Won Quotes - page 3

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. (John Boyd Orr)
I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won. View quote
Barbara Castle
The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war. View quote
Mike Lee (U.S. politician)
I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime. View quote
O. J. Simpson
When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud. View quote
Alexis Arguello
Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic. View quote
Brenda Blethyn
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease. View quote
Constance Baker Motley
My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'. View quote
Haile Gebrselassie
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me. View quote
Ida Tarbell
Never live with someone that won the Heisman. View quote
Kato Kaelin
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too. (Louise Brown)
Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side. View quote
Maria Menounos
We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right. View quote
Norman Lear
The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest. View quote
Oliver Tambo
I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won. View quote
Patty Hearst
Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won. View quote
Sherrod Brown
2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series! View quote
Thomas Menino
I want to do roles that are fun and challenging and I want to try different things. I don't want to keep doing Monster's Ball over and over and over again. I want to keep doing my career the way that I was doing it before I won the Oscar. View quote
Halle Berry
Most games are lost, not won. View quote
Casey Stengel
We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood.... So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe. View quote
Robert Mugabe
It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle. (Georgy Zhukov)
The world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered at. If powerful oil trusts no longer despoil and humiliate our country it is not because these predators have become human, but because we have won a hard-fought battle which has been going on since the beginning of the century. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
The problem was, I enjoyed Question Period too much and loved the challenge it provided. Far from being a dreaded burden, it had become an exciting part of my life; opposition members attacked me, I fought back, I won or lost or held them to draw, and the next day we did it all over again. View quote
Jean Chrétien
Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games. View quote
Pelé
In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the lowest. I'm a women who is a lawyer, who is a professor at a university, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, I cook. And even when I'm about to go to prison, one of the first things I do is to make enough food and put it in the fridge for my family. View quote
Shirin Ebadi