Guns can turn you into an insider even if you're an outsider by nature, recruiting you into a loose fraternity of people who feel embattled and defensive and are primally eager to win allies.
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
You can win, it'll just cost you some money.
I am prepared to work hard enough to win. It's basically up to me.
Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
I'm fully confident that I will win the jackpot - so much so that I've already made a list of all the charities I will contribute to.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one story, not bad. Now, how do you win it? Jurors are wading through skyscrapers of paper, looking for one story that stands out.
I practice martial arts not to win over other people but to win over my own heart.
Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.
You hope for the best, but it's really OK if you don't win. They say it's just nice to be nominated, and it really is.
There is no God-given right to victory on the battlefield. You win that through the skill and the devotion, the valor and the ferocity of your troops.
The indisputable fact is that nutritional science is the most powerful weapon available to win the war on cancer.
I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.
While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.
As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.
I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue.
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.
The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications.
The best gift I could give my father would be to represent India in the Olympics. If I can do that in 2016, and even win a medal, it will be fantastic.
I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.
I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.
There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow as a journalist you know there are Pulitzers out there and you can work hard and get one. To win it for Fiction seems unbelievable.
The best thing for the fans is having a team with a chance to win. That's what everyone wants.
The O. Henry has become lingua franca among writers for saying, 'That guy can write a story.' It's prestigious, respected, coveted, dreamed about. It's very satisfying to be included in this group of writers. Here's a koan: Could O. Henry win an O. Henry?
No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don't complain about things - and I'd just like to be with them when things are good, and hopefully we can win a pennant together.
If you're not successful at a certain weight, it rarely has anything to do with gaining or losing 10 pounds. It's something inside of you that you need to fix in order to win. It rarely has anything to do with cutting 10 pounds.
It's not the great stars that win; it's the great teams that win. It's the teams that subjugate their ego to the team and put the team first.
You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.
The Web's core vision and value is to be platform independent. Microsoft has no right to think it can win a tool that is for the people, of the people, and ultimately - by the people.
I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.
