Quotes of: Winning Keyword

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.

Stuart Symington

It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.

Walter Russell Mead

... I succeeded at math, at least by the usual evaluation criteria: grades. Yet while I might have earned top marks in geometry and algebra, I was merely following memorized rules, plugging in numbers and dutifully crunching out answers by rote, with...

The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a doubt, or raised a question, only to be told by their family, church, friends, or tribe: "We don't discuss those t...

Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

A computer search would have given me a list of pertinent cases, but without that I had to read everything. That is harder by far, but you end up learning a lot more. I was forced to remember cases because making copies of everything was too expensiv...

Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption

. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us. Instead we show up possessing already a highly refined and individuated soul. Another way of thinking of it is: We're not born with unlimited choices...

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

[last title cards] Title card: Two years later Jim Braddock put his title on the line against Joe Louis. Jim knocked him down in the first round though Louis went on to win the bout. Joe Louis would always call Jim Braddock the most courageous man he...

Cinderella Man

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries unite!

The Communist Manifesto

Stay home and the crooks win. They get the night, by default and concession, the night which should rightly belong to all of us.

Double Trouble

War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.

Deathless

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

Embassytown

Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.

Eleanor & Park

The greatest moments in life are the ones right in front of you.

Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World

The greatest moments are right in front of you.

Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World

To fight with demons, your intent must be pure. And even then, there's no guarantee you'll win.

Ghost of a Chance

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill

The Art of War

He wins his battles by making no mistakes. Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

The Art of War

Watch people when they win, and you will learn something. But watch them when they lose, and you will learn even more.

Bound Feet & Western Dress

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

The Bell Jar

Let's play Russian roulette. If you win, I give you a Colombian necktie.

Better to be able to love than to be loveable