Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hans Christian Andersen

A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny.

Francesca Lia Block

You make me feel like I have wings when you touch me.

Floyd Landis

The guy who trains the hardest, the most, wins.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I just got the will to win at life.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Some pay to see me win, some pay to see me lose, but they all pay.

Fran Lebowitz

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

George W. Romney

You can't be too right too soon and win elections.

George Washington

My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it.

George Washington

My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.

George Washington

The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command the respect of the world.

George Santayana

Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.

George McGovern

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

George McGovern

If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.

George McGovern

I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.

George Orwell

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

George Orwell

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

George Nethercutt

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

George Meredith

For singing till his heaven fills, 'Tis love of earth that he instills, And ever winging up and up, Our valley is his golden cup, And he the wine which over flows To lift us with him as he goes.

George Meredith

A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.

Neal Shusterman

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

Neale Donald Walsch

Stop trying to figure out what is 'best' for you (how you can win the most, lose the least, get what you want) and start going with what feels like Who You Are.

Neale Donald Walsch

And if we're all one, we need to stop our competition with each other. Most of the decisions we make are about survival and winning.

Neale Donald Walsch

Not to decide is to decide. Letting something go until it 'decides itself' is Life by Default. You don't want to live that way. So choose. Choose right now. Stop worrying about what you can 'lose' or how you can 'win' and just follow your joy. Where does your joy say you should go?

Neale Donald Walsch

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. You won't find glory at the center of safety, but at its edge. You won't find love at a place where you are covered, but in the space where you are exposed. You gotta take some risks. You have to not only pick up the dice, but roll'em. So go ahead, take the gamble. You have nothing to lose except the chance to win. Life is not long enough to spend it on the sidelines.

Neale Donald Walsch

Life is not about win-and-lose. Life is about being or not being, expressing or not expressing, who you are.

Nancy Pelosi

Elect us, hold us accountable, and make a judgment and then go from there. But I do tell you that if the Democrats win, and have substantial majorities, the Congress of the United States will be more bipartisan.

Nancy Pelosi

What is key for winning the election is to be able to put forth a vision for our future and how this election affects people's lives.

Nancy Pelosi

Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.

Morgan Wootten

The big thing is to make a winning effort. Im not obsessed with wins.

Morgan Wootten

You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.

Morgan Ensberg

The College World Series, that's the end-all deal as a college player. To get a chance to play in the World Series and win it, that was surreal.

Morgan Freeman

And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.