Prize Quotes - Page 8

• Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared.

  Andrew Harvey

  Competition

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• Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Book, Fighting

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• The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.

  Stanley B. Prusiner

  Spring, Creativity, Unique

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• Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasmuch as it is the best. But this question would perhaps be more appropriate to another inquiry; happiness seems, however, even if it is not god-sent but comes as a result of virtue and some process of learning and training, to be among the most god-like things; for that which is the prize and end of virtue seems to be the best thing in the world, and something god-like and blessed.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Blessed, Men

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1737, Princeton University Press

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• Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods.

  Aristotle

  Men, Honor, Deeds

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• We've been able to watch on our television screens sophisticated weaponry find a building; and we've seen dramatic reports from the front where Pulitzer Prize-to-be winning reporters stood up and declared, the United States is attacked, and all that.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Winning, Political

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• I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.

  LeBron James

  Team, Winning, Nba

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• I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word marriage. Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure you get your equal rights? Eyes on the prize, we should be sticking to getting equal rights.

  Ani DiFranco

  Christian, Smart, Eye

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• What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy,
  The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy,
  Is virtue's prize.

  Alexander Pope

  Heart, Sunshine, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.137

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• Women are angels, wooing:
  Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:
  That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this--
  Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Angel, Men

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 2, l. [310]

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• Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

  William Shakespeare

  Appreciation, Men

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 2, l. [310]

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• Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Society, Vices, Disease

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.128

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• I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru.

  David Tennant

  Winning, Thinking, Doctors

  www.imdb.com.

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• We like the gift when we the giver prize.

  John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

  Giver

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• That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, while the man seems careless and indifferent.

  Sophy Burnham

  Eye, Men, Goal

  Sophy Burnham (2009). “The Treasure of Montsegur: A Novel of the Cathars”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• it is perfectly possible to converse with any cat, from prize-winning Siamese to alley tabby. Humans who are slow learners may start with a highly articulate Siamese and progress in time to the more sensitive and difficult business of talking to scared strays. Other people, naturally gifted, can talk to any cat right away.

  Patricia Moyes

  Cat, Winning, Talking

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• The politicians are no prizes, but the people are even worse, they're so ill-informed. I never understand the pushback when I say people are stupid.

  Bill Maher

  Stupid, People, Politician

  Source: www.tucsonweekly.com

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• For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  America, Long, Chiefs

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.34, Basic Books

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• A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well.

  Tom Bethell

  Media, Literature, Hunger

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• The fantasy of the wedding day is that it represents undeniable public and private truth that you have been chosen. For that one day, you are the most valuable creature in the world - a treasure, a princess, a prize.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Princess, One Day, Wedding Day

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• Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

  Jonathan Raymond

  Consolation, Consolation Prize

  "Q&A | Portland author Jon Raymond". Interview with Michael Upchurch, www.seattletimes.com. January 14, 2009.

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• I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.

  Jane McGonigal

  Games, Want, Designer

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• There is something so arbitrary about prizes.

  Steve Toltz

  Arbitrary

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• And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?

  Jandy Nelson

  Simple, People, Sound

  Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.101, Penguin

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• The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

  Orson Scott Card

  Ignorance, People, Purity

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1126, Macmillan

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