Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcel Duchamp

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

Manuel Pellegrini

I don't know the parameters for the Ballon d'Or. I only know that Messi deserves to win every trophy

Kinky Friedman

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

Kevin Millar

Don't let us win tonight. This is a big game. They've got to win because if we win we've got Pedro coming back today and then Schilling will pitch Game 6 and then you can take that fraud stuff and put it to bed. Don't let the Sox win this game.

Kelly Clarkson

If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!

Kelly Clarkson

My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory.

Margaret Thatcher

You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.

Leonardo da Vinci

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

Paul Reiser

Nothing would make me happier if Peter Falk would finally win his Oscar for this. Not just as the writer but as a fan and a friend. It would be so great

Paul Gauguin

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Patrick Marleau

Games in hand are a good thing only if you win them.

Patrick Murray

A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

Patrick McHenry

I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.

Patrick O'Brian

I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for whichever side has paid you, affecting warmth and conviction, and doing everything you can to win the case, whatever your private opinion may be, will soon dull any fine sense of honour. The mercenary soldier is not a valued creature, but at least he risks his life, whereas these men merely risk their next fee.

Patrick Ness

...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423

Patrick Ness

Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

Patrice O'Neal

Women don't want to win, they want a winner.

Padraig Harrington

I hadn't won in Europe for two years, although I won twice in America last year, but it's great to come back and win. You never want to go a year without a win. It's very special to win and I'm really happy the way I did it.

Lester Piggott

Everyone keeps asking me: 'Are you going to win?' How on earth do you know if you're going to win or not?

Lev Yilmaz

People always say you can't win if you don't play

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

So much to win, so much to lose, No marvel that I fear to choose.

Leon Spinks

To experience the agony of defeat makes you stronger. It's like taking one step back and two steps forward. To experience the agony of defeat makes you appreciate the experience of winning. That's what makes a champion.

Leon Panetta

The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win.

Lee Westwood

People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship.

Lee Westwood

Just because I keep getting close and don't win these Majors, I must not panic.

Lauren Oliver

The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.

Paul Merson

To win the Champions League with Porto, you have to be tactically acute

Oscar Wilde

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

Jack Osbourne

Just know this, if that day does come where I do win this mirrorball, know that I didn't just win it for me, but I won it for all of us with MS.

Gloria Steinem

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

Gloria Steinem

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

Giorgio Napolitano

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.

Harry S Truman

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.