Rings Quotes · Page 24

What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life.

— Muhammad Ali

“box held seven hammered-gold rings, each as thin as manila paper, to be worn stacked. And he had gotten himself a ring…

— Piper Kerman

Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky And I must think a little of the past: When I was…

— Allen Tate

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

— Barbara Cartland

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.

— Neil Gaiman

When I first read 'Lord of the Rings,' I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time, the technology…

— Christopher Lee

I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.

— Veronica Roth

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

She had no recollection, later, of having decided what to do next, or of having hunted for something to wear, but somehow…

— Cassandra Clare

He shakes his head with a slow smile. You'd better be right. If the phone rings, I'm unpluggining it, I swear to…

— Tabitha Suzuma

Why do I beat a lot of people? Because I love it so much, that’s why. Everything about Jiu Jitsu, I love…

— Marcelo Garcia

Face red, but brave in spite of it, Ethan offered an even smaller box. My hands shook as i opened it. Set…

— Ellen Hopkins

All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out,…

— Mickey Mantle

And it's okay if you have to go away Oh just remember the telephone works both ways And if I never ever…

— Jason Mraz

Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you…

— Stefan Zweig

Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children,…

— Evangeline Booth

Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act.…

— Leonard Peltier

There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and…

— Annie Dillard

There are a lot of times I have seen someone fight, and I think the guy is tailor made for me until…

— Evander Holyfield

I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral…

— Mark Doty

I would not want to forget the first time I read The Lord of the Rings. I would never want to forget…

— Sharon Cameron

In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else,…

— Lev Grossman

I could not hear what they say about me, my 2 Stanley Cup rings were stuffed in my ears.

— Patrick Roy

Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.

— William Shakespeare

A book collection is a cross between a Rorschach test and This Is Y our Life. It marks your life clearly like…

— Margo Kaufman

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't…

— Mike Tyson

There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to…

— Allan Sherman

Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an…

— Anonymous

Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time...

— Bob Dylan

We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh.

— George Meredith

There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You had women's kickboxing and they're in the ring and that's what I want to do. I just wanted to fight.

— Bonnie Canino

Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo.

— Ringo Starr

My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.

— Muhammad Ali

The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives…

— Manny Pacquiao

Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

— Michael Moore