Won Quotes

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

Winning in Monaco is always special. That track has always been good to me. I won there in Formula 3000, battled for the victory with Williams in 2006 and now I've won two of the last three grands prix there.

One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.

You'll know the green revolution has been won when the word 'green' disappears.

The moments we have behind us, you won't be able to see again. We're only responsible for what we live in right now.

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.

I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.

My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.

When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.

I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.

I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The Last Good Time'. I wrote, produced and directed it, but I wasn't in it.

I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.

You won't catch me giving clear lectures.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.

It doesn't mean that I won't be sexy or hip or anything like that.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em - that's how you write a song. And I haven't been able to do that over here 'cause I'm so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music.

People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.