#prize

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#defense #despotism #destroy #doors #everywhere

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#countrymen #forget #hand #me #nobel

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#available #beautiful #beautiful woman #heart #her

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#freedom #let us #liberty #our #prize

I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all! ↗

— Bill McCartney

#just #never #package #part #prize

Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office. ↗

— Rory McIlroy

#am #andrews #around #building #could

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

#booker #great #i #i think #immune

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#fighters #hands #kiss #prize #reminds

My feelings, as the last ball travelled over the net, and as I realized that the final match was mine, I cannot describe. I felt that here was a prize for all the games I had ever played. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#cannot #describe #ever #feelings #felt

Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#anything #everybody #extraordinary #lots #never