Winning Quotes - Page 40

• ...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423

  Patrick Ness

  World, Dare

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• It's not my victory, it's yours and yours and yours. If a gay can win, it means there is hope that the system can work for all minorities if we fight. We've given them hope.

  Harvey Milk

  Mean, Fighting, Gay

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• My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned feelings that prevail in psychology and therefore also in the way we think and feel about our being. Of these conditions none are more tyrannical than the convictions that clamp the mind and heart into positivistic science (geneticism and computerism), economics (bottom-line capitalism), and single-minded faith (fundamentalism).

  James Hillman

  War, Heart, Thinking

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• These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it makes people talk and talk about things that they have no say in ... Would they do it this time? Would they beat the Great Socialist and win the elections? Had they raised enough money of their own, and bribed enough policemen, and bought enough fingerprints of their own, to win? Like eunuchs discussing the Kama Sutra, the voters discuss the elections in Laxmangarh.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, People, Three

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• I stand four-square for reason, and object to what seems to me to be irrationality, whatever the source. If you are on my side in this, I must warn you that the army of the night has the advantage of overwhelming numbers, and, by its very nature, is immune to reason, so that it is entirely unlikely that you and I can win out. We will always remain a tiny and probably hopeless minority, but let us never tire of presenting our view, and of fighting the good fight for the right.

  Isaac Asimov

  Army, Fighting, Night

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• There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Vegas, Fear And Loathing, Sparks

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

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• Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Heart, May, Tables

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.95, Publishdrive

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• A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspirational, Thinking, Victory

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• And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Greatness, Men, Blood

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.57, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Now I realized that me and him were just alike. We were both born to win. And, when we were not winning, it was OK 'cause we were busy planning to win.

  Sister Souljah

  Causes, Planning, Busy

  Sister Souljah (2004). “The Coldest Winter Ever”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Believe, Loss, Men

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• It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy

  Naomi Wolf

  Struggle, Generations, Robert F Kennedy

  Naomi Wolf (2008). “Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• It's easy to win. Anybody can win.

  Philip K. Dick

  Sunset, Easy

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense

  Gregory Maguire

  Lying, Struggle, Men

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.310, Hachette UK

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• I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually, thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... "Come from the South, blow from the wind - poom! - North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen."

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Art, Blow

  "The Joy Luck Club". Book by Amy Tan, 1989.

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• Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back

  Philip Larkin

  Home, Comfort, Lasts

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Whitsun Weddings”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• But without humans, the wild would take over. It would only take a hundred years or so for nature to win again.

  Lucy Christopher

  Years, Hundred, Over It

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.200, Scholastic Inc.

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• So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and giver her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Daughter, Pain

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.252, Penguin

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• But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.

  Orson Scott Card

  Naughty, Risk, Important

  Orson Scott Card (2003). “Shadow Puppets”, p.333, Macmillan

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• Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Team, Fighting, Fate

  Jonathan Haidt (2016). “Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?: from The Righteous Mind”, p.46, Vintage

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• War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.

  Libba Bray

  War, Blood, Law

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• A disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Teaching, Live Your Life, Way

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• You are just a murdered. (Near) (btw this was an epic win on near's part when light spazzed out and went crazy)

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Crazy, Epic, Light

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• Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't.

  Dr. Seuss

  Tvs, Sometimes, Fame

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• I didn’t write that song to try and win you over, or to steal you away from him. I wrote it because I knew I never could.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Song, Writing, Trying

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.231, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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