Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.
Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.
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.
I was an all-around player - if I was just a scorer, there's no way the Hawks would have won 50 games four years in a row.
It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won.
I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced and I know I would have won gold.
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.
The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.
Individually, we've taken the world on and won; together, we must take on the challenge of creating a new, peaceful, humane and competitive nation and prevail.
The only way anyone ever won a war, is to make the enemy hurt so bad that he can't stand it any more. ... George S. Patton
I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.
But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts.
The Devil fights from behind barricades of linguistic complexity, but the war of words will be won by those armed only with simplistic truths
I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.
The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.
There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.
Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.
Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world.
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.
There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative.
