Won Quotes

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.

I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest.

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.

The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything.

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.

You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long.

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.

I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.

I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president.

It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I'm sure that he wouldn't like the prospect of it put to him, and I won't even go there with Eminem.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

I feel like I won the Lotto, as far as that show's concerned.

Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.

I mean, you can't walk down the aisle in Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress, it just won't happen - it has to suit the grandeur of that aisle, it's enormous.

All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.

I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece.

If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.