Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Hemingway

If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

Ernest Hemingway

No one ever stopped when they were winning.

Ernest Hemingway

The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

Erwin Rommel

I didn't die nor win.

Erykah Badu

I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy.

Flavia Pennetta

Twenty days ago my physio asked me if I was if I never think that I can win a Grand Slam or be in final of Grand Slam, and I said no.

Fay Weldon

Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.

Federico Garcia Lorca

I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind’s knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I’ve placed the eyeless head of all my desires.

Fantasia Barrino

Sometimes you have to lose to win again.

Ezra Taft Benson

Each day the forces of evil and the forces of good enlist new recruits. Each day we personally make many decisions showing the cause we support. The final outcome is certain---the forces of righteousness will win. But what remains to be seen is where each of us personally, now and in the future, will stand in this battle---and how tall we will stand. Will we be true to our last days and fulfill our foreordained missions?

Ezra Taft Benson

I say to you with all the fervor of my soul that God intended men to be free. Rebellion against tyranny is a righteous cause. It is an enormous evil for any man to be enslaved to any system contrary to his own will. For that reason men, 200 years ago, pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood - human blood - will win it back.

Francesco Guicciardini

By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

Francis Bacon

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

Floyd Landis

The guy who trains the hardest, the most, wins.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I just got the will to win at life.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Some pay to see me win, some pay to see me lose, but they all pay.

George W. Romney

You can't be too right too soon and win elections.

George Washington

The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command the respect of the world.

George Santayana

Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.

George McGovern

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

George McGovern

If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.

George McGovern

I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.

George Orwell

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

George Nethercutt

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

Chris Wedge

You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.

Chris Patten

Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.

Chris Paul

I've been a winner my whole life.

Chris Paul

Whatever I have to do to help us win, I'll do.

Chris Kirkpatrick

Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win.

Chris LeDoux

You hope your buddies will win so you don't have to loan them any money.

Chris Kamara

For Burnley to win they are going to have to score.

Chris Hayes

The person that always wins, that`s the other thing. The monkey picking stocks always wins.

Chris Hayes

I`ve seen all this tussling about what is [Donald] Trump ideologically and Jim Carney said he`s a liberal and people saying, look, he`s winning moderates. Chris Christie is an example of this.