Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. J. Liebling

Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.

A. J. P. Taylor

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

A. J. McLean

I'll sing outside your window. I'm as old fashioned as they come.

Abdoulaye Wade

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

Abbie Hoffman

It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

A. A. Milne

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

A. E. Housman

June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.

A. E. Housman

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

A. A. Milne

One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows.

A. A. Milne

If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today!

Aeschylus

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

Aeschylus

Wrong must not win by technicalities.

Aeschylus

To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.

Aeschylus

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

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.

Adrian Grenier

I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing

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 Pally

There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.

Adam Rapp

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

Adam Gopnik

Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.

Abraham Cahan

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

Abraham Cowley

Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.

Bobby Bowden

You know, we wanted to win our way into it and didn't do it.

We need to find a way to try to get a win here.

Derek Jeter

We need to win one game. That's the only way we can look at it right now.

John Lackey

We need to win games. This was big for us.

We know very much that to win this game, we must go out there and we must play hard.

Gerry McNamara

You know, it was our time. We wanted to come down here and try to win it.

Ludwig von Mises

The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent on the will of the people as consumers. Thus, whenever there is a conflict between the consumers' views and those of the business managers, market pressures assure that the views of the consumers win out eventually.

We had to win this game. And we did it.