Quotes about win
winning losing strive
Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak. Fred Rogers
winning sitting remember
I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope. George H. W. Bush
winning instinct
But death's acquisitive instincts will win. Harold Brodkey
wind perfect victory
I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me. Haile Gebrselassie
winning important
What is important is to win. Haile Gebrselassie
winning want marathon
I know what I want when I start a marathon: to win! But what do you want? Make sure you're clear in advance and don't go out too fast. Haile Gebrselassie
winning wells ifs
Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well. Haile Gebrselassie
winning made lots-of-money
Chris (Moneymaker) winning that tournament has made the rest of us a lot of money. Greg Raymer
winning trying
I'd rather try and not win than not try at all Greg Maddux
winning player thinking
But Rangers don't need to go there and win, they need to go there and get a point. I think the hardest thing about it is there will be no supporters. Playing in an empty ground will be a problem for the players. Graham Roberts
winning games people
The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them. Graham Nelson
winter bitter cold
Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel. Jim Butcher
wine sheep civilization
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time. Howard Rheingold
wind safety scary
There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net. Howard Schultz
wind focus company
When you start a company, it's a singular focus. You have the wind at your back. Howard Schultz
wine misfortunes
Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune. Honore de Balzac
wine years oil
This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development. Itzhak Perlman
wine way recognition
There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them. Isak Dinesen
wine men thinking
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine? Isak Dinesen
wine later-in-life drunk
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. Isak Dinesen
wind-blowing smell doors
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing. Iris Murdoch
wind sea white
Silver flow the streams from Celos to Erui In the green fields of Lebennin! Tall grows the grass there. In the wind from the Sea The white lilies sway, And the golden bells are shaken of mallos and alfirin In the green fields of Lebennin, In the wind from the Sea! J. R. R. Tolkien
wine bottles kind
It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me. J. R. R. Tolkien
wings mind links
They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially, even apart from the necessities of life, since the mind would wing to the other pole and spread itself on the linguistics): yet always I had the sense of recording what was already 'there', somewhere: not of 'inventing'. J. R. R. Tolkien
wind drawing east
But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near. J. R. R. Tolkien
wine moon men
Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted. J. R. R. Tolkien
wind somewhere-else lost
If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost. J. R. R. Tolkien
winter fishing fly-fishing
And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date. Izaak Walton
winter lasts firsts
Last winter, when so many Living joined the Dead and our prey became scarce, I watched some of my friends become full-dead. The transition was undramatic. They just slowed down, then stopped, and after a while I realised they were corpses. It disquieted me at first, but it’s against etiquette to notice when one of us dies. I distracted myself with some groaning. Isaac Marion
wind people world
Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty. Isaac Asimov
wind deeds bragging
Boasts are wind and deeds are hard. Isaac Asimov
wind disappear spoken-word
The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed. Iris Chang
wine drunk alcohol
Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine. Elton John