Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."

Bobby Cox

I think you've got to do what you have to do to win right now.

We've got to win the first before we win the fourth.

Amani Toomer

To get a win we've got to play good. And we really didn't play that well at all.

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard P. Feynman

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Trudi Canavan

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

Rick Cook

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Woodrow Wilson

I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

Woody Allen

I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who wins those things-or who doesn't win them-you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.

William Wordsworth

The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.

Will Ferrell

I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!

Richard M. Nixon

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Richard M. Nixon

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

Rebecca Pidgeon

If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.

Robert Duvall

Everybody likes to win.

Tucker Carlson

American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.

Tracy Pollan

When something's got to give, family always wins. I couldn't live with myself if it was the other way.

Robin Tunney

You don't make movies to win awards. You make movies because you want people to see them.

Robert W. Service

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

Robert Reich

On the Republican playing field, Republicans always win.

Robert Plant

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

Roger Goodell

The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us.

Satchel Paige

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

Sara Sheridan

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

Sandy Koufax

There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.

Samuel Rutherford

Grace grows best in winter.

Sarah Paulson

It's OK to sit in the Golden Globe room and look around and think, 'Oh, Helen Mirren's a loser tonight, so is Nicole Kidman. Meryl Streep lost tonight. Jessica Lange didn't win.' If you're gonna be in the company of losers, that's the company to be in.

Wallace Stevens

The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.

Vince Young

I can do whatever it takes to win.

Warren Buffett

To win, the first thing you have to do is not lose.

Vladimir Kramnik

It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position

Vincent Van Gogh

No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.