Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesse Ventura

I have an idea about voting, how about on every ballot we include "None of the above". People may laugh at that, but what that is, it is a vote of no confidence in your government and I'm willing to bet that in some elections, 'None of the Above' would win. Imagine if you won the election but lost to 'None of the Above'. Wouldn't that make you re-think your positions?

Howard Stern

Don't let the government win.

Honore de Balzac

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

Ice T

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

Ice Cube

A good movie is a movie that you could see over and over again, not a movie that wins a Oscar, or a movie that makes a lot of money. It's a movie that you personally can watch over and over again. That, to me, is a measure of a good movie.

Jack Osbourne

Just know this, if that day does come where I do win this mirrorball, know that I didn't just win it for me, but I won it for all of us with MS.

James Frey

A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen from over ten thousand entries, was the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.

Hugh Laurie

Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.

Hugh Jackman

I'm quite a competitive person, so I do quite like to win.

Hugh Jackman

What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.

Homer

You don't win friends with salad.

Homer

Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.

Homer

But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was, when you were alive, we Argives/ honored you as a god, and now down here, I see/ You Lord it over the dead in all your power./ So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.’ I reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting,/ ‘No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!/ By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man--/ Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breathless dead.

Homer

What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?

Homer

So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to impress us with his looks but a god can crown his words with beauty, charm, and men look on with delight when he speaks out. Never faltering, filled with winning self-control, he shines forth at assembly grounds and people gaze at him like a god when he walks through the streets. Another man may look like a deathless one on high but there's not a bit of grace to crown his words. Just like you, my fine, handsome friend.

Gloria Steinem

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

Gloria Steinem

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

Giorgio Napolitano

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.

Harry S Truman

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.

Harry S Truman

If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-d iscipline.

J. Paul Getty

Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.

J. K. Rowling

In the end, love wins. It does win. We know it wins. When a person dies, love isn’t turned off like a faucet. It is an amazingly resilient part of us.

J. K. Rowling

Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch first.

Ivan Lendl

Not winning at Wimbledon is not going to bother me forever.

Ivan Lendl

Once you win, you have no doubt that you can win. So you have gone through it once, and you can do it again.

H. L. Mencken

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.

H. L. Mencken

It seems to me that society usually wins. There are, to be sure, free spirits in the world, but their freedom, in the last analysis, is not much greater than that of a canary in a cage. They may leap from perch to perch; they may bathe and guzzle at their will; they may flap their wings and sing. But they are still in the cage, and soon or late it conquers them.

Guillermo del Toro

When I see a short schedule, my question to the director is, are you really comfortable with this, or are you doing it to be a good boy? At the end, you only win the medal if the film is good, you don't win a medal if the movie is on time.

Greg LeMond

I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.

Greg LeMond

When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.

Gilbert Parker

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.