Gracious In Victory Humble In Defeat Quotes

#1. When I was a kid ... if I couldn't get a ride to the comic book store, I would walk a mile and a half each way to get the latest issues of 'Batman' and 'Spider-Man' and 'X-Men.' I could not choose one over the other.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#2. Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#3. The rain had stopped and the sky was absurdly pretty, a single layer of floury cloudlets pinked and peached by the rising sun. Only the juvenile, the mad, and the newly in love noticed. The rest of the city got its head down and ploughed tearily into another day of neurosis.

Glen Duncan

#4. One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#5. [In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious ...

May Sarton

#6. Monica Sevilla will present the "ePublishing in Education" on November 5, 2o11 at 8am at
Mulholland Middle School, Van Nuys.

Monica Sevilla

#7. We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.

Winston Churchill

#8. Shake hands, kids," Jack said. "Remember, humble in victory, gracious in defeat." He grinned up at her. "I feel very humble, don't you?

Kristan Higgins

#9. Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

Benjamin Disraeli

#10. I would steal horses
for you, if there were any left

Sherman Alexie

#11. That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Christopher Hitchens

#12. Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does.

Anne Roe

#13. Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.

C. G. Jung

#14. Be humble in victory and gracious in defeat.

Christopher Earle

#15. We really do see astigmatically, in fundamental sense: our space and time creations of our own psyche and when these momentarily falter - like acute disturbance of middle ear.
Occasionally we list eccentrically, all sense of balance gone.

Philip K. Dick

#16. Maybe I should stand outside the Adam & Eve store holding a sign reading "Single Mom, Anything Helps" and a cup for change.

Joanna Wylde