Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bai Ling

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Benito Mussolini

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Jamie Foxx

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Al Franken

When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.

Charles R. Swindoll

Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning.

Charles Darwin

With mammals the male appears to win the female much more through the law of battle than through the display of his charms.

Jamie Redknapp

You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that.

Jane Smiley

How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

Michael McGuire

Essentially, he has served about 85 percent of his sentence, which was all he was supposed to serve. He got no special favors or anything like that.

Orson Scott Card

'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.

Alexander Pope

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

Angela Lansbury

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

Robert Greene

Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your head.

Socrates

This is a universe that does not favor the timid.

Mariano Rajoy

I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.

John Wooden

Forget favors given; remember those received.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

Bible Bible

Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? / With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

Victoria de los Angeles

After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.

Rene Descartes

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

Rick Riordan

Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn’t a compliment. “I will rend your limbs from their sockets!” he shouted. “I will—” “Die?” Carter suggested.

Stacy Schiff

Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.

Matthew Arnold

Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

Patricia Briggs

But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.

Steve Sampson

Let's put it this way France '98 was half a decade ago - it's ancient history as far as I'm concerned. I've moved on.