Prize Quotes - Page 24

• 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

  Kindness, Simple, What Matters

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• O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it,
  That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?

  Francis Quarles

  Giving, World, Give And Take

  Francis Quarles, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1778). “Emblems divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man”

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• Alas! the joys that fortune brings
  Are trifling, and decay,
  And those who prize the trifling things,
  More trifling still than they.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Joy, Decay, Fortune

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.5

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• The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Girl, Years, Given

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• Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd,
  And still where many a garden flower grows wild,
  There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,
  The village preacher's modest mansion rose.
  A man he was to all the country dear,
  And passing rich with forty pounds a year;
  Remote from town's he ran his godly race,
  Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place;
  Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power,
  By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour;
  Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize.
  More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Fashion, Flower

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres”, p.69

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• In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it's a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at.

  Charles Hard Townes

  Winning, People, Pity

  "Charles H. Townes: What I've Learned" by Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother.

  Jane Porter

  Mother, Beloved Wife, Careers

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• Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks. Just a few years later, after I had entered European Parliament, the same Yasser Arafat was given the Nobel Peace Prize.

  Martin Schulz

  Men, Years, Nobel Peace Prize

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.

  Zhuangzi

  Archer, Skills, Two

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• Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. They are the first to figure out all the charges on their telephone bill.

  Jay Leno

  Two, Bills, Telephones

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• Two sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become the president of Princeton and start their Internet company. And I just started to think about What's the conventional load of those expectations you carry around? You have to pull them out one by one and smash them in the corner. You realize the pile is quite high. But in a way, it becomes oddly liberating to do that.

  Ron Suskind

  Daughter, Son, Winning

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I have been very lucky, I have won prizes and I've even won the lottery.

  Erro

  Lucky, Has Beens, Lottery

  "Erró’s Pop and Politics". Interview with Martine Barrat, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. King was vilified by many, denounced as a rabble rouser and an agitator, a communist and a radical. He was even attacked by his own people, by those who felt he was going too fast or those who felt he was going too slow; by those who felt he shouldn't meddle in issues like the Vietnam War or the rights of union workers.

  Barack Obama

  Kings, War, Winning

  Barack Obama's remarks at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Dedication at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 16, 2011.

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• I don't want anything. I don't want a job. I don't want to be respectable. I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diners Club.

  Gore Vidal

  Art, Jobs, Diners

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• My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee couldn’t make up its mind which of my projects to recognize.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Children, Mind, Used

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• I feel relief about the Oscars. You know, you're not in this business for prizes but, okay, I missed one.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Relief, Oscars, Okay

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• I did my BA in English lit, and hated the restriction - I'd always read more in translation than not; coming from a working-class background, what I knew of as British literature - the writers who made big prize lists and/or were stocked in WH Smith, Doncaster's only bookshop until I was 17 - seemed incredibly, alienatingly middle-class. Then in 2009, just after the financial crash, I graduated with no more specific skill than 'can analyse a bit of poetry'.

  Deborah Smith

  Class, Skills, Literature

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I was fortunate enough, after many visits to many wonderful, weird people to come across Burt Rutan, who is a genius in the Mojave Desert. And SpaceShipOne was born and had three flights into space that won something called the X Prize. And from there, we're building SpaceShipTwo, which is ... a beautiful spaceship that is very, very, very nearly completed and will be ready from about next Christmas onwards to start taking people into space.

  Richard Branson

  Beautiful, Space, People

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• Will I have to explain to my daughter that her brother is gonna make more money doing the exact same job because he's a man? If they both played sports since they were three years old, they both worked just as hard, but because he's a boy, they're gonna give him more money? Like, how am I gonna explain that to her? In tennis we've had great pioneers that paved the way - including Venus [Williams], who fought so hard for Wimbledon to pay women the same prize money they pay men, and Billie Jean King, who is one of the main reasons Title IX exists.

  Serena Williams

  Sports, Daughter, Brother

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.

  Jean Cocteau

  Trying, Accepting, Should

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• Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.

  James Cook

  Belief, Surrender, Victim

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• Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty.

  Judith Rich Harris

  Poet

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• No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

  Stephen Hawking

  Winning, Joy, Research

  "Stephen Hawking's £1.8m physics prize win proves time is money" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. Whigs and Tories, Liberal party and Labour party - for what do they battle except their own prestige? It is not love of truth but desire to prevail that sets quarter against quarter and makes subserviency rather than the triumph of truth and the exaltation of virtue - but these moralities belong, and should be left to the historian, since they are as dull as ditch water.

  Virginia Woolf

  Party, Believe, Passion

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it remains a public and compulsory institution.

  Ludwig von Mises

  School, Character, Long

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

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