Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathryn Stockett

There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation. For the dishonesty upon which a society is founded makes every emotion suspect, makes it impossible to know whether what flowed between two people was honest feeling or pity or pragmatism.(Howell Raines's Pulitzer Prize winning article "Grady's Gift")-Sockett admired this quote and used it in her summary...

Kanye West

Benjamin Franklin didnt win 21 Grammys right?

Kanye West

What I had to learn from Kim is how to take more of her advice and less of other people's advice. There's a lot of Kim K skills that were added. In order to win at life, you need some Kim K skills, period.

Kanye West

If I don't win, the award show loses credibility.

Kanye West

Respect my trendsetting abilities. Once that happens, everyone wins.

Julian Fellowes

Of course I love winning things; I can't tell you how much I enjoy it.

Paul Krugman

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

Patrick Geddes

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

Patrick Ewing

I'm satisfied with the way I play, but I don't evaluate my performances. I worry about what I can contribute defensively. I don't need to score. As long as we win, I don't care how many points I score.

Frank Lampard

You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win.

Frank Luntz

There are certain aspects, and there are - there are 15 attributes of winners and winning slogans. "Which side are you on" sounds divisive, that you're on one side or the other, at a time when we actually want universality. We want unanimity.

Frank Luntz

There are people who will be wanting to apply "Win" to their own, personal life. If you remember only one thing, and I'm going to do it right here, right now because I just happened to come to it, that phrase - if you remember only one thing - there are 125 specific language recommendations in "Win" that can make a difference in your day-to-day lives.

Frank Luntz

There are about 50 or 60 recommendations [in "Win"] for how to communicate, not just the words themselves. All of them had to be tested. And in this short amount of time, it's just very time-consuming and very stressful to ensure that you get it right.

Hansie Cronje

I always played to win.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

Harlan Coben

"So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely."

Gustavo Kuerten

Finally my competitive spirit has come alive and I'm winning again.

Grantland Rice

I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.

John Brady

Before you can beat me (this is the easy part), you have to allow yourself to win.

John Baldacci

Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win.

Luis Palau

Feast of the Holy Innocents The most thrilling thing you can ever do is win someone to Christ. And it's contagious. Once you do it, you don't want to stop.

Luis Suarez

That's the mentality - don't just play it, win it.

Luis Gonzalez

You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it,

John Cena

Winning the Royal Rumble is as big an accomplishment as anything.

John Brabender

In fairness to the [Donald] Trump people, if you look at the most recent numbers, they're actually doing well in Ohio, winning, winning in a lot of polls in Florida, and now Pennsylvania and Michigan have both tightened. They're not ahead, but they have tightened. And that's a good trend.

John Brabender

In a state like Pennsylvania, the paradox is, to win, you have to get the conservative Democrats in the west, but you still have to do well with the collar-county moderates in the east. [Mitt] Romney did fine with the moderates, but not the conservative Democrats. Trump is doing well with the conservative Democrats. Now Trump has to seal the deal with the moderates in the east.

Matthew Arnold

It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them.

Matthew Arnold

Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.

Matt Taibbi

You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again.

Maxwell Maltz

This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.

Max Scherzer

It has been calculated that one marginal win is worth $7 million and we can increase that by five percent each year to figure out the value the Nationals can expect to receive from Scherzer.

Max Beerbohm

Pessimism does win us great happy moments.

Mark Shields

Benjamin Netanyahu is no Winston Churchill. Whatever else he, is he's not a Winston Churchill. He basically violated the great rule, which is it's better to mislead the people and to lose an election than to mislead the people and win an election.