Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Taft Benson

I say to you with all the fervor of my soul that God intended men to be free. Rebellion against tyranny is a righteous cause. It is an enormous evil for any man to be enslaved to any system contrary to his own will. For that reason men, 200 years ago, pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood - human blood - will win it back.

Erykah Badu

I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy.

Flavia Pennetta

Twenty days ago my physio asked me if I was if I never think that I can win a Grand Slam or be in final of Grand Slam, and I said no.

Fidel Castro

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.

Cate Blanchett

I think probably winning these things [an Oscar] can be a bit of a curse depending on who you are and how you think. But I haven't been on a journey to get anywhere in particular, so that hasn't changed. And my criteria for choosing projects hasn't changed.

George Eliot

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

That's important. We want to be a winning franchise, and to do that, first you've got to have a winning season.

That's more what we should be about than winning or losing.

Jared Jordan

It's horrible. We had an eight-game win streak going. We were all high and happy and everything is good. It's kind of a reality check. We have to get back and start working again. ... We just didn't bring it tonight.

Esther Williams

We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.

Ernest Bramah

At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude - a universal cry of execration, not greatly dissimilar from that which may be frequently heard in the crowded Temple of Impartiality when the one whose duty it is to take up, at a venture, the folded papers, announces that the sublime Emperor, or some mandarin of exalted rank, has been so fortunate as to hold the winning number in the Annual State Lottery.

Jason Giambi

Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It's usually best to put them over the fence.

Caroline Wozniacki

As long as I win I'm doing something right.

Caroline Wozniacki

I love winning. I don't like losing.

Carly Patterson

Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.

Carmelo Anthony

I want to win the game. I dont worry about taking over the game unless I have to.

Carmelo Anthony

I want to win. I don't care about the money,

Carmelo Anthony

At this point in my career I'm not concerned about the money, it's about winning. Nothing else even matters.

Evan Wolfson

Courts should always do the right thing. But if winning were as simple as making a good argument and filing a good brief, then we would have won the freedom to marry 40 years ago. We must put the legal work next to the public education work next to the legislative work next to the organizing work, and that's what's brought us so far.

Mike Richter

Look at it this way: if winning wasn't so hard, it wouldn't feel so good.

Mike Quade

No matter what the situation, winning takes care of a lot of stuff. Things are never perfect, even when you win. But it does make for a lot better environment, for sure.

Mika

In the stock market, when you are right, you make a little money; when you are wrong, you learn a lot of lessons, so you always win!

Kurt Russell

I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.

Hannah Kearney

I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

Hank Haney

To have the opportunity to work with Tiger Woods was just so awesome. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the challenge. I enjoyed the good parts where he was winning. And I enjoyed the challenge to help him get better. But six years was enough.

Frank Zappa

Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?

Fred Rogers

Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.

George H. W. Bush

I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.

Harold Brodkey

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

Haile Gebrselassie

What is important is to win.

Haile Gebrselassie

I know what I want when I start a marathon: to win! But what do you want? Make sure you're clear in advance and don't go out too fast.

Haile Gebrselassie

Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.