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Prize Quotes - Page 2

Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

William Shakespeare
Appreciation, Men, Prize
'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 2, l. [310]

The prize of all too precious you.

William Shakespeare
Love You, Prize
Sonnet 86

The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

Plato
Victory, Runners, Prize
Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.499, Xist Publishing

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American hyperpower for agreeing to spay itself into a hyperpoodle.

Mark Steyn
Dog, Biscuits, Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

John Bolton
Thinking, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel

My fines? I pay more fines than some guys' career prize money on the tour.

Goran Ivanisevic
Prize Money, Careers, Tennis

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

Omar Bongo
Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel, Prize

Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks. Just a few years later, after I had entered European Parliament, the same Yasser Arafat was given the Nobel Peace Prize.

Martin Schulz
Men, Years, Nobel Peace Prize
Source: www.spiegel.de

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.

Klaus Kinski
Want, Nobel, Prize

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

Joshua Lederberg
Labs, Nobel, Prize

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Gains, Rapture, Prize
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.858, Delphi Classics

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

Andre Agassi
Prize Money, Perspective, Tennis

The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.

Philip Warren Anderson
Years, Nobel, Prize

Only the believers pick up the prizes in life.

Norman Vincent Peale
Believer, Prize, Picks
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

Marcus Aurelius
Prize, Universe
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book V, (21), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty.

Judith Rich Harris
Poet, Prize

You can't praise what you don't prize.

John Piper
Praise, Prize
John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.1, Multnomah

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

Janet Maslin
Confused, Oscars, Nobel Peace Prize

He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.

Friedrich Schiller
Winning, Venture, Prize
Friedrich Schiller, Walter Hinderer, Daniel O. Dahlstrom (1993). “Essays”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

I have been very lucky, I have won prizes and I've even won the lottery.

Erro
Lucky, Prize, Has Beens
"Erró’s Pop and Politics". Interview with Martine Barrat, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

The prize is always worth the rocky ride.

Emily Saliers
Prize

It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.

E. B. White
Winning, People, Prize
E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.58, Cornell University Press

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

Terry Pratchett
Penalties, Ifs, Prize

After hearing that he has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Putin said, 'Tell me who the other nominees are - and I will eliminate them.'

Conan O'Brien
Hearing, Putin, Nobel Peace Prize

Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.

Christopher Marlowe
Wine, Water, Prize
Christopher Marlowe (2012). “Complete Poems”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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