Prizes Quotes

155 Prizes quotes by 140 unique authors

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
The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit. — Michael Moorcock
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
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
There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes. — Oswald Chambers
I’m an insomniac lately. It’s one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship], — Kristin Hannah
Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they… — Leonora Carrington
So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker… — Laurell K. Hamilton
The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays… — Soren Kierkegaard
I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I… — Sylvia Plath
Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life, the things I… — Jeanette Winterson
I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every… — Ernest Cline
All I can say is what you already know: some days are treasure. Not many, but I think in almost every life there are a… — Stephen King
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. — William James
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
The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called… — John Taylor Gatto
School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily… — John Taylor Gatto
The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors,… — Philip Slater
George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences, sociology,… — Robert Kuttner
Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science. — John F. Kennedy
In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual. — Wole Soyinka
There is something so arbitrary about prizes. — Steve Toltz
The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique -… — Stanley B. Prusiner
I have written movies that won prizes at Cannes and Venice. — Luciano Vincenzoni
As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel… — Charles Glover Barkla

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