And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.
Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.
When I won the Derby on Never Say Die I went home and cut the lawn. I haven't cut the lawn since.
The only meaningful statistic is number of games won.
The first gold medal we had won for the Soviet Union. This one we won for each other.
My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for The Social Network.
Crushing defeat for Great Britain #Euref. History will show no one won today.
Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.
Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
We have not won the battle against drug trafficking.
We played a whole season unbeaten but you did not see me every week jumping on the tables. Once it's over it's over and you do in the next one as well as you can. Plenty of managers who have won the Champions League will not be considered great managers.
Messi is an irreplaceable player, today if he was here we would have won 5-0 but he was not and we had to play another in his place.
Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down. . . and won.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
I went to the Independent Spirit Awards and won.
We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.
A race isn't won until it's over.
I noticed - and this is one of the people don't understand of Tony [Abbot] - he grew. To me he grew as opposition leader. He come in - he wasn't really good at the beginning when he was opposition leader. He won the confidence of the Australian people and got the job as Prime Minister. He grew in Indigenous affairs. To me, we just totally disagreed in it, but now we're very much one on one on it.