Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen King

In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

Stephen King

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

Stephen King

You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation.

Stephen King

I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get a good look at an accident, even though they won't admit it.

Stephen Ambrose

Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert.

Stefan Edberg

If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam.

Stefan Edberg

As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance.

Stefan Edberg

I'd won the Australian Open twice, but winning Wimbledon takes something special.

Stefan Molyneux

Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days. You have to sail with the winds are they are now.

Sophie Hannah

Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people look incredibly bright, as if they are probably off to win a Nobel prize.

Roy Oswalt

Every time I go out there I expect to win.

Thomas Merton

Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and more certain common good than can be attained by bombs and blood. Nonviolence, ideally speaking, does not try to overcome the adversary by winning over [them], but to turn [them] from an adversary into a collaborator by winning [them] over.

Thomas Merton

Be still: There is no longer any need of comment. It was a lucky wind That blew away his halo with his cares, A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.

Thomas Merton

Love winter when the plant says nothing.

Thomas Merton

Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

Thomas Carlyle

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

Thomas Carlyle

Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

Tony Lema

Let's see, I think I right now I'm third in the money-winning and first in money-spending.

Tony La Russa

The best way to win is to play well early or late in the game. The middle part tends to take care of itself.

Tony La Russa

Play the game right. If you play the game intelligently and execute the fundamentals, you can win.

Tony La Russa

It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.

Tony Hsieh

If there are too many competitors, even if you're the best it's a lot harder to win.

Tony Hsieh

Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins

Tony Kushner

Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone...Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way.

Tony DiCicco

If I win, I attract other good players and by doing that I win more games.

Tony Curtis

They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.

Tony Dungy

You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you have got to hang though together

Tony Dungy

I never wanted our players to think the Super Bowl was the ultimate. I always talk about 'Yes, we're going to win, but what are we going to do as we're winning? What are we going to do after we win?' Winning the Super Bowl is not the destination. It's not an end point. It's what you do from here.

Tony Dungy

You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.

Tommy Lasorda

Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.

Tommy Lasorda

When you're not playing up to your capability, you gotta try everything, to motivate, to get them going. All of them have to be on the same end of the rope to pull together. It's playing for the name on the front of the shirt, not the back. Individualism gets you trophies and plaques. Play for the front, that wins championships. I try to remind them of that.

Tom Watson

I learned how to win by losing and not liking it.

Tom Waits

I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand