Quotes About Prize

Roar'd for the handkerchief that caus'd his pain.   But see how oft ambitious aims are cross'd,   And chiefs contend 'till all the prize is lost!   The Lock, obtain'd with guilt, and kept with pain,   In ev'ry place is sought, but sought in vain: 110   With such a prize no mortal must be blest,   So heav'n decrees! with heav'n who can contest?

A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California.

I will give Cassius Clay $250,000 if he will just get into the ring with me anywhere in a combination boxing-wrestling match.

Surveillance legislation fit for the 21st century, which strikes the right balance between privacy, security and democracy is a prize worth fighting for, and Labour will work constructively with the government to achieve it.

The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness.

The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen.

A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.

Are you not in a race; and is not the prize the crown of glory; and should you then sit still or take your ease? (281)

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore he belongs to the world.

He wrote to his mother that even though the prize had gone in the past to writers he despised, it pleased him: 'I suppose at the bottom of every human mind is the rather degraded love of success – any kind of success. One feels ashamed of one's own pleasure.'39

physicist James Franck, head of the physics department at Haber's institute, who, like Haber and Hahn, would later win the Nobel Prize.342 So did a crowd of industrial chemists employed by I.G. Farben, a cartel of eight chemical companies assembled in wartime by the energetic Carl Duisberg of Bayer.

Bohr was different in another regard as well; he was easily the most talented of all Rutherford's many students—and Rutherford trained no fewer than eleven Nobel Prize winners during his life, an unsurpassed record.

Maybe if he did really well they'd give him some mouldy apples.

This is my driver,' Nico said. 'Jules-Albert finished first in the Paris–Rouen motorcar race back in 1895, but he wasn't awarded the prize because his steam car used a stoker.

In every race after that, I finished in the top three. All through 1917 I raked in prize money with my clawed feet.

Um, your prize…" Corey said. "If you aren't going to take it, I'd be happy to play stand-in." "I'll collect it later," Rafe said. "Without an audience.

Better kick it up a notch," he said, as he drew alongside me. "I know you really want those extra holds." "And I'm sure you really don't want to make them. But don't forget the second part. You win, you gotta kiss me. Might be better to stick with the holds.

So, what are you doing after school?" he asked. "You don't give up, do you?" "Nope, so you might as well surrender now." "And that's exactly what will make you back off, isn't it?" He arched his brows, as if he had no idea what I was talking about. "You like the chase," I said. "But once you get a girl, you back off before you can collect the prize. Kind of missing the point, I think.

You like the chase," I said. "But once you get a girl, you back off before you can collect the prize. Kind of missing the point, I think." "Huh. You're right. Tell you what, go out with me and you can show me how it's done." I'd walked right into that.

And if I win?" He grinned. "Then you get to spend thirty minutes with me, lucky birthday girl.

But even then, with her prize in tow as she weaves out of the bar, the shield never changes, the expression stays, still somewhere between blunt ferocity and brute pathos.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

Lest too light winningMake the prize light.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me,From mine own library with volumes thatI prize above my dukedom.