Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Begala

I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.

Paul Begala

Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it.

Matt Groening

I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow and to the republicrats for which they scam: one nacho, underpants with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.

Mary Wortley Montagu

And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.

Mary J. Blige

It's up to us to choose whether we win or lose...and I choose to win.

Mary J. Blige

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

Martha Gellhorn

in November you begin to know how long the winter will be.

Mark Gorman

Marriage isn't about winning. It's about lasting.

Mark Hamill

I always think a day when you never get out of your pajamas is a win.

Mark Helprin

As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing.

Maria Callas

Don't come to me with your troubles. I have to work for my money and you are young enough to work too. If you can't make enough money to live on you can jump out of the window or drown yourself.

Oswald Chambers

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

Oswald Chambers

Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

Oswald Chambers

The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.

Oswald Chambers

When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach - a level where all awareness of ourselves and what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint - a saint is consciously dependent on God.

Paul Scholes

Winning the Ballon d’Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.

Paul Ryan

Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.

Paul Ryan

People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous.

Paul Ryan

A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have the moral authority to enact the kind of fundamental reforms America has not seen since Ronald Reagan's first year.

Paul Henderson

My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't.

Pau Gasol

I know that if I perform at a really high level, we're going to have a better chance to win.

Pau Gasol

I'm not the number-one guy here ... if it translates to winning, I don't mind taking a step back as far as roles.

Pau Gasol

It doesn't matter who gets what. It's just a matter of doing what it takes to win.

Paul Arden

Old golfers don't win (it's not an absolute, it's a general rule). Why? The older golfer can hit the ball as far as the young one. He chips and putts equally well. And will probably have a better knowledge of the course. So why does he take the extra stroke that denies him victory? Experience. He knows the downside, what happens if it goes wrong, which makes him more cautious. The young player is either ignorant or reckless to caution. That is his edge. It is the same with all of us. Knowledge makes us play safe. The secret is to stay childish.

Paul Azinger

The best players in the world are playing to make history. There are only four tournaments you can win to make history, and TPC (The Players Championship) is not one of them. And neither are those world events. And you're not going to make history winning some kind of FedEx Cup.

Paul Auster

I don't have all the facts. And I might misremember. As a matter of fact, after I finished Winter Journal, I realized that I'd gotten someone's name wrong.

Paul Auster

I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say.

Paul Auster

What I'm trying to do in [Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.

Paul Auster

I have to say in premise 'Winter Journal' is really not a memoir. And I don't even think of it as an autobiography. I think of it as a literary composition - similar to music - composed of autobiographical fragments. I'm really not telling the story of my life in a coherent narrative form.

Pat Cooper

I knew I loved it because I could take the failures. I was like a professional fighter - they're beat 20 times in a row and they just want that one win.

Pat Cash

I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!

Pat Conroy

I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.

Pat Conroy

It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters.