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To want to rule the world is to want to pamper this body. When you don't prize this body, you don't want to rule the world. — Lao-Tzu

He gives Himself as prize and reward: He is the refreshment of holy soul, the ransom of those in captivity. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

The EU is an unique project that replaced war with peace, hate with solidarity. Overwhelming emotion for awarding of Nobel prize to EU — Martin Schulz

A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well. — Tom Bethell

The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be. — John Banville

The vote has been costly. Prize it ... understand what it means and what it can do for your country. — Carrie Chapman Catt

O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,
And make my tongue victorious as her eyes. — Alexander Pope

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war. — Martin Firrell

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. — George Bernard Shaw

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling. — George Bernard Shaw

Happiness is never an accident. It is the prize we get when we choose wisely from life's stories — Joseph Dunn

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little. — Philip Warren Anderson

But you know, sometimes the fight itself is worthwile, even if the prize at the end ain't. — Barry Lyga

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. — George Bernard Shaw

Let many things unfold before their eyes, Let the crowd stare and be amazed, for then You'll win their hearts, and that's to win the prize; — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000. — Klaus Kinski

Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

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

The Eucharist, although it is the fullness of sacramental life, is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak. — Pope Francis

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. — Lois McMaster Bujold

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch. — Kathy Lette

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

I did not know that I can win the Nobel Prize. — Tim Hunt

Mercy and weakness are the same thing in war, and there's no prize for nice behavior. — Joe Abercrombie

This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon — Maria Sharapova

If at first you don't succeed, see if there is a prize for the losers. — Jerry Lawler

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes. — Oswald Chambers

Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve. — John O'Keefe

I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured. — Kailash Satyarthi

[On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize. — Bernice Rubens

The first thing I did with the prize money was to buy a paddy field for Apa. He would no longer be a landless farmer in an agricultural society. — M.C. Mary Kom

Life is the ultimate adventure, and Death, the prize that awaits us all. — Chris Claremont

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease. — Constance Baker Motley

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up. — Omar N. Bradley

I won't have anything to do with the Nobel Prize ... it's a pain in the ... (LAUGHS). I don't like honors. — Richard Feynman

You should prize this pain of yours. This is what will make you human all the way through. Nothing less will do that. — Diana Abu-Jaber

not to prize articles which are difficult to procure is the way to keep them from becoming thieves; — Lao-Tzu

The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose. — Bob Dylan

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge. — Orson Scott Card

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize. — Irene Joliot-Curie

any rational privateer would have long since scuttled southwards until the weather improved. No prize could be boarded in this. By — Julian Stockwin

Before God trusts you with success, you have to prove yourself humble enough to handle the big prize. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead. — Jedediah Bila

Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race. — Ian McEwan

Lest too light winning make the prize light. — William Shakespeare

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

I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important. — Marcel Carne

Increasing public awareness of risks of nuclear conflict is the core element of any successful nuclear-weapons-free world strategy. — Amit Ray

I was like the runner-up to Miss Mediocrity and my prize was awkward silence. — Rae Mariz

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize. — Gore Vidal

( ... ) I, for one, prize less
The name of king than deeds of kingly power;
And so would all who learn in wisdom's school. — Sophocles

Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead. — Drew Karpyshyn

We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man. — Erich Maria Remarque

Through life's journey, may your feet rest on solid ground, your hands touch the prize of life, and your heart find contentment. — Lorna Jackie Wilson

Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize. — Bill Walsh

The biggest toms would seldom win, she noticed; oft as not, the prize went to some smaller, quicker animal, thin and mean and hungry. — George R R Martin

Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize at the end. — Carol Kent

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize. — Kate Adie

Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize. — Frank Pittman

Make-up artists should hereby get the Nobel prize for adding to human happiness. And so should hairdressers. And so should Luke. — Sophie Kinsella

The truth is the truth, the only prize worth having. If you deny it, you're only showing that you're unworthy of it. — M.R. Carey

The much-sought prize of eternal youth
Is just arrested growth. — Edgar Lee Masters

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens. — Elie Wiesel

I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono. — Michael O'Leary

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000. — William Faulkner

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning. — William Makepeace Thackeray

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. — Naguib Mahfouz

I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize. — Dick Van Patten

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

I've learned to lick
my own foul wounds
and prize the taste of ache. — Chila Woychik

A reality show isn't unlike the Nobel Peace Prize, then," Mr. Bennet said. "In that they both require nominations. — Curtis Sittenfeld

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. — Homer

The prize of all too precious you. — William Shakespeare

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands. — Philip Warren Anderson

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics. — Clive Granger

He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too! — Friedrich Schiller

Keep your heart in the game and your eyes on the prize. — Nathania Gutierrez

We like the gift when we the giver prize. — John Sheffield, 1st Duke Of Buckingham And Normanby

Keep calm in the midst of the storms of life. Stay focus on the ultimate prize. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court. — Gabriela Sabatini

To meet the energy challenge requires the most important energy of all - human creativity. That's the real prize. — Daniel Yergin

The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction. — Trey Gowdy

Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself. — Maria Goeppert-Mayer

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. — Richard Gere

The best prize life has to offer is not a chance to work hard and be something in the community. It is the perfume of God that resides within you. — Enock Maregesi

I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much. — Saul Alinsky

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize. — Janet Maslin

Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world. — Marcus Garvey

I'm not sure what Al Gore did for peace. I don't think he have been high on my list for the Nobel Peace Prize. — Ron Paul

This could be the biggest mistake of my life. Or it could be the most perfect prize. One you've earned. — Belle Aurora

I prize freedom of the mind above freedom of the body. — Dorothy Dunnett

No matter what ever happens in your life ... always keep your eyes on the prize, It will help get you through every storm, — Timothy Pina

Keep your eyes on the prize for you cant hit an unseen target but don't forget to pay the price — Bernard Kelvin Clive

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. — William James

My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it. — Martin Amis