Won Quotes

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.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.

I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.

My partner and I won the race, and I threw my hat into the air and bent to pick it up. Everyone started laughin' because I had split the back end of my pants out, and I wasn't wearing shorts.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don't send them to me.

I am grateful to Penske Racing for six very productive years. Together we won a lot of races - 16 in all. I'm proud that we won on a variety of tracks.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters.

You won't see Moonves on Twitter.

If you can't take it, you won't make it.

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.