Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vance Havner

I know that some are always studying the meaning of the fourth toe of the right foot of some beast in prophecy and have never used either foot to go and bring men to Christ. I do not know who the 666 is in Revelation but I know the world is sick, sick, sick and the best way to speed the Lord's return is to win more souls for Him.

Valentino Rossi

In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement.

Valentino Rossi

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test

Valentino Rossi

To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races

Roger Ailes

You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.

Robinson Cano

I don't just want to play in the playoffs. I want to win the World Series.

Robin Tunney

You don't make movies to win awards. You make movies because you want people to see them.

Robinson Jeffers

Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things. Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme, Empty darkness under the death-tent wings. She will build a nest of the swan's bones and hatch a new brood, Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.

Robinson Jeffers

O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek.

Robin Williams

It was kind of a decompression - from straight alcohol to mixed drinks to wine to spritzers - and then you're out.

Trent Dilfer

You cannot lose games in the NFL, and still win

Tracy Austin

From one match to the next, I kept on winning.

Veronica Roth

If the Dauntless knew about this, everyone would be getting in line to learn how to drive it,” he says. “Including me.” “No, they would be strapping themselves to the wings.” Christina pokes his arm. “Don’t you know your own faction?

Vince McMahon

The chances of you winning are the same as the chances of HELL freezing over.

Vince Lombardi

The coaches who win are the ones who can motivate their players. Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.

Vince Lombardi

We win our games in practice. We learn and follow the fundamentals of our game better than anyone in the league. All of our games are won in practice.

Vince Lombardi

The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.

Vince Lombardi

The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.

Vince Lombardi

Winning is not the most important thing; it's everything.

Vince Lombardi

Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don't do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.

Vince Lombardi

Everyone Has A Will To Win But Very Few Have The Will To Prepare To Win

Vijender Singh

An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.

Rebecca Solnit

Too many of us seem far too fond of narratives of our powerlessness, maybe because powerlessness lets us off the hook... But we don't need everyone on board; we don't need one magic person in office; we need ourselves. To act. It's the wind, not the weathervanes.

Robert Graves

There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility.

Rudyard Kipling

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

Rudyard Kipling

I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine.

Rudyard Kipling

If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.

Rudy Giuliani

Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors. ... History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the reverse.

Sandra Cisneros

We started an organization that's the only sub-organization of the MacArthur Foundation and we are called the Macarturos.Usually when I win something, I'm the only one of my ethnicity to get it, but this time I met all these Latinos, and I was so excited. I'd meet someone and I'd go, "Can you come to San Antonio?" And they'd go, "Oh yeah." And suddenly I had twelve people that said they would come. And I didn't know how it was going to be. And that's how the Macarturos became a reality, where these very generous geniuses come to San Antonio and work together.

Samuel Johnson

He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.

Samuel Johnson

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

Samuel Johnson

Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives.

Samuel Johnson

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.