Leo resisted the urge to throw a grenade in Frank's face. "I suppose I should know who Pelops was?" "He was a prince, won his wife in a chariot race. Supposedly he started the Olympic games in honor of that." Hazel sniffed. "How romantic. 'Nice wife ...
It means that your birth, with all your particulars, is a wildly improbable event, and hence precious. You won the sweepstakes by being born at all. Think of all the wallflower sperm and egg cells. You made it, buddy. Whew! What a staggering wonder! ...
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whe...
Most games are lost, not won.
A game is not won until it is lost.
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
I think AIDS can be won. I think we can win this fight. It is winnable. But it means behavior change.
For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.
The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won.
I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
The Battle of Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe
I won the family lottery. I come from the best family in the world.
Great things are won by great dangers.
When I was younger, I won a radio at a church raffle.
Casey was the better team and the better team won.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
I have written movies that won prizes at Cannes and Venice.
I Have Fought the Good Fight and Won
he saw in Populism the first glimmerings of some of the great intellectual upheavals of the twentieth century—naturalism, muckraking, and hard-hitting social satire—which would eventually topple the genteel tradition of the nineteenth century. In...
And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which the battle is won and the need to continue the struggle over with. After all, even when you succeed in obtaining a measure of...
