Prize Quotes

710 Prize quotes by 586 unique authors

I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize… — Matt Groening
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man,… — Anne Bradstreet
You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied… — William Shakespeare
They say that Hope is happiness But genuine Love must prize the past; And Mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless: They rose first -- they… — Lord Byron
The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the… — Arundhati Roy
I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the more difficult for… — Tom Robbins
To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all… — Joseph Heller
A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is… — Benjamin Franklin
I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards. — Nelson Mandela
Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish… — James Thurber
Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first… — Louisa May Alcott
At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stand before thorns. Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally… — William Carlos Williams
I've never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. "He's X big and Y long," As if the baby is a fish… — Patrick Rothfuss
Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when you know-you really… — Gary D. Schmidt
The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit. — Michael Moorcock
For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then… — William Shakespeare
No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the… — Virginia Woolf
When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from… — Edmund White
Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I… — Oswald Chambers
(Phillipians 3:14) No Lots wife here. No looking back at Sodom and Gomorrah here. Paul knows it is out there in the future, up ahead… — Jeffrey R. Holland
I got a washed out version of Mom’s curls and a better copy of Dad’s blue eyes, The rest of me, I guess, is up… — Lilith Saintcrow
There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes. — Oswald Chambers
Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third… — David Mamet
There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the… — Kathryn Stockett

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