Famous Quotes & Sayings

George W. Bush

I dont want to win? If that were the case why the heck am I on the bus 16 hours a day, shaking thousands of hands, giving hundreds of speeches, getting pillared in the press and cartoons and still staying on message to win?

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 Steinbrenner

Winning was everything. I don’t care what they tell you.

George Steinbrenner

Breathing first, winning next.

George Steinbrenner

I'm not a win at all costs guy. Winning isn't everything. It's second to breathing

George Steinbrenner

Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.

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.

George R. R. Martin

In this world, only winter is certain

George R. R. Martin

In the end words are just wind.

George R. R. Martin

Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.

George R. R. Martin

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

George R. R. Martin

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.

George R. R. Martin

Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

George Carlin

Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

George Carlin

The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how true they often were. Here they were, banding together in packs, so I could predict what they were going to say about some event or conflict and it wasn't even out of their mouths yet. I was very uncomfortable with that. Liberal orthodoxy was as repugnant to me as conservative orthodoxy.

Gene Tunney

I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.

Gene Tierney

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

Garth Brooks

I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

Disaster movies do us the psychological service of forcing a quick march through the worst that could happen. At the end we see that you win a few, you lose a few, some cars are up in trees, and only the most attractive of the young people have survived.

Fergus Henderson

Do not let the word tripe deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

Felicity Huffman

A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.

Felix Baumgartner

I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.

Felix Baumgartner

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

Fidel Castro

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

Henning Mankell

We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.

Henning Mankell

Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.

Helen Keller

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

Cat Stevens

I listen to the wind, the wind of my soul.

Cate Blanchett

I think probably winning these things [an Oscar] can be a bit of a curse depending on who you are and how you think. But I haven't been on a journey to get anywhere in particular, so that hasn't changed. And my criteria for choosing projects hasn't changed.

Cassandra Clare

You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia.

Cassandra Clare

Yes...and I'm worried that if you get into the habit of making out with your instructors, you'll wind up making out with him too." "Don't be sexist. They could find me a female instructor." "In that case, you have my permission to make out with her as long as I can watch.

Cassandra Clare

I'm not so sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island?