Quotes About Consolation Prize

#1. Self-awareness: it is one of the chief bonuses of advancing age. It is our consolation prize.

Louise Doughty

#2. if I was just the consolation prize.

Corinne Michaels

#3. Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

Jonathan Raymond

#4. Beautiful gay men are God's gift to women. They're like a consolation prize for ... well, for everything else about being a woman.

Meg Howrey

#5. I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

David Nicholls

#6. I wish you could see yourself through my eyes. Every woman who's met you wants a shot at you. How could you ever think you're the consolation prize?

Jamie McGuire

#7. SALLY Harry, I can't do this anymore. I am not your consolation prize. Goodbye.

Nora Ephron

#8. Being rich is an untalented artist's consolation prize.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#9. Does [your music] have to be a job? And as for your actual job ... do you have to think of [it] as a consolation prize? ... What if you just *played*? Isn't it possible you'd also like your job more, because you wouldn't think of it as something that's secretly had to replace this other thing?

Meg Wolitzer

#10. Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.

Lloyd D. Newell

#11. It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.

Mark Wahlberg

#12. You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving wife and happy children - that's life's greatest consolation prize.

Emo Philips

#13. She needs to decide if it's me she wants. I sure as hell won't be the consolation prize.

Corinne Michaels

#14. I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don't get the thing you want the most.

Lang Leav

#15. Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded would have given far more than that to escape as they have, and the unwounded regard the money as a consolation prize for still being here.

Robert Graves

#16. The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.

Don Bluth

#17. In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.

Robert Smith

#18. There is indescribable joy to be found, deep satisfaction to be felt, and an eternal purpose to be fulfilled in dying to ourselves and living for him.

David Platt

#19. Your hair is ridiculous,' I say. 'And I love you.' I'm surprised how easily the words come out.
'My hair is ridiculous.' Charlie smiles even wider and says, just as easily, 'And I love you too.

Jen Violi

#20. I'm a big believer in human nature.

Robert Agostinelli

#21. My morals went when the president got oral.

Eminem

#22. The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

Friedrich Nietzsche