#win

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#bent #breeding #caliber #good #good breeding

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#chrysalis #degrees #eyes #fact #fiction

Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone? ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#because #best #certainly #decide #decision

It's not so much I like to go win, but it's a rush. A horrible gut wrenching thing, but it's exciting. ↗

— Corbin Bernsen

#go #gut #horrible #i #like

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner. ↗

— Halle Berry

#good #good loser #i #kid #loser

People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. ↗

— Halle Berry

#down #expectation #fall #head #huge

Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

#civil rights #create #does #everybody #get

Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine. ↗

— John Betjeman

#full #port #red #silver #wine

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view. ↗

— Joe Biden

#go #home #hoping #i #kids

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle. ↗

— Joe Biden

#aisle #been #being #cross #democratic