Prize Quotes - Page 15

• My eyes widened at the ball of orange fluff squeezing out from under the counter, blinking and stretching. I looked again, not believing. “It’s a cat,” I said, winning the Pulitzer prize for incredible intellect.

  Kim Harrison

  Believe, Cat, Eye

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• the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Growth, Youth, Eternal

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.175, The Floating Press

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• One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Brave, Reason Why, Irony

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.337, Macmillan

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• The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

  C. S. Lewis

  Order, Two, Mind

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 had about myself were coming true. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of race.

  Sylvia Plath

  Running, Morning, Race

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.17, Hamilton Books

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• To us, your power comes from one simple thing: you’re a woman, and we men will do anything humanly possible to impress you so that, ultimately, we can be with you. You’re the driving force behind why we wake up every day. Men go out and get jobs and hustle to make money because of women. We drive fancy cars because of women. We dress nice, put on cologne, get haircuts and try to look all shiny and new for you. We do all of this because the more our game is stepped up, the more of you we get. You’re the ultimate prize to us.

  Steve Harvey

  Jobs, Nice, Simple

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• It shall be my pleasure to remedy it. First, it is not your strength or your speed that draws me. It's your...everything. Your laugh, your wit, your emotions and the way they change. Your courage, your sweetness, your near obsessive delight in cookies. Second, you are indeed a prize. You've made me want what no one else ever had. A communion of bodies." -Zacharel to Annabelle

  Gena Showalter

  Laughing, Cookies, Delight

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• ... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Mankind

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• Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb.

  Daniel Handler

  Gutters, Glitter, Lasts

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.7, Egmont UK

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• 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 remember, the things I turn over in my hands, are not houses, bank accounts, prizes or promotions. What I remember is love -- all love -- love of this dirt road, this sunrise, a day by the river, the stranger I met in a café. Myself, even, which is the hardest thing of all to love, because love and selfishness are not the same thing. It is easy to be selfish. It is hard to love who I am. No wonder I am surprised if you do.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Real, Selfish, Who I Am

  Jeanette Winterson (2004). “Lighthousekeeping”, Fourth Estate (GB)

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• There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.

  Desmond Tutu

  Numbers, People, Giving

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, Elie Wiesel is also the author of more than 40 books. As relevant as anything to today's discussion are the insights into the Biblical texts that are contained in his lectures and books. They include Messengers of God [1976], Five Biblical Portraits [1978] and his just-published Wise Men and Their Tales - Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic and Hasidic Masters.

  Hershel Shanks

  Wise, Book, Biblical

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• [Pope Francis] continued to focus on migrants. He visited the Greek island of Lesbos, which was the front line of the European migrant crisis. And a month later, he accepted a prestigious European Union prize, but he scolded Europe for its treatment of migrants. And in a speech echoing Martin Luther King, he said I have a dream of a Europe where being a migrant is not a crime. So, yeah, he showed he can be quite outspoken on political issues.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Dream, Kings, Europe

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Children, Native American, Generosity

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• If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.

  Terry Pratchett

  Penalties, Ifs

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• When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your family.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Home, And Love

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• It's not about winning, Haven. I'm not a prize to be won. I'm not the princess that needs rescuing from the dragon. I'm the prince and I kill my own monsters. You need to be ok with that. -Anita Blake

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Princess, Winning, Dragons

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• Fredrika Bimm, what do you think you're doing?" "Freaking out. Losing my mind. Thinking about snapping your husband's spine. Squashing the urge to vomit. Wishing I had died at childbirth." "Oh, you say that when you don't get a prize in your Lucky Charms.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Husband, Thinking, Lucky Charms

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• I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study or kill me?" Floote raised a tentative hand. "Ah, yes, thank you, Floote." "There is also Mrs Tunstell, madam," he offered hopefully, is if Ivy were some kind of consolation prize. "I notice you don't mention my fair-weather husband." "I suspect, at this moment, madam, he probably wants to kill you." Alexia couldn't help smiling. "Good point.

  Gail Carriger

  Husband, Mean, Hands

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• Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.

  Edith Wharton

  Flower, Unattainable, Firsts

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2108, Delphi Classics

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• I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

  Saul Bellow

  Inspirational, Solitude, Company

  "Saul Bellow: Letters".

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• Life is the ultimate adventure, and Death, the prize that awaits us all.

  Chris Claremont

  Adventure, Life Is, Ultimate

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• Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Mean, Victory, Important

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.227, Macmillan

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• I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Wise, Ignorance, Dark

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• 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

  Crumbling, Crackers, Boxes

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