“ Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. ”
- Georges Duhamel- Copy
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“ She won lots of stuff. She'd win these prizes. What she didn't want to keep, she'd sell. She won a trip to Switzerland, she'd sell it and put money toward the mortgage. ”
- Julianne Moore- Copy
- 922
“ I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
- 286
“ She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. - The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 4. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ It may seem odd that I'm here today - the unapologetic writer of popular fiction - on Faulkner's front porch about to announce the finalists for the National Book Award, which are our most prestigious literary awards. ”
- John Grisham- Copy
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“ The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself. ”
- Rita Mae Brown- Copy
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“ I don't want anything. I don't want a job. I don't want to be respectable. I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diners Club. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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“ Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize. ”
- Owen Meredith- Copy
- 3K
“ It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little. ”
- Richard Harris- Copy
- 2.6K
“ This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come. ”
- Frederick William Robertson- Copy
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“ He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diner's Club. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. ”
- Lois McMaster Bujold- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity. ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
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“ By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it. ”
- Sharon Salzberg- Copy
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“ The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy. ”
- Lois McMaster Bujold- Copy
- 2.1K
“ All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears. ”
- Joaquin Miller- Copy
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