Famous Quotes & Sayings

Czeslaw Milosz

A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.

D. H. Lawrence

Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

D. H. Lawrence

The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought, Their abundant summery wordage silenced, caught In the grim undertow; naked the trees confront Implacable winter's long, cross-questioning brunt.

D. H. Lawrence

And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.

Crystal Waters

To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road.

Conrad Burns

In life you are given two ends; one to think with and the other to sit on. Your success in life depends on which end you use most. Heads you win, tails you lose.

Clint Hurdle

As they say in the rodeo business, he just drew a tough one. There were a lot of positives for Jason to take out of this. He put us in a position to win.

Clifton Fadiman

Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist. To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Tana Umaga

We'll take the win for sure, but there were times out there when we lacked composure.

Alexander Ovechkin

I want to win, I want to win everything. If I have a chance to win, why not?

Alexander MacLaren

If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

Alexander Pope

Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Alexander Pope

But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

Alexander Pope

The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.

Alexander Pope

Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

Alexander Pope

Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it

Alexander Pope

To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

Alexander Pope

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

Alexander Pope

On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

Alexander Pope

No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

Alexander Pope

Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

Alexander Pope

Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

Alexander Pope

And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

Alex Turner

There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain.

Alex Trebek

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

Alex Haley

History is written by winners.

Albert Pujols

I never take things for granted. I always look to help out me teammates, to win and be better.

E. O. Wilson

Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.

Drew Brees

I expect to win out there.

Drew Brees

I know I can go out there and play much better than I did yesterday. But to come out with a win is key.

Drew Brees

When you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week or a month from now -- just think about one day at a time.

Drew Brees

I love the Cowboys in the early 90s. That was their heyday, winning all those Super bowls. Troy Aikman was a person I looked up to.

Drew Carey

There's a game called Checkout where there's grocery items and it's how much you think the manufacturer's suggested retail price is and we add up your total, then your total has to be within $2 of the regular total. I don't think I could ever win that game.