Famous quotes containing the word win:
“The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.”
—George Orwell (19031950)
“Pious Selinda goes to prayers,
If I but ask the favour;
And yet the tender fools in tears,
When she believes Ill leave her.
Would I were free from this restraint,
Or else had hopes to win her;
Would she would make of me a saint,
Or I of her a sinner.”
—William Congreve (16701729)
“The next moment he was showing off with all his mightcuffing boys, pulling hair, making facesin a word, using every art that seemed likely to fascinate a girl and win her applause.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)