Prize Quotes · Page 27

He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.

— Friedrich Schiller

I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella,…

— Bella Abzug

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

— Betty Williams

He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the…

— Friedrich Schiller

Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones…

— Richard Louv

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

— Naguib Mahfouz

I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.

— Jean Tirole

I probably can win a prize for the most ways to use a Harvard Law School degree because of all the things…

— Ory Okolloh

He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.

— Aesop

I'll probably take the prize for the most irrelevant degree. Although some of the things now where they study, you know: "post…

— Robert Greene

I'm hugely honored [with the Man Booker Prize].

— Paul Beatty

“Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties…

— Mildred Armstrong Kalish

To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs…

— Thomas Traherne

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

— Homer

Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize.

— Anonymous

[Pope Francis] continued to focus on migrants. He visited the Greek island of Lesbos, which was the front line of the European…

— Sylvia Poggioli

It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn…

— Diane Arbus

Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists…

— Haruki Murakami

Sorry, I didn't squat and grease myself and be naked next to Kim Lard-ashian. I mean, no matter what you do -…

— Judy Tenuta

Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great…

— Harriet Lerner

No vegetarian has been able to achieve a single Nobel prize. It is a clear-cut condemnation of vegetarianism. Why do all the…

— Rajneesh

One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize…

— Natsuo Kirino

Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to…

— Kofi Annan

The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me…

— Og Mandino

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world…

— Willard Libby