Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adrienne Rich

To become a token woman--whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters--is to become something less than a mansince men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.

Agatha Christie

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

Adrian Peterson

To be able to have that self-respect for yourself and just that feeling of, OK, I did what I could, just stay true to yourself.If you feel that this is something that's valid and you should go out there and win, then push through it no matter what the outcome is. Just know that nine times out of 10 that no matter whether you were right or you were wrong, the NFL is a business.

Adrian Peterson

At the end of the day, it's hard to win against the NFL. It's a billion-dollar business, it's hard to win against it. They can manipulate a lot of different things. They can pull strings, they know people. At the end of the day, nine times out of 10, they are going to win.

Adam Weishaupt

If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.

Adam Rapp

The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.

Alex Rodriguez

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

Alex Rodriguez

Whether I hit .260 or .320, the bottom line here is to win.

Daniela Hantuchova

It was a match I lost, rather than she won [on Serena Williams winning with an apparent cramp injury at Wimbledon

Daniel Libeskind

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?

Dan O'Brien

Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.

Dan Marino

I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.

Dan Marino

I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.

Dan Millman

Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.

Cormac McCarthy

Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.

Cliff Lee

I just play to win. I play to be competitive; that's it. I think every player hopes that they do something special that everyone remembers later in life, or whatever. But that's not why we're playing. At least, that's not why I play.

Cliff Robertson

The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'

Eamon de Valera

The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.

Dwight Gooden

If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone.

Dwight Howard

I'm just going to keep working. Spend more days in the gym, as possible. Just trying to get my game up, and just keep playing. And if it's in God's will for me to win, then I'll get it.

Dwight L. Moody

It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ.

Orson Scott Card

He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly

Orson Scott Card

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Orson Scott Card

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

Orson Scott Card

But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.

Prince

I want to win, so sometimes I get a little overanxious.

We are winning the battle, but there are a lot of bumps.

F. Lee Bailey

If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

George Brett

Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.

Kurt Vonnegut

Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.

David Gemmell

Win or lose, we achieve nothing in the world that we understand [...]' 'But then the world does not matter.' 'Indeed it does not [...] It is good to understand that.

David Gemmell

[H]e who fears to lose will never win.