Best Prize Lines
710 Prize quotes by 586 unique authors
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Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last…
— Paul Muldoon
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I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxism…The greatest crimes…
— Saul Alinsky
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The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
— Betty Williams
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In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the…
— Shirin Ebadi
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I am very proud. It is always fun to win such a prize, to be chosen as Swedens best player a certain year.
— Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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I thank God for all the victories and conquests I've had this year as a player and I bring to the altar two prizes. This…
— Kaka
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Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that system fails victims…
— Jaclyn Friedman
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Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially subversive)…
— John McGahern
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I never get bored, because there’s always different puzzles, I’m wearing different clothes, there’s different contestants, there’s different prizes.
— Vanna White
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Why it's been left to me to smooth things over, I don't know. Dennis Rodman, of all people. Keeping us safe is really not my…
— Dennis Rodman
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If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong,
— Dennis Rodman
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The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can;…
— William Feather
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A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for…
— Guglielmo Marconi
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When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of…
— Frederick Sanger
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The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground,…
— Marcus Luttrell
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I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve…
— Robert Browning
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My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if…
— Fran Lebowitz
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Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for…
— Billy Tauzin
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To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with…
— Henry Newbolt
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Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I prize the privilege of being alone.
— Carl Rogers
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We must cast away everything which hinders us upon our road towards heaven – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and…
— J C Ryle
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Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.
— Brian Tracy
Who Wrote These Prize Quotes
586 authors contributed a total of 710 Prize Quotes, led by these top contributors: