Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Bell

Do we get what we want? Yes, we get what we want. God is that loving. If we want isolation, despair, and the right to be our own god, God graciously grants us that option. If we insist on using our God-given pwer to make the world in our image, God allows us that freedom; we have the kind of license to do that.that's how love works. It cant be forced, manipulated, or coerced. It always leaves room for the other to decide. God says yes, we can have what we want, because love wins.

Richard Kinder

A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.

Richard Krajicek

Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995

Tucker Max

In training, there is no winning or losing. There is only learning.

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.

Tamora Pierce

You've been nipping at cook's wine!!

Tamora Pierce

You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)

Tamora Pierce

It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!

Tammy Baldwin

All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

Tammy Bruce

Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

Tamara Mellon

Everyone in my office wears it all winter, it's our uniform because it's the easiest thing to wear.

Tab Hunter

I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

Tad Williams

...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.

Tablo

They say time flies, but you keep breaking it’s wings.

Tablo

Though I may not flow where the wind guides me, I won’t become still water.

Tacitus

Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

Tacitus

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

Sylvia Plath

I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together.

Sylvia Plath

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

Sylvia Plath

Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think.

Sylvia Plath

I drink sherry and wine by myself because I like it and I get the sensuous feeling of indulgence...luxury, bliss, erotic-tinged.

Sylvia Plath

Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves.

Swami Vivekananda

"If you die, you get to heaven; and if you win, you enjoy the earth" (Gita). Even if you die in this attempt, well and good, many will take up the work, following your example. And if you succeed, you will live a life of great opulence.

Rosamunde Pilcher

They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind. A whole new concept. Such stimulation. Such vitality.

Ron Fairly

The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity.

Ron Dennis

As I've always said, McLaren exists to win, and win we will.

Ron Howard

Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.

Ron Fournier

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most influential woman in Washington - for what she has accomplished and for what she may yet do: win the presidency.

Samantha Shannon

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

Rumi

Passion is present when a man can distinguish between the wine and the container. Two men see a loaf of bread. One hasn't eaten anything for ten days. The other has eaten five times a day, every day. He sees the shape of the loaf. The other man with his urgent need sees inside into the taste, and into the nourishment the bread could give. Be that hungry, to see within all beings the Friend.

Rumi

Learn to recognize the false dawn from the true; distinguish the color of the wine from the color of the cup. Then it may be that patience and time may produce, out of the spectrum-viewing sight, true vision, and you will behold colors other than these mortal hues, you will see pearls instead of stones. Pearls, did I say? Nay more, you will become a sea, you will become a sun traveling the sky.

Rumi

You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.

Rumi

You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.