#prize

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community. ↗

— Jon Porter

#been #century #community #fact #in fact

In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it's much harder work than big donations, but I think it's a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#big #campaigning #cash #democratic #dinners

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#fact #full #little #mere #morals

Parts win prizes, not actors. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#prizes #win

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

#belongs #his #his holiness #holiness #leap

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#being #book #booker #different #every

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession. ↗

— Nafisa Joseph

#book #closed #eyes #focused #gandhi

I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#authority #be true #because #believed #central

It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#committee #efforts #focused #greater #inspired

Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

#game #grand #life #prize #roulette