Famous Quotes & Sayings

Glenn Beck

I've kind of come to a place to where I don't really condemn anyone for what their conscience tells them to do because I'm not happy with my choice that I'm making personally on, you know, not voting for somebody that I think can win.

Gilles Marini

I don't eat bad stuff too much but I have my glass of wine as I am French and it would be insulting not to.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

Harry Vardon

There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not.

Hart Crane

And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice.

Hannah Kearney

I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

Hank Haney

To have the opportunity to work with Tiger Woods was just so awesome. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the challenge. I enjoyed the good parts where he was winning. And I enjoyed the challenge to help him get better. But six years was enough.

Frank Zappa

Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?

Fred Rogers

Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.

George H. W. Bush

I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.

Harold Brodkey

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

Haile Gebrselassie

I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.

Haile Gebrselassie

What is important is to win.

Haile Gebrselassie

I know what I want when I start a marathon: to win! But what do you want? Make sure you're clear in advance and don't go out too fast.

Haile Gebrselassie

Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.

Greg Raymer

Chris (Moneymaker) winning that tournament has made the rest of us a lot of money.

Greg Maddux

I'd rather try and not win than not try at all

Graham Roberts

But Rangers don't need to go there and win, they need to go there and get a point. I think the hardest thing about it is there will be no supporters. Playing in an empty ground will be a problem for the players.

Graham Nelson

The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them.

Jim Butcher

All right, you primitive screwheads. Listen up. I'm Harry Dresden. I'm the new Winter Knight.

Jim Butcher

Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.

Jesse Ventura

I have an idea about voting, how about on every ballot we include "None of the above". People may laugh at that, but what that is, it is a vote of no confidence in your government and I'm willing to bet that in some elections, 'None of the Above' would win. Imagine if you won the election but lost to 'None of the Above'. Wouldn't that make you re-think your positions?

Jesse Ventura

Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.

Were here to win the race. If we get beat, we get beat.

H. G. Wells

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

A meal without wine is like a day without sun

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

Jayne Anne Phillips

If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

Jay Inslee

I talk about reducing our dependence on foreign oil. If we're buying electricity from a solar-thermal plant in Tijuana, I'm not sure we should say that's evil. If we are buying wind power from Alberta, I don't have a huge objection to that.