Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salman Rushdie

To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love mister, without a sigh?

Ryan Reynolds

Each time I take a role, I'm always nervous about it at the beginning and I'm always afraid what if that, what if this. Every time I take a role and I'm somewhat terrified at the beginning and I get into it and I start working, that's a big win for me. So, really it is stepping forward in the face of whatever fears that I've created for myself and going forward anyway and those are always big moments for me.

Virgil Goode

Both candidates for president talk about balancing the budget ten years from now. Even if they win, they won't be in office then.

William Congreve

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.

Wayne Huizenga

Despite winning the world championship, it has not altered the reality of the situation.

Wayne Gretzky

Competitive spirit is still at a premium. The more you win, the better you play, the more money you make, so they all have that in mind.

Wayne Gretzky

Lifting the Stanley Cup for the first time. There's nothing like it. It's the greatest story. In my era, they used to say you couldn't be a superstar without winning one. I remember thinking when I lifted it: "Now they can't say that about me."

Wayne Gretzky

The greatest thing about playing obviously is winning, and you can't replace that experience with anything.

Wayne Gretzky

It's easier to lose than to win.

Wayne Dyer

The best way to win is to not need to.

Tony Stewart

I don't care how good you are, you have to have that feeling in your gut that you want to win every week when you go out there.

Van Jones

Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.

William Graham Sumner

For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is interesting, romantic, moral, self-flattering, and public-spirited all at once. It satisfies a great number of human weaknesses at once. To go on and plan what a whole class of people ought to do is to feel one's self a power on earth, to win a public position, to clothe one's self in dignity. Hence we have an unlimited supply of reformers, philanthropists, humanitarians, and would-be managers-in-general of society.

William Graham Sumner

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others

William Graham Sumner

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.

Stephen Chow

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.

Stephen Colbert

Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don't need to care about science, literature or peace.

Stephen Colbert

The lead singer of Creed says he won’t endorse President Obama. Well that settles it -- Obama will not win the 1998 presidential election.

Steffi Graf

Ive been taught very early on that if you want to win a tournament youve got to beat anybody, and hopefully I play well and enjoy it.

Steffi Graf

There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it.

Sourav Ganguly

Dhoni is one of the greatest captain I have ever seen. Dhoni's record is praiseworthy. Twenty-two Test wins is not a small achievement. And the success against Australia has come against the backdrop of the not-so-good times he went through in the last two years

Sparky Anderson

You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.

Thomas Haden Church

Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.

Thomas Gray

From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.

Tim Tebow

If you do base your life on how many touchdowns you score, how many championships you win, then when you have a setback, then when you have an injury, you're not playing, or something goes wrong, your self-worth goes down.

Tim Tebow

You and I were created by God to be so much more than normal…Following the crowd is not a winning approach to life. In the end it’s a loser’s game, because we never become who God created us to be by trying to be like everybody else.

Tim Bishop

Transportation spending is a win-win proposition.

Tim Burton

But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick further in.

Thomas Kyd

Fear shall force what friendship cannot win.

Thomas Friedman

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.

Thomas Friedman

American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not everyone should win a prize no matter where he or she finishes.

Rebecca Lobo

Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.

Vin Scully

That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.