Quotes about win
winter people valleys
On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile. Friedrich Nietzsche
wind abuse trying
One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."
winning roles bread
Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable. Jeane Kirkpatrick
winning going-away bachelors
Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away. Jean Harris
winter clouds shining
Even in the winter, in the midst of the storm, the sun is still there. Somewhere above the clouds, it still shines and warms and pulls at the life buried deep inside the brown branches and frozen earth. Gloria Gaither
winning rights political
Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them. Gloria Allred
winning careers grammy
One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.' Gloria Gaynor
wine sound music-is
Good music is wine turned to sound Ella Wheeler Wilcox
wine drink decline
Be hald, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all. There are to decline your nectared wine, But all you must drink life's gall.
wings world body
I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world with good results--or ill.
winning men people
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
winning people affection
The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.
wind fire rocks
Nor fire, nor rocks, can stop our furious minds, Nor waves, nor winds. Francis Quarles
wind fire soul
My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind. Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind. What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought? This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought.
wind names leader
Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of Change has blown. My own vote goes to Hugh Kingsmill as leader of this opposition.
winning race people
Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that. Hugh Laurie
winning persons competitive-person
I'm quite a competitive person, so I do quite like to win. Hugh Jackman
winning work-out may
What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.
winter dull
Dull winter will re-appear. Horace
wine wrath secret
Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.
wings lasts poverty
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty. [Lat., Laudo manentem; si celeres quatit Pennas, resigno quae dedit, et mea Virtute me involvo, probamque Pauperiem sine dote quaero.]
wings peaceful black
Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]
wine mean light
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.
winning vegetarianism salad
You don't win friends with salad. Homer
winning odor unions
Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.
wine thoughtful men
Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.
wind sea skills
She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft.
wine men wisest-man
[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.
wine dark sea
Over the wine-dark sea.
winning men grieving
But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was, when you were alive, we Argives/ honored you as a god, and now down here, I see/ You Lord it over the dead in all your power./ So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.’ I reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting,/ ‘No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!/ By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man--/ Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breathless dead.
wind white clouds
Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.
winning men hands
What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?
wine tired men
Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.