Prize Quotes
One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.
This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
I've truly been blessed. I've taken my time, kept my eye on the prize and done what I've had to do. So I'm able to make a choice when to retire. Most fighters really couldn't.
When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.
Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.
The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.
The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.
Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all that glisters gold.
The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.
It was Joseph Smith who taught me how to prize the endearing relationships of father and mother, husband and wife; of brother and sister, son and daughter, mashed potatoes and gravy.
The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.
Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.
I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru.
Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?
I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.
You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold.
If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.
Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours.
The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.
Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.
We should be holy people eager to greet our Lord when He returns, ready at any moment for the trumpet's call, people of optimism, busy in evangelism, hands to the plow, eyes on the prize.
On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.
I'm at peace with myself. My film just may please audiences. At any rate, it's already a great prize to be part of just 16 films among all of the world cinema out there. I'm tranquil and satisfied.
With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore.
The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.
