Famous Quotes & Sayings

Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

Bryant H. McGill

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

Cesar Chavez

We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.

Carson Palmer

Whoever controls the line of scrimmage and wins up front is going to be the winner.

Carson Daly

Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win.

Carroll Shelby

My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Carroll Quigley

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West

Carol Ann Duffy

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

Alan Dershowitz

I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice.

Alain Ducasse

The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.

Al Green

GM is operating in an intensely competitive global environment and reaching this tentative agreement allows us to continue to build momentum in the market with the award-winning vehicles and components produced in Canada.

Al Davis

Look, I don't want to win in the press. I want to win on the field.

Al Davis

The fire that burns brightest in the Raiders organization is the will to win.

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.

Al Gore

The wind and the sun are free.

Al Gore

Incredibly, while these 18 to 20 year-olds cannot legally buy a beer, cannot purchase a bottle of wine and cannot order a drink in a bar, right now they can walk into any gun shop, any pawn shop, any gun show, anywhere in America and buy a handgun.

Al Gore

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

Al Gore

When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference. At the most basic level, don't let denial go unchallenged and win the conversation on climate.

Al Gore

Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.

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 R. Swindoll

God never asked us to meet life's pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.

Charles R. Swindoll

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

Charles Churchill

When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.

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.

Charles Babbage

The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.

Charles Barkley

The most underrated player in NBA history is Dominique Wilkins. Right behind him is Gary Payton. He never has gotten the respect he deserves. If he doesn't spend the rest of his days in Seattle, I hope he goes someplace where he has a chance to win a title.

Charles Barkley

He'll never be Jordan. This clearly takes him out of the conversation. He can win as much as he wants to.

Blake Mycoskie

The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.

Blaise Pascal

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Blaise Pascal

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

Billie Jean King

Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.

Billie Joe Armstrong

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.