Quotes with prize-fighters

Quotes 21 till 40 of 50.

  • Christian Nevell Bovee In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Boris Pasternak In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Billy Tauzin 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 New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Alfred Nobel It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • William Shakespeare Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
    From mine own library with volumes that
    I prize above my dukedom.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • C. D. Andrews O can't you see, brother - Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.
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  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
    Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
    American academic, feminist and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Billy Childish People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.
    Billy Childish
    English painter, author, poet and photographer (1959 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Rigondeaux was Cuba's answer to Bobby Fischer who transformed into a kind of Lee Harvey Oswald traitorous creature in that society. He escaped on a smuggler's boat and toppled one of the best fighters in the world in 2013 with his obliteration of Nonito Donaire at Radio City Music Hall. He made it look so easy, his career has never recovered.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • William Shakespeare That what we have, we prize not to the worth
    whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost,
    why, than we rack the value.
    Much ado about nothing (1598)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Betty Williams The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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