Famous Quotes & Sayings

Quentin Tarantino

If the film is nominated for awards, and even if it wins them, it doesn't make the movie any better, just as if it's ignored that doesn't make the movie any worse.

Plutarch

It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.

Philip Yancey

I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.

Victor Hugo

Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

Richard Bach

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Richard Bach

Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.

Robert Foster Bennett

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win - win situation.

Robert Fulghum

About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!

Rick Mears

You've got to learn a pace that's fast enough to win, but slow enough to finish.

Richard Trumka

And, you know, money is - the money edge is really dangerous to democracy. Because what you have right now - people have said to me that, look, you'll always be outspent, so how can you ever win?

Richard Marcinko

For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.

Richard Dreyfuss

Tabouli is the best salad, but still, you don't win friends with salad

Thucydides

The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

Thomas S. Monson

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Thomas Sowell

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.

Thomas Sowell

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Robert Mitchum

Sure I was glad to see John Wayne win the Oscar I'm always glad to see the fat lady win the Cadillac on TV, too.

Robert McNamara

What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

Robert H. Schuller

You won't win if you don't begin.

Viswanathan Anand

A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.

Saul Alinsky

The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins

Saul Bellow

But she's a nut, and nuts win.

Sarah Dessen

Macy: “In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.” Wes: “How do you win?” he asked Macy: “That,” I said, “is such a boy question.

Sandra Brown

In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose.

Sandra Bullock

I think most people have that out of body experience when they win the Oscar.

Roseanne Barr

Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama cannot win, and they are put in place to assure a victory by Mitt Romney... this is the plan of all the insurance companies that are owned by Mormon interests. It is unfolding as the Mormon Church planned over the last fifty years.

Roger Moore

I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you've failed at being a good actor. Why not try for the popularity contest?

Roger Ebert

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.

Rod Serling

I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had with the guild, and the few awards I've had, represented to me a far more legitimate concrete achievement than anything.

Robert Lloyd

Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise

Roger Goodell

The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us.

Satchel Paige

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

Sania Mirza

As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or 6 feet long,