(211 quotes found)
“Boyfriends weren't friends at all, they were prizes, escorts, symbols of achievement, fascinating strangers, the Other”
Susan Allen Toth
“Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me,From mine own library with volumes thatI prize above my dukedom.”
William Shakespeare
“All honor to him who shall win the prize,'The world has cried for a thousand years;But to him who tries and fails and dies,I give great honor and glory and tears.”
Joaquin Miller
“I do not prize the word "cheap." It is not a badge of honor. It is a symbol of despair. Cheap prices make for cheap goods; cheap goods make for cheap men; and cheap men make for a cheap country.”
William McKinley
“Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life”
Cecil Rhodes
“I'll bet the hardest thing about prize fightin' is pickin' up yer teeth with a boxin' glove on”
Kin Hubbard
“Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.”
Georges Duhamel
“She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises”
William Congreve
“I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!”
Bill McCartney
“The true magnitude of the Nobel Committee's blunder in awarding the Prize to Kissinger didn't become apparent until the destabilization of Cambodia, set in motion by American intervention, produced the Khmer Rouge and the slaughter of over a million”
Paul Hager