Won Quotes

It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout.

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

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.

I thought we were going to win the game but we won't take the disappointments, we will take the positives.

The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and won't take them.

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.

I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff.

As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Here in Denver, we want to thank Jeremy Jacobs for the way he runs his business. Otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten Ray Bourque and won a Stanley Cup.

I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.

If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won't leave people saying, 'Gee, it could have been better, it could've been this, it could've been that.'

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.

When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.

We won't really know what will happen until it happens.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

If a horse won't eat it, I don't want to play on it.

I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.