Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Sterling

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

John Steinbeck

'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and the time is nearly up. They think that just because they have only one leader and one head, we are all like that. They know that ten heads lopped off will destroy them, but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we have people, and in a time of need leaders pop up among us like mushrooms.'

Marie Corelli

It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!

Markus Zusak

The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.

Terrell Owens

I'll do whatever it takes to win.

Ted Turner

The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.

Ted Nugent

I contribute to the dead of winter and the moans of silence, blood trails are music to my ears ... I'm a gut pile addict ... The pig didn't know I was there ... it's my kick ... I love shafting animals ... it's rock 'n' roll power.

Ted Cruz

I would note that the scripture tells us, "you shall know them by their fruit." We see lots of "campaign conservatives." But if we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative, someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.

Ted Cruz

What I endeavor to do is shine a light on what happens at the court, both as a law clerk and then as a litigator litigating and winning major cases in front of the Supreme Court over and over and over again.

Ted Cruz

There is no doubt that if Donald [Trump] steamrolls through Super Tuesday, wins everywhere with big margins, that he may well be unstoppable. I don't think that will happen.

Ted Cruz

ISIS is gaining strength because the perception is that they're winning. And President [Barack] Obama fuels that perception.

Theodore Roosevelt

And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle

Theodore Roosevelt

We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.

Theodore Roosevelt

The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

Theodore J. Forstmann

Once I decide to do something, I want to win in the worst way. I will do anything within the law to win.

Thelma Drake

There is only one option in Iraq: that we win.

Terry Pratchett

The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything, anywhere, whatsoever.

Margaret Mitchell

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

Margaret Mead

The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.

Margaret Halsey

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

Margaret Fuller

Wine is earth's answer to the sun.

Marco Polo

The true sweetness of wine is one flavor

Kimi Raikkonen

You always want to have a winning car, but there is no guarantee that it will be.

Kimora Lee Simmons

In this life, you have to risk big to win big.

Kevin Starr

In the luxuriance of a bowl of grapes set out in ritual display, in a bottle of wine, the soil and sunshine of California reached millions for whom that distant place would henceforth be envisioned as a sun-graced land resplendent with the goodness of the fruitful earth.

Michael Lewis

If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it.

Michael Lewis

The incentive for the outsider is to attack the system right up to the moment he is co-opted by it. The incentive for the insider -and this took some getting used to- is to allow yourself to be attacked, and then co-opt your most ferocious attackers, and their best ideas. The effect on the system as a whole is to make it more stable, because everyone winds up working on its behalf.

Michael Lewis

The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

Michael Bloomberg

You're going to see a million people here who have the courage to come and not let terrorists win, and that's exactly what we should all do.

Melky Cabrera

I have no wish to win an award that would be tainted,

Melissa Etheridge

You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.

Michelle Branch

Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.

Michelangelo

If the wine is not good, then throw it out!