Graham Greene

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.

Goose Gossage

There is nobody that wants to win more than George Steinbrenner.

Goran Ivanisevic

Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence.

Goran Ivanisevic

I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to be always Wimbledon champion.

Gil Hodges

There are only two kinds of managers. Winning managers and ex-managers.

Gerald Durrell

What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste our time singing about it. Ah, well, let's have a glass of wine, eh?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

There are in this world two kinds of natures, - those that have wings, and those that have feet, - the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.

Harper Lee

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.