I've made peace with myself.
Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.
Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.
- Joe Abercrombie
I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.
- Floyd Abrams
No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.
- Floyd Abrams
Lazy Lob and crazy Cob
are weaving webs to wind me.
I am far more sweet than other meat,
but still they cannot find me!
Here am I, naughty little fly;
you are fat and lazy.
You cannot trap me, though you try,
in your cobwebs crazy.
- J R R Tolkien
So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.
- J R R Tolkien
And then Franklin smote the ground and up rose George Washington, fully dressed and astride a horse! Then the three of them, Franklin, Washington and the HORSE, proceeded to win the entire revolution single handley!
- John Adams
If you're going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don't win, you're usually no worse off than if you hadn't played.
- Scott Adams
Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he is a shining example of how to serve your masters with absolute fidelity, love, and devotion.
These are the kinds of gods they have foisted on us Mr. Jiabao. Understand, now, how hard it is for a man to win his freedom in India.
- Aravind Adiga
It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
- Andre Agassi
If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.
- Andre Agassi
All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
- Spiro T Agnew
We have won battles that are strange and strong for a carnal man to win.
- Jaachynma N E Agu
I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.
- Clay Aiken
I knew Scotty was going to win. At the beginning of the episode, I was like, 'Scotty, are you ready to win?'. I knew he was going to in my heart. I accepted it. I couldn't pick a more perfect person to get second place to. He's my best friend.
- Lauren Alaina
In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.
- Mitch Albom
I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.
- Paulo Coelho
I'm losing the Love i have without having yet won the Love i hope to win.
- Paulo Coelho
In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.
- Paulo Coelho
- Do not forget: seek to win all your battles, including those you fight against yourself. Do not fear the scars. Do not be afraid of victory.
- Paulo Coelho
Peter took a shuddering breath. He wondered what his fish had thought, expecting the cool blue of the sea, only to wind up swimming in shit.
- Jodi Picoult
The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.
- Jodi Picoult
Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.
- Amy Alcott
Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.
- Lamar Alexander
I didn't have the base I needed to win the election.
- Rodney Alexander
We don't just want to win the Super Bowl, we want to make a dynasty. I want to be a player who makes that a reality.
- Shaun Alexander
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
- Muhammad Ali
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
- Muhammad Ali
Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
- Jesse Jackson
Hugo attacked me." Clary tried not to wince as the astringent liquid stung her wounds.
Hugo?" Luke blinked.
Hodge's bird. I think it was his bird, anyway. Maybe it was Valentine's."
Hugin," Luke said softly. "Hugin and Munin were Valentine's pet birds. Their names mean 'Thought' and 'Memory.'"
Well they should mean 'Attack' and 'Kill,'" said Clary. "Hugo almost tore my eyes out.
- Cassandra Clare
There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint, begging, "Dear saintplease, please, please... give me the grace to win the lottery." This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue comes to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust, "My sonplease, please, please... buy a ticket.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
To win a war, we must kill our enemies.
- Ernest Hemingway
The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.
- Charles L Allen
How did you wage a battle for a man's spirit when the man himself wasn't sure he wanted you to win?
- Katherine Allred
I finally understood that no matter what I did, or who I found, I-he-none of us-would ever be able to win over the memories she had of Dad, memories that soothed her even while they made her sad, because she'd built a world out of them she knew how to survive on even if no one else could.
- Nicole Krauss
If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
- Fernando Alonso
Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors.
- Fernando Alonso
Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election.
- Eric Alterman
I never play, because I am not rich enough to afford to lose or poor enough to want to win.
Maximilien Morrel, The Count of Monte Cristo
- Alexandre Dumas
We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..
- Stephen Ambrose
Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They hadn't come to die. They had come to win.
- Stephen Ambrose
We held hands when we walked down the gingerbread path into the forest, blood dripping from our fingers. We danced with witches and kissed monsters. We turned us into wintergirls, when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
- Van Morrison
Television is much more difficult because at every moment the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You're in a constant debate with a gun at your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it's hard to win the arguments.
- Judd Apatow
I was slightly disappointed, but also encouraged, because I put myself in position to win a major, which is all even Tiger says he tries to do.
- Stuart Appleby
I was Jake's insurance policy. He thought
maybe he wouldn't have to use me. He hoped,
anyway. But down deep he knew, and I knew, and
we both hid the truth from the others because
Cassie couldn't let Jake make that decision, and
Tobias couldn't let me, and those two, by loving
us, would have screwed everything up.
It was a war, after all. A war we had to win.
- Katherine Applegate
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
- Aristophanes
Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.
- Lisa Kleypas
Roy received my comments with a forced
smile. "Hardy, didn't I warn you not to date a woman who reads?"
Hardy seemed amused by my outspokenness. "Keeps the arguing to a minimum," he replied. "No point in trying when I know she's going to win.
- Lisa Kleypas
I'll take your bet," he said grimly. "I'm going to win it. And in three months, I'm going to put this back on your finger, and take you to bed, and do things to you that are outlawed in the civilized world.
- Lisa Kleypas
I'm not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they would do, even for someone they love. I have none. No God, no moral code, no faith in anything. Except you. You're my religion. I would do anything you asked. I would fight, steal, kill for you.
-Kev to Win
- Lisa Kleypas
She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope."
"Never be afraid to hope," Rohan said gently. "It's the
only way to begin."
-Rohan to Win
- Lisa Kleypas
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
- Aristotle
I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.
- Roone Arledge
Whispers followed me down the hall. Ignoring them was harder than I'd imagined. Every Cell in my body demanded that I confront them. And do what? Jump on them like a crazy spider monkey and take them all out? Yah, not going to win me any fans.
- Jennifer L Armentrout
It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
- Lance Armstrong
For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
- Owen Arthur
Johnny Flora Author of "The Spell of Zalanon and Wake Co."
Quote Du Jour; Fare better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that neither knows victory or defeat...Theodore Roosevelt
- Johnny Flora
The count said in careful English, "That was perhaps not, as you English say, very sporting."
"Games are played to win," Cameron said. "And we're Scottish.
- Jennifer Ashley
When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules.
You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you've gone down fighting the good fight.
- Paul Auster
There is no possible negotiation with these killers. Our aim is to win over terrorism. Only by being firm we can stop terrorism. We must be firm fighting the terrorists and opposing the final aims they want to achieve.
- Jose Maria Aznar
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
- Joe Baca
In order to win, you must expect to win.
- Richard Bach
Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.
- Richard Bach
O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.
- Robert Baden Powell
When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.
- Buck Baker
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
- Leslie Banks
The French are often, when it comes to wine, so formal that they border on the ridiculous.
- Muriel Barbery
Those old hypocrites. The talk about killing witches but the Good Book's full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What's that if it's not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!
- Clive Barker
The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.
- Fred Barnes
It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it.
- Michael D Barnes
I want the tigard. (Varyk)
And I want you to leave. Guess who's going to win this argument? And in case you're even denser than you appear, it's not you. (Dev)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.
- Michael Bay
To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.
- Evan Bayh
I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it.
- Don Baylor
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.
- Albert Camus
With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.
- David Beckham
I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.
- Paul Begala
Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.
- Ed Belfour
The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.
- Richie Benaud
What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
- Patty Berg
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that
men have died to win them.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Franklin D Roosevelt
It's sometimes hard to avoid losing. Nobody's going to win all the time.
- Haruki Murakami
It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, the more it betook of stillness, the more this world that enveloped me seemed to overflow with things and people that could only be called strange. They had been there all the while, it seemed, waiting in the shadows for me to stop moving. And every time the wind-up bird came to my yard to wind its spring, the world descendedmore deeply into chaos.
- Haruki Murakami
Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.
- Haruki Murakami
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
- Annie Besant
Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body.
The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently.
By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved totally by our persistent willpower.
- Toba Beta
Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.
The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires.
- Toba Beta
One thing that makes aikido is so powerful,
it utilizes power of opponents to win the fight.
- Toba Beta
Smartass Disciple: Master, you should teach people not to do war to each other.
Master of Stupidity: I should teach people how to win their minds of their wars.
- Toba Beta
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
I won't even pretend I didn't care. I wanted to win. I mean, if you don't care about winning the competition, why show up?
- Justin Bieber
Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.
- Robert Kiyosaki
I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.
- Bonnie Blair
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season.
- Sepp Blatter
That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.
- Drew Bledsoe
Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.
- Enid Blyton
No, let's make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that we have no choice but to win it. As difficult as it is.
- John Boehner
The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.
- Wade Boggs
Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
- Usain Bolt
This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!
- Bobby Bonilla
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence
- William Shakespeare
As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it.
- Bjorn Borg
You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.
- Bjorn Borg
I wanted to win, even in practice.
- Bjorn Borg
We must take arms each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle can not be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.
- Ray Bradbury
To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
- Ian Botham
To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.
- Ian Botham
And suddenly, in the place of the woman-shape made of shadow, there was something else. Something huge, something ugly. Linay flung up both hands. The thing screamed like a hawk and opened to wings: one white as a death cap, one clotted in shadow. The wings came together and the whole pond shuddered.
Something hit Kate's ear and shoulder and smashed to the deck by her feet. It was a swallow, dead. She could hear them falling all over the pond.
- Erin Bow
To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
- Barbara Boxer
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
- Carl Sandburg
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
- Omar N Bradley
You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.
- Terry Bradshaw
The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
- Tom Brady
Dalinar forced himself to be calm. "Roion, we cannot continue to treat this war as a game."
"All wars are games. The greatest kind, with the pieces lost real lives, the prizes captured making
for real wealth! This is the life for which men exist. To fight, to kill, to win.
- Brandon Sanderson
War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.
- Libba Bray
No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky.
- Wilford Brimley
To win you've got to stay in the game.
- Claude M Bristol
I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2.
- Eric Bristow
My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.
- Poppy Z Brite
I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
- Mel Brooks
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.
- John F Kennedy
It's okay for someone to let you win sometimes, you know,' he said, getting all serious. 'We don't always have to be the losers, Valerie. They may want to make us feel that way, but we're not. Sometimes we get to win, too.
- Jennifer Brown
I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.
- Gordon Brown
There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.
- Les Brown
All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.
- Pat Brown
The key to winning is poise under stress.
- Paul Brown
In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose.
- Sandra Brown
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
- Zig Ziglar
To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.
- Tina Brown
We have got some very big problems confronting us and let us not make any mistake about it, human history in the future is fraught with tragedy... It's only through people making a stand against that tragedy and being doggedly optimistic that we are going to win through. If you look at the plight of the human race it could well tip you into despair, so you have to be very strong.
- Robert James Brown
I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.
- Kobe Bryant
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
- Paul Bryant
It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.
- Paul Bryant
Just a month after the completion of the Declaration of Independence, at a time when he delegates might have been expected to occupy themselves with more pressing concerns -like how they were going to win the war and escape hanging- Congress quite extraordinarily found time to debate business for a motto for the new nation. (Their choice, E Pluribus Unum, "One from Many", was taken from, of all places, a recipe for salad in an early poem by Virgil.)
- Bill Bryson
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
- George Bernard Shaw
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one."
George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)
"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
Churchill's response
- George Bernard Shaw
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- Buddha
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
- Robert Frost
Take heart, sir," Cazaril consoled him. "It is not your destiny today to win a royacy for your son. It is to win an empire for your grandson.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.
- Charles Bukowski
I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.
- Charles Bukowski
Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
- Edward G Bulwerlytton
Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.
- Rick Riordan
On a basketball court, five players were in the middle of an intense game. They wore assortment of jerseys from different American teams, and they all seemed keen to wingrunting and snarling at each other, stealing the ball and pushing.
Oh...and the players were all baboons.
- Rick Riordan
In the world of the superheroes, everything had value, potential, mystery. Any person, thing, or object could be drafted into service in the struggle against darkness and evil - remade as a weapon or a warrior or a superhero. Even a little bee named Michael - after God's own avenging angel - could pitch in to win the battle against wickedness.
- Grant Morrison
All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.
- George W Bush
I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too.
- Laura Bush
I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments
- Albert Einstein
People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. Before you make a statement about someone, get all the information and see everything before you make a judgment.
- Amanda Bynes
And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and, consequently, they do. They always have. She wins because she expects to win. I do not expect what I want, so I dont. And I dont even try.
- Emily Giffin
In short, I have no real faith in my own happiness. And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and consequently, they do. They always have. She wins because ehse expects to win. I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try.
- Emily Giffin
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
- Voltaire
I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how to win and lose. There's a thousand kids outside, you know who to push and who not to push. There's a sixth sense you develop just because it's New York.
- James Caan
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
- Arthur Calwell
Deplorable practices adopted during the last century were repeatedly declared necessary if regrettable in order to win the war. Oddly enough, we've yet to win. You'd think somebody would have asked before this why the regrettable but necessary measures haven't actually produced the promised results.
- Jack Campbell
You can't win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.
- Jack Campbell
I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.
- Eric Cantona
I'm happy with what I've done but it's a challenge to try to win more.
- Jennifer Capriati
To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.
- Jennifer Capriati
I have to win this now, and for all time, or I'll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.
- Orson Scott Card
Buut how to fight with singers, how to win a gift that could only be given freely- those were questions whose answers could not be found.
- Orson Scott Card
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Even if you're doing the national insurance awards, there's still that excitement when you wonder who is going to win, er, best premiums.
- Jimmy Carr
The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him.
- D A Carson
I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.
- Gary Carter
He allowed the world to wind him in the final set of chains, and climbed, once and for all, into the cabinet of mysteries that was the life of an ordinary man.
- Michael Chabon
Must not fight simply to win; no holds barred is not the way; you must win by the rules.
- John Graham Chambers
I lay there, no longer fighting, since my head was spinning too much. And because I wasn't going to win anyway. And because I kind of liked the feeling of sensual captivity, at least by this particular jailer.
- Karen Chance
For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces.
- Michael Chang
The crazy people of the world...shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least.
- Stephen King
Looking back on it, Sloat wasn't sure how he had tolerated Phil Sawyer for as long as he had. His partner had never played to win, not seriously; he had been encumbered by sentimental notions of loyalty and honor, corrupted by the stuff you told kids to get them halfway civilized before you finally tore the blindfold off their eyes.
- Stephen King
I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomorrow, a little better still. This is just a part of your life, and it's over. It would have been better to win, but either way, it's over. Life will go on.
- Stephen King
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
- Marian Wright Edelman
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
- Agatha Christie
But without humans, the wild would take over. It would only take a hundred years or so for nature to win again.
- Lucy Christopher
The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.
- Tom Clancy
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
- Arthur Rimbaud
So I'm going to tell you, it's going to be a good year. There are good players all over this country, and it is our job as a scouting department to find them, draft them, sign them, develop them, and help us to continue to win championships. So it's going to be a good year.
- Roy Clark
For so long I wanted to win the gold medal.Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.
- Bryan Clay
We are running out of time. We need a strategy to win in Iraq or an exit strategy to leave.
- Max Cleland
I would love to do well one last time in Melbourne and my dream would be to win Wimbledon and play in the London Olympics.
- Kim Clijsters
Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
- Brian Clough
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
- Sun Tzu
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
- Sun Tzu
I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
- Leonard Cohen
jaded, adj.
In the end, we both want the right thing to happen, the right person to win, the right idea to prevail. We have no faith that it will, but still we want it. Neither of us has given up on anything.
- David Levithan
I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line.
- David Levithan
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely.
- Hunter S Thompson
Humans! They lived in the world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and anzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time..
- Terry Pratchett
[...] Lachlain said, "Before you go, I wanted to pass on some advice. Emma told me that to win your mate, you have to accept Regin. The two are thick as thieves. Always have been. Since they were children."
"So calling Regin a glowing bluidy freak dinna help my cause? On top of the lie? Christ, I've bollixed this up.
- Kresley Cole
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
- Robert Collier
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
- Confucius
I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.
- Jennifer Connelly
I hate to lose more than I love to win.
- Jimmy Connors
I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.
- Jack K Cooke
Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.
Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.
- Joe Abercrombie
I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.
- Floyd Abrams
No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.
- Floyd Abrams
Lazy Lob and crazy Cob
are weaving webs to wind me.
I am far more sweet than other meat,
but still they cannot find me!
Here am I, naughty little fly;
you are fat and lazy.
You cannot trap me, though you try,
in your cobwebs crazy.
- J R R Tolkien
So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.
- J R R Tolkien
And then Franklin smote the ground and up rose George Washington, fully dressed and astride a horse! Then the three of them, Franklin, Washington and the HORSE, proceeded to win the entire revolution single handley!
- John Adams
If you're going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don't win, you're usually no worse off than if you hadn't played.
- Scott Adams
Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he is a shining example of how to serve your masters with absolute fidelity, love, and devotion.
These are the kinds of gods they have foisted on us Mr. Jiabao. Understand, now, how hard it is for a man to win his freedom in India.
- Aravind Adiga
It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
- Andre Agassi
If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.
- Andre Agassi
All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
- Spiro T Agnew
We have won battles that are strange and strong for a carnal man to win.
- Jaachynma N E Agu
I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.
- Clay Aiken
I knew Scotty was going to win. At the beginning of the episode, I was like, 'Scotty, are you ready to win?'. I knew he was going to in my heart. I accepted it. I couldn't pick a more perfect person to get second place to. He's my best friend.
- Lauren Alaina
In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.
- Mitch Albom
I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.
- Paulo Coelho
I'm losing the Love i have without having yet won the Love i hope to win.
- Paulo Coelho
In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.
- Paulo Coelho
- Do not forget: seek to win all your battles, including those you fight against yourself. Do not fear the scars. Do not be afraid of victory.
- Paulo Coelho
Peter took a shuddering breath. He wondered what his fish had thought, expecting the cool blue of the sea, only to wind up swimming in shit.
- Jodi Picoult
The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.
- Jodi Picoult
Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.
- Amy Alcott
Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.
- Lamar Alexander
I didn't have the base I needed to win the election.
- Rodney Alexander
We don't just want to win the Super Bowl, we want to make a dynasty. I want to be a player who makes that a reality.
- Shaun Alexander
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
- Muhammad Ali
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
- Muhammad Ali
Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
- Jesse Jackson
Hugo attacked me." Clary tried not to wince as the astringent liquid stung her wounds.
Hugo?" Luke blinked.
Hodge's bird. I think it was his bird, anyway. Maybe it was Valentine's."
Hugin," Luke said softly. "Hugin and Munin were Valentine's pet birds. Their names mean 'Thought' and 'Memory.'"
Well they should mean 'Attack' and 'Kill,'" said Clary. "Hugo almost tore my eyes out.
- Cassandra Clare
There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint, begging, "Dear saintplease, please, please... give me the grace to win the lottery." This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue comes to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust, "My sonplease, please, please... buy a ticket.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
To win a war, we must kill our enemies.
- Ernest Hemingway
The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.
- Charles L Allen
How did you wage a battle for a man's spirit when the man himself wasn't sure he wanted you to win?
- Katherine Allred
I finally understood that no matter what I did, or who I found, I-he-none of us-would ever be able to win over the memories she had of Dad, memories that soothed her even while they made her sad, because she'd built a world out of them she knew how to survive on even if no one else could.
- Nicole Krauss
If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
- Fernando Alonso
Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors.
- Fernando Alonso
Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election.
- Eric Alterman
I never play, because I am not rich enough to afford to lose or poor enough to want to win.
Maximilien Morrel, The Count of Monte Cristo
- Alexandre Dumas
We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..
- Stephen Ambrose
Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They hadn't come to die. They had come to win.
- Stephen Ambrose
We held hands when we walked down the gingerbread path into the forest, blood dripping from our fingers. We danced with witches and kissed monsters. We turned us into wintergirls, when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
- Van Morrison
Television is much more difficult because at every moment the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You're in a constant debate with a gun at your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it's hard to win the arguments.
- Judd Apatow
I was slightly disappointed, but also encouraged, because I put myself in position to win a major, which is all even Tiger says he tries to do.
- Stuart Appleby
I was Jake's insurance policy. He thought
maybe he wouldn't have to use me. He hoped,
anyway. But down deep he knew, and I knew, and
we both hid the truth from the others because
Cassie couldn't let Jake make that decision, and
Tobias couldn't let me, and those two, by loving
us, would have screwed everything up.
It was a war, after all. A war we had to win.
- Katherine Applegate
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
- Aristophanes
Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.
- Lisa Kleypas
Roy received my comments with a forced
smile. "Hardy, didn't I warn you not to date a woman who reads?"
Hardy seemed amused by my outspokenness. "Keeps the arguing to a minimum," he replied. "No point in trying when I know she's going to win.
- Lisa Kleypas
I'll take your bet," he said grimly. "I'm going to win it. And in three months, I'm going to put this back on your finger, and take you to bed, and do things to you that are outlawed in the civilized world.
- Lisa Kleypas
I'm not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they would do, even for someone they love. I have none. No God, no moral code, no faith in anything. Except you. You're my religion. I would do anything you asked. I would fight, steal, kill for you.
-Kev to Win
- Lisa Kleypas
She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope."
"Never be afraid to hope," Rohan said gently. "It's the
only way to begin."
-Rohan to Win
- Lisa Kleypas
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
- Aristotle
I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.
- Roone Arledge
Whispers followed me down the hall. Ignoring them was harder than I'd imagined. Every Cell in my body demanded that I confront them. And do what? Jump on them like a crazy spider monkey and take them all out? Yah, not going to win me any fans.
- Jennifer L Armentrout
It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
- Lance Armstrong
For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
- Owen Arthur
Johnny Flora Author of "The Spell of Zalanon and Wake Co."
Quote Du Jour; Fare better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that neither knows victory or defeat...Theodore Roosevelt
- Johnny Flora
The count said in careful English, "That was perhaps not, as you English say, very sporting."
"Games are played to win," Cameron said. "And we're Scottish.
- Jennifer Ashley
When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules.
You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you've gone down fighting the good fight.
- Paul Auster
There is no possible negotiation with these killers. Our aim is to win over terrorism. Only by being firm we can stop terrorism. We must be firm fighting the terrorists and opposing the final aims they want to achieve.
- Jose Maria Aznar
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
- Joe Baca
In order to win, you must expect to win.
- Richard Bach
Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.
- Richard Bach
O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.
- Robert Baden Powell
When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.
- Buck Baker
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
- Leslie Banks
The French are often, when it comes to wine, so formal that they border on the ridiculous.
- Muriel Barbery
Those old hypocrites. The talk about killing witches but the Good Book's full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What's that if it's not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!
- Clive Barker
The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.
- Fred Barnes
It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it.
- Michael D Barnes
I want the tigard. (Varyk)
And I want you to leave. Guess who's going to win this argument? And in case you're even denser than you appear, it's not you. (Dev)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.
- Michael Bay
To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.
- Evan Bayh
I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it.
- Don Baylor
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.
- Albert Camus
With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.
- David Beckham
I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.
- Paul Begala
Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.
- Ed Belfour
The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.
- Richie Benaud
What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
- Patty Berg
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that
men have died to win them.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Franklin D Roosevelt
It's sometimes hard to avoid losing. Nobody's going to win all the time.
- Haruki Murakami
It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, the more it betook of stillness, the more this world that enveloped me seemed to overflow with things and people that could only be called strange. They had been there all the while, it seemed, waiting in the shadows for me to stop moving. And every time the wind-up bird came to my yard to wind its spring, the world descendedmore deeply into chaos.
- Haruki Murakami
Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.
- Haruki Murakami
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
- Annie Besant
Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body.
The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently.
By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved totally by our persistent willpower.
- Toba Beta
Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.
The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires.
- Toba Beta
One thing that makes aikido is so powerful,
it utilizes power of opponents to win the fight.
- Toba Beta
Smartass Disciple: Master, you should teach people not to do war to each other.
Master of Stupidity: I should teach people how to win their minds of their wars.
- Toba Beta
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
I won't even pretend I didn't care. I wanted to win. I mean, if you don't care about winning the competition, why show up?
- Justin Bieber
Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.
- Robert Kiyosaki
I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.
- Bonnie Blair
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season.
- Sepp Blatter
That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.
- Drew Bledsoe
Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.
- Enid Blyton
No, let's make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that we have no choice but to win it. As difficult as it is.
- John Boehner
The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.
- Wade Boggs
Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
- Usain Bolt
This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!
- Bobby Bonilla
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence
- William Shakespeare
As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it.
- Bjorn Borg
You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.
- Bjorn Borg
I wanted to win, even in practice.
- Bjorn Borg
We must take arms each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle can not be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.
- Ray Bradbury
To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
- Ian Botham
To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.
- Ian Botham
And suddenly, in the place of the woman-shape made of shadow, there was something else. Something huge, something ugly. Linay flung up both hands. The thing screamed like a hawk and opened to wings: one white as a death cap, one clotted in shadow. The wings came together and the whole pond shuddered.
Something hit Kate's ear and shoulder and smashed to the deck by her feet. It was a swallow, dead. She could hear them falling all over the pond.
- Erin Bow
To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
- Barbara Boxer
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
- Carl Sandburg
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
- Omar N Bradley
You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.
- Terry Bradshaw
The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
- Tom Brady
Dalinar forced himself to be calm. "Roion, we cannot continue to treat this war as a game."
"All wars are games. The greatest kind, with the pieces lost real lives, the prizes captured making
for real wealth! This is the life for which men exist. To fight, to kill, to win.
- Brandon Sanderson
War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.
- Libba Bray
No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky.
- Wilford Brimley
To win you've got to stay in the game.
- Claude M Bristol
I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2.
- Eric Bristow
My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.
- Poppy Z Brite
I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
- Mel Brooks
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.
- John F Kennedy
It's okay for someone to let you win sometimes, you know,' he said, getting all serious. 'We don't always have to be the losers, Valerie. They may want to make us feel that way, but we're not. Sometimes we get to win, too.
- Jennifer Brown
I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.
- Gordon Brown
There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.
- Les Brown
All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.
- Pat Brown
The key to winning is poise under stress.
- Paul Brown
In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose.
- Sandra Brown
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
- Zig Ziglar
To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.
- Tina Brown
We have got some very big problems confronting us and let us not make any mistake about it, human history in the future is fraught with tragedy... It's only through people making a stand against that tragedy and being doggedly optimistic that we are going to win through. If you look at the plight of the human race it could well tip you into despair, so you have to be very strong.
- Robert James Brown
I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.
- Kobe Bryant
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
- Paul Bryant
It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.
- Paul Bryant
Just a month after the completion of the Declaration of Independence, at a time when he delegates might have been expected to occupy themselves with more pressing concerns -like how they were going to win the war and escape hanging- Congress quite extraordinarily found time to debate business for a motto for the new nation. (Their choice, E Pluribus Unum, "One from Many", was taken from, of all places, a recipe for salad in an early poem by Virgil.)
- Bill Bryson
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
- George Bernard Shaw
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one."
George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)
"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
Churchill's response
- George Bernard Shaw
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- Buddha
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
- Robert Frost
Take heart, sir," Cazaril consoled him. "It is not your destiny today to win a royacy for your son. It is to win an empire for your grandson.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.
- Charles Bukowski
I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.
- Charles Bukowski
Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
- Edward G Bulwerlytton
Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.
- Rick Riordan
On a basketball court, five players were in the middle of an intense game. They wore assortment of jerseys from different American teams, and they all seemed keen to wingrunting and snarling at each other, stealing the ball and pushing.
Oh...and the players were all baboons.
- Rick Riordan
In the world of the superheroes, everything had value, potential, mystery. Any person, thing, or object could be drafted into service in the struggle against darkness and evil - remade as a weapon or a warrior or a superhero. Even a little bee named Michael - after God's own avenging angel - could pitch in to win the battle against wickedness.
- Grant Morrison
All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.
- George W Bush
I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too.
- Laura Bush
I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments
- Albert Einstein
People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. Before you make a statement about someone, get all the information and see everything before you make a judgment.
- Amanda Bynes
And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and, consequently, they do. They always have. She wins because she expects to win. I do not expect what I want, so I dont. And I dont even try.
- Emily Giffin
In short, I have no real faith in my own happiness. And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and consequently, they do. They always have. She wins because ehse expects to win. I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try.
- Emily Giffin
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
- Voltaire
I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how to win and lose. There's a thousand kids outside, you know who to push and who not to push. There's a sixth sense you develop just because it's New York.
- James Caan
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
- Arthur Calwell
Deplorable practices adopted during the last century were repeatedly declared necessary if regrettable in order to win the war. Oddly enough, we've yet to win. You'd think somebody would have asked before this why the regrettable but necessary measures haven't actually produced the promised results.
- Jack Campbell
You can't win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.
- Jack Campbell
I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.
- Eric Cantona
I'm happy with what I've done but it's a challenge to try to win more.
- Jennifer Capriati
To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.
- Jennifer Capriati
I have to win this now, and for all time, or I'll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.
- Orson Scott Card
Buut how to fight with singers, how to win a gift that could only be given freely- those were questions whose answers could not be found.
- Orson Scott Card
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Even if you're doing the national insurance awards, there's still that excitement when you wonder who is going to win, er, best premiums.
- Jimmy Carr
The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him.
- D A Carson
I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.
- Gary Carter
He allowed the world to wind him in the final set of chains, and climbed, once and for all, into the cabinet of mysteries that was the life of an ordinary man.
- Michael Chabon
Must not fight simply to win; no holds barred is not the way; you must win by the rules.
- John Graham Chambers
I lay there, no longer fighting, since my head was spinning too much. And because I wasn't going to win anyway. And because I kind of liked the feeling of sensual captivity, at least by this particular jailer.
- Karen Chance
For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces.
- Michael Chang
The crazy people of the world...shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least.
- Stephen King
Looking back on it, Sloat wasn't sure how he had tolerated Phil Sawyer for as long as he had. His partner had never played to win, not seriously; he had been encumbered by sentimental notions of loyalty and honor, corrupted by the stuff you told kids to get them halfway civilized before you finally tore the blindfold off their eyes.
- Stephen King
I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomorrow, a little better still. This is just a part of your life, and it's over. It would have been better to win, but either way, it's over. Life will go on.
- Stephen King
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
- Marian Wright Edelman
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
- Agatha Christie
But without humans, the wild would take over. It would only take a hundred years or so for nature to win again.
- Lucy Christopher
The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.
- Tom Clancy
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
- Arthur Rimbaud
So I'm going to tell you, it's going to be a good year. There are good players all over this country, and it is our job as a scouting department to find them, draft them, sign them, develop them, and help us to continue to win championships. So it's going to be a good year.
- Roy Clark
For so long I wanted to win the gold medal.Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.
- Bryan Clay
We are running out of time. We need a strategy to win in Iraq or an exit strategy to leave.
- Max Cleland
I would love to do well one last time in Melbourne and my dream would be to win Wimbledon and play in the London Olympics.
- Kim Clijsters
Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
- Brian Clough
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
- Sun Tzu
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
- Sun Tzu
I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
- Leonard Cohen
jaded, adj.
In the end, we both want the right thing to happen, the right person to win, the right idea to prevail. We have no faith that it will, but still we want it. Neither of us has given up on anything.
- David Levithan
I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line.
- David Levithan
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely.
- Hunter S Thompson
Humans! They lived in the world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and anzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time..
- Terry Pratchett
[...] Lachlain said, "Before you go, I wanted to pass on some advice. Emma told me that to win your mate, you have to accept Regin. The two are thick as thieves. Always have been. Since they were children."
"So calling Regin a glowing bluidy freak dinna help my cause? On top of the lie? Christ, I've bollixed this up.
- Kresley Cole
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
- Robert Collier
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
- Confucius
I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.
- Jennifer Connelly
I hate to lose more than I love to win.
- Jimmy Connors
I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.
- Jack K Cooke
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