Quotes About 1st Place

#1. Your Soviet players are cheating, losing the games on purpose to my rival, Botvinnik, in order to increase his points on the score. - (to Stalin in Moscow 1936 where he finished in 1st place, 1 point ahead of Botvinnik)

Jose Raul Capablanca

#2. Nearly all of us have a deep rooted wish for peace-peace on earth; but we shall never attain the true peace-the peace of love, and not the uneasy equilibrium of fear-until we recognize the place of animals in the scheme of things and treat them accordingly.

Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

#3. Somehow you always stayed quiet." He laid his hands beside each of mine, so that if he'd been solid, I would've been pinned between his body and the dresser. "Remember?

Jeri Smith-Ready

#4. Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury

#5. The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.

John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn

#6. I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#7. We're excited to be appearing in Tel Aviv in the framework of the Pic.nic festival. This is an important tour for us and we're glad that Israel is part of it

Julio Iglesias

#8. Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!
Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.

Chaim Potok

#9. Dresden? There is not such a place any longer." "I want to point out, that besides Essen, we never actually considered any particular industrial sites as targets. The destruction of industrial sites always was some sort of bonus for us. Our real targets always were the inner cities.

Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

#10. The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#11. Are you in fashion? You look like you're in fashion."
"No," [Magnus] said. "I am fashion.

Cassandra Clare

#12. When one of us alternates between time and space the rest of us drive by the airport.

Lisa Fishman

#13. It is strongly suspected that a NEWTON or SHAKESPEARE excels other mortals only by a more ample development of the anterior cerebral lobes, by having an extra inch of brain in the right place.

Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

#14. Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

George Bernard Shaw

#15. And who am i? Do you know who i am?"
She smiled up at him, showing him her pointed teeth. "Of course i do. You're Damon and I love you.

L.J.Smith

#16. The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.

Jonathan Swift

#17. If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life
mine or that of my fellow man
is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?

Elie Wiesel

#18. His smile, he knew, was now lopsided and somewhat sinister, as if one half of him were amused while the other unimpressed by the same joke.

Chris Womersley

#19. At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

Nikki Reed