Won Quotes - page 2

The past has lost, as it always loses; the future has won, as it always wins. (Lin Carter)

For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

Luise Rainer

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

Samuel P. Huntington

Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation.

Coretta Scott King

Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.

Oliver Goldsmith

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

Bob Woodward

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

Yogi Berra

Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost.

William Butler Yeats

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

Paul Newman

The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice. (Denis Diderot)

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

Eric Hoffer

The tempest was terrible and separated me from my other vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look forward to but death. Each was certain the others had been destroyed. What man ever born, not excepting Job, who would not have died of despair, when in such weather seeking safety for my son, my brother, shipmates, and myself, we were forbidden access to the land and the harbors which I, by God's will and sweating blood, had won for Spain.

Christopher Columbus

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Margaret Thatcher

Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

Walter Scott

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Winston Churchill

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

Winston Churchill

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Eleanor Roosevelt

She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won.

George Meredith

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

Laozi

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. (M. Scott Peck)

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

Salvatore Quasimodo

When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?

Hermann Maier

I won a great giant slalom in Japan last week, and it gave me momentum for this final part of the season.

Hermann Maier

Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.

Brian Selznick

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