Can 27t Win Quotes

All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive ... because I'm a woman ... even because I'm a lesbian. ~ Tammy Baldwin

It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game. ~ Elizabeth Warren

If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record. ~ John McKeithen

I have two basic rules about winning in trading as well as in life: 1. If you don't bet, you can't win. 2. If you lose all your chips, you can't bet. ~ Larry Hite

When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation. Instead of trying to refute the other side, they label their opponents' position evil, attribute sinister motives to its adherents, and charge that its proponents are encouraging violence. ~ Don Feder

We can't win friends with a scowling face and an upbraiding voice. ~ Dale Carnegie

I think there's something remarkable happening here that nobody is talking about. They're skirting the issue. For the longest time, the Republican Party has told us that they can't win with just Republican votes. And that's why they support amnesty. That's why they support the Democrats on many of their issues to go out and get Hispanics or other minorities. ~ Rush Limbaugh

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you. ~ Dr. Seuss

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it. ~ Dale Carnegie

You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference. ~ Lou Holtz

In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election ~ P. J. O'Rourke

You can't win together if you don't work together. ~ Nick Saban

If Hillary can't win the nomination - and it's clearly very, very hard for her - she's basically a stalking horse for McCain. She's preparing the demographic ground for McCain, by getting white working-class Democrats used to (if you will) not voting for Obama. ~ Rich Lowry

You can't win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose. ~ Jack Campbell

That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then ... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win. ~ Liz Phair

Only because I prefer a positive to a negative. In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all. ~ George Orwell

You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you. ~ Yogi Berra

You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose ~ Jon Bon Jovi

Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was ... If you can't accept losing, you can't win. ~ Vince Lombardi

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase. ~ Dick Morris

Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives. ~ James C. Collins

You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win. ~ Natalie Imbruglia

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win. ~ Douglas Adams

You can't win by being more average than average. ~ Seth Godin

I'm tired of the 'can't win against evil' way. I'm sorry, you cannot. They'll run you over. So that is my one big passion. 'Ten Stupid Things People Do to Let Evil Win' - that will be my next passion book. I am angry. ~ Laura Schlessinger

You can't win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples! ~ Kevin Spacey

Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time. ~ Lionel Messi

[Sharron Angle] said, 'I can't win without you getting out of the race.' But I said I couldn't. I'm going to beat Harry Reid. ~ Scott Ashjian

You cant win unless you learn how to lose. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We really can't change the world. We really can't change other people! The best we can do is to start a few thinking here and there. The best way to do this, if we are sincere, is to change ourselves! ~ Ammon Hennacy

Most people who work with me can tell you I'm a bit of a pessimist about business stuff. Not because I don't believe in what I'm doing, I just don't like feeling presumptuous. Like, 'This is what's going to happen!' Honestly, I don't know what will happen. ~ Ben Rector

If you believe within your soul, just hold on tight and don't let go! You can make it, make it happen ~ Mariah Carey

I don't believe you can say 'forever'; I don't believe it exists. ~ Vanessa Paradis

If you don't trust anyone, they can't let you down. ~ Simon R. Green

When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's. ~ Timothy Keller

Young people, don't get the idea that you have an artistic temperament which must be humored. Don't believe you cannot do good work unless you feel in tile mood for it. That is all nonsense. I frequently have to force myself to make a start in the morning; but after a short while I find I can work. Only hard and regular work will bring success. ~ Howard Pyle

I don't want to lose you. I'm in love with you Blaire. I've never wanted anything or anyone the way I want you. I can't imagine my world now without you in it. ~ Abbi Glines

In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie. ~ Megan Chance

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything. ~ Louis Kronenberger

I know I can't change the past, but I change the future. I can change, too. And I will. ~ Nicholas Sparks

Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from. ~ Chuck Mangione

In charity, every little bit works. You can't change the world. You can't do everything. But you sure try to bring awareness and do as much as you can. ~ Naomi Campbell

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. ~ Clare Boothe Luce

Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up. ~ Tori Amos

They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath. ~ William Westmoreland

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush. ~ Sylvester Stallone

I'm no use to anybody,' I say. 'I'm a cérébrale, can't you see that?'
Thinking how funny a book would be, called 'Just a Cérébrale or You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming'. Only, of course, to be accepted as authentic, to carry any conviction, it would have to be written by a man. What a pity, what a pity! ~ Jean Rhys

God dealt with our whole situation on the cross; there is nothing left for you to settle. Just say to Him, Lord, I cannot forgive and I will no longer try to do it; but I trust that You in me will do it. I can't forgive and love; but I trust that You will forgive and love in my place and that You will do these things in me. ~ Corrie Ten Boom

Have I ever written anything that has really changed something? What I believe is that you can't change anything without using art. I believe that the drops wear away the stone. I try to be part of that army. ~ Henning Mankell

It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff. ~ John Darnielle

The first element of change is awareness. You can't change something unless you know it exists. ~ T. Harv Eker

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. ~ C.S. Lewis

Time doesn't exist. It doesn't exist in any way. It's more subjective than real. Time doesn't exist. I believe in memory. Memory is the real inspiration. Memory creates time. Memory is pure power. Pure power and pure strength, and pure utilization of space and time (if time is something we can really ever label). But I don't believe in time itself. ~ Arman

MySpace is a great way to keep in touch with friends who you don't care enough about to actually have a conversation with, why bother calling to say "how are you," when you can just surf their page and post an mpeg of a guy farting on his cat. ~ David Spade

I don't believe in bad. I believe in relativity. The only way we can know what we call good is if there's also something we call bad. ~ Alanis Morissette

I don't care what your politics are, but I do suggest you pay attention to the next election and go out and vote. It doesn't matter; you can believe whatever you want to believe, but this is the time everybody should be paying a lot of attention. ~ Andrew McMahon

At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young woman who has suffered in silence for so long, this good woman who refuse to believe she's good, for only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves. ~ Paul Auster

You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you. ~ Terry Pratchett

You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You can't change it, you just become passive in front of it. Even if we live in a godless universe, there are paths set, there are trajectories, like bumper cars just pulling those trajectories, colliding. ~ Tommy McCarthy

What's exciting about being an artist, still, and what I'm really finding is awesome is that you can do it until you drop. I don't care how many lines I have on my face - I'll keep doing it! ~ Nikki Sixx

If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. ~ Anita Roddick

You can no more trust Jesus and not intend to obey him than you could trust your doctor and your auto mechanic and not intend to follow their advice. If you don't intend to follow their advice, you simply don't trust them. Period. ~ Dallas Willard

You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret. ~ Al Franken

I don't believe in publishers who wish to butter their bannocks on both sides while they'll hardly allow an author to smell treacle. I consider they are too grabby altogether and like Methodists they love to keep the Sabbath and everything else they can lay hands upon. ~ Amanda McKittrick Ros

Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves. ~ Robin Williams

When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy ~ Pope Francis

Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves. ~ Joe Louis

I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can. ~ Franz Kafka

I'm a walking zombie and I think I'm going to be like that for a while. ~ Tiffani Thiessen

The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored. ~ Penn Jillette

Look, girls don't care how many push-ups you can do. They just want to get high and wear flowers in their hair. Maybe steal a car. ~ Donald Ray Pollock

And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right. ~ Tamora Pierce