Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Thorogood

You can't rely on luck. I've had some stages in my career where I've said we're going to wing it, and we've always ended up in trouble.

George Orwell

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Felix Baumgartner

Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

Helen Keller

Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

George Horace Lorimer

The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.

George Herbert

You cannot know wine by the barrell.

Christine Lahti

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.

Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

Jeanette Winterson

Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings.

Jim Costa

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

Jethro Tull

Roll us down the mountain and I'm sure the fatman would win.

Jeaniene Frost

Before we met, I'd fly for hours to clear my head," Bones said, his voice reaching me even over the rush of wind. "It was the closest I came to finding peace, but though several of my mates could fly, I always went alone. I never wanted to share this with anyone until you.

Jeff Bezos

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Jeff Bezos

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

Georges Bataille

[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with.

George Sand

One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.

Frederick William Faber

For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.

Franz Kafka

What am I doing here in this endless winter?

Glenn Greenwald

The bottom layer of the right-wing noise machine.

Gerry Spence

When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

Gram Parsons

The first time I lose I drink whiskey, second time I lose I drink gin. Third time I lose I drink anything 'cause I think I'm gonna win.

J. D. Salinger

Where do the ducks go in the winter?

J. D. Salinger

It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.

Ivana Trump

I want great food and wine, and friends to enjoy it all.

Jack Nicklaus

As long as I'm prepared, I always expect to win.

Jack Johnson

We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Bill Vaughan

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Pope John

That was a really big win for Kerry,

That was a real big win for us. We're pretty excited. To be 5-0 (in league) right now is awesome.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

A meal without wine is like a day without sun

Jay Leno

Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win.

Candice Accola

I do my best to look at the bigger picture and not sweat the small stuff. I make it a point to have alone time. I value that some of life’s best moments happen over a meal with your family or a glass of wine with your friends. And when life seems like a lot to bear, I dance around like a kid until I laugh.