Curtis, where was that enthusiasm in the match? You might have won.
I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My lofty name.
I have won every argument I ever had with myself.
The game cannot be won, only played.
Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.
Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
The mechanical mind has a passion for control - of everything except itself. Beyond the control it has won over the forces of nature it would now win control over the forces of society of stating the problem and producing the solution, with social machinery to correspond.
I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.
As a kid I watched the Academy Awards on television and always wanted one - or several - like one of my favorite directions, John Ford. He won six. On the other hand, Orson Welles, who's on the top of my list, didn't win any. Alfred Hitchcock didn't win any. Howard Hawks didn't win any.
Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.
I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award.
Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.
I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.
By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.
She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won.
I never learned anything from a match that I won.
The Cold War was a war, and we won it.