Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was a must win for us. We really wanted it bad. We really didn't play like it.

It was important. It's one of the wins we need to try and make districts.

It's a big win because now we can get the recognition we deserve. They don't give up at all.

Vince Carter

It's winning by any means. Sometimes it's not going to be a pretty game. Things are not going to work like you want them to. But we were able to find a way.

I want to be on that first team. But that comes with winning games, and that's my first priority.

They could win it or we could get fourth.

Suzanne Yoculan

They can do that and still win championships.

They are going to do everything they can to win this game.

They are wintertime tales. Wintertime is when it's story time.

It makes me very excited. Hopefully, we'll be back and we can win a championship.

It's going to be an unpredictable winner for sure. It's up for grabs.

For a change, you've got the wind at the back of the IPO market,

It's only going to wind up in court.

It's surprising. We've got a lot of young talent. That's a big win for us.

It's more of a recognition thing. They tell us who the winner is.

Lolo Jones

It took Dan Jansen, the speed skater, four Olympics to win a medal-a gold one at that!-but he never gave up. I won't, either.

Lolo Jones

I never have prayed to win a gold medal at Olympics and never will. The Lord is my Shepard and I shall not want. May His will be done.

Lois Wyse

Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

Logan Pearsall Smith

What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment, or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse? No, what it is really most like is a spider's web, insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind, and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies. And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence, sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul.

LL Cool J

You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.

Mao Zedong

The masses in any given place are generally composed of three parts, the relatively active, the intermediate and the relatively backward. The leaders must therefore be skilled in uniting the small number of active elements around the leadership and must rely on them to raise the level of the intermediate elements and to win over the backward elements.

Lynne Truss

Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?

Lucy Larcom

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the enchanting realms beyond-only a glimpse-but those glimpses have always made life worthwhile.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.

Lou Gehrig

I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

John Gay

Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us, And fires us With courage, love and joy. Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on earth desirous?

John Gay

Some folks of cider make a rout And cider's well enough no doubt When better liquors fail; But wine, that's richer, better still, Ev'n wine itself (deny't who will) Must yield to nappy ale

John Gay

Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.

John Gay

Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread, Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display, To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; Or sweating slaves support the shady load, When eastern monarchs show their state abroad; Britain in winter only knows its aid, To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.

John Florio

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

John Fowles

The best wines take the longest to mature.