Winner Stands Alone Quotes

#1. The winner stands alone.

Paulo Coelho

#2. For me, writing post-apocalyptic novels isn't so much about exploding helicopters and fifty-megaton doomsday bombs as it is about the pleasure of dealing with the best of everything that makes us human: cleverness, grit, loyalty, and self-sacrifice.

Jeff Carlson

#3. I have never been able to use that soap since. Scents are too evocative and the merest whiff jerks me back to that first night away from my wife, and to the feeling I had then.

James Herriot

#4. If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again- only this time with more wisdom.
But once he has started, a warrior of the light perseveres until the end.

Paulo Coelho

#5. Fashion is merely a saying: I belong to your world. I'm wearing the same uniform as your army, so don't shoot.

Paulo Coelho

#6. You should not be hovering in the background, inflating the drama. Simply envelop him in love and affection and let him know that you will support his efforts, whatever they are.

Amy Dickinson

#7. How perverse! just when everything seems to be in order and as families gather round the table to have supper,the phantom of the superclass appears,selling impossible dreams:luxury,beauty,power.And the family falls apart

Paulo Coelho

#8. Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black.

Paulo Coelho

#9. I'd rather see a kid get fixated on something they can turn into a career.

Temple Grandin

#10. Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain.

Paulo Coelho

#11. The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them. The Superclass, everyone's dream, a world without shadows or darkness, where yes is the only possible answer to any request.

Paulo Coelho

#12. If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#13. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Steven Wright

#14. I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself.

William Howard Taft

#15. No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson