Quotes & Sayings About Ungracious Winners

The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger. — Cornelia Funke

It is a terrible moment when you realise you'll never do all the best things this world can offer; that you'll never have a superlative experience. You'll go to a Gala Bingo rather than Vegas; get your own office, but not be a CEO; and get a gravestone, but not in Poet's Corner. You'll never sleep with the girls on the TV. And all of this mediocrity was made worse by the fact of its inescapable prevalence. — Django Wylie

I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain. — John Eccles

They worried that I spent too much time alone, clinging to the notion that socializing was therapeutic. So was electroshock, I reminded them. — Ransom Riggs

I was born with eyes that can never close... — Joy Harjo