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Quotes About Prize

My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.
~ Lisa Kleypas
For $10 million, I'll fight my mama.
~ Quinton Jackson
You should prize this pain of yours. This is what will make you human all the way through. Nothing less will do that.
~ Unknown
I'd rather earn the money than win the lottery because there's no joy in a reward unless it comes at the end of a story
~ Donald Miller
Having read several prize-winning novels, Fancy was confident that she now knew the recipe: 1. Write a simple narrative. 2. Make a long list. 3. Scatter the contents of your list throughout your narrative.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
Any good reward well deserved is well preserved.
~ Jacqueline Job
When they put you on stage / you looked around and saw I was the prize waiting to be awarded. / At last you took a step into the rest of your life / and left me on stage bawling like a child.
~ Unknown
Ao vencedor, as batatas.
~ Machado de Assis
He is giving a show, I know, of grace, of tolerance, and my teeth clench at the calmness in his tone. He likes this image of himself, the wronged young man, stoically accepting the theft of his prize, a martyrdom for the whole camp to see.
~ Madeline Miller
Focus your eyes on the Prize not on your falls.
~ Terry Mark
Sir Lyonel knew that this sleeping knight would charge to his known defeat with neither hesitation nor despair and finally would accept his death with courtesy and grace as though it were a prize. And suddenly Sir Lyonel knew why Lancelot would gallop down the centuries, spear in rest, gathering men's hearts on his lance head like tilting rings. He chose his side and it was Lancelot's. He brushed a dungfly from the sleeping face.
~ John Steinbeck
My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.
~ Martin Amis
The best prize life has to offer is not a chance to work hard and be something in the community. It is the perfume of God that resides within you.
~ Enock Maregesi
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing seems to me more tragic than the pressures we put on artists to do what we think we'll like, and our refusal to prize what is most ornery and special about them.
~ Unknown
The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is...I want to win a Nobel Peace prize.
~ Marco Rubio
The first algorithm to win its creators a Nobel Prize—originally formulated by two mathematicians, David Gale and Lloyd Shapley, in 1962
~ Marcus du Sautoy
The prize and the punishment are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them. The
~ Maria Montessori
Our joy is to touch, and conquer souls, and this is the one prize which can bring us a true compensation.
~ Maria Montessori
Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness
~ Jonathan Mayhew
For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our Constitution until today we face a crisis of great dimensions.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer—I am merely a word criminal.
~ Unknown
I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right.
~ Unknown
If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
~ Marilyn Monroe