Hard Won Quotes
31 quotes by 30 authors
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Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.
— Max Baucus
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This is a long-delayed, hard-won, and badly needed victory for millions of women.
— Patty Murray
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We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and hard-won…
— Bernard Lown
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How can we not believe in the greatness of America? How can we not do what is right and needed to preserve this last best…
— Ronald Reagan
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Happiness was my choice, and though it is hard-won, I am the only person who can stand in the way of it.
— Stephanie Nielson
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War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.
— Aminatta Forna
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As we drifted to earth I sat up on the glass roof of the capsule, watching the beauty of the golden dawn as it broke…
— Richard Branson
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I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
— David Antin
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A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods rightly and beneficially.…
— Timothy Keller
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I love advertising because I love lying. I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality,…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to…
— Martin Filler
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Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.
— Terry Goodkind
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We Aryans are those of European descent who are racially conscious and who have committed our lives to our people's survival and evolutionary advancement. We…
— David Duke
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Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by…
— A.C. Grayling
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Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure…
— Guy Verhofstadt
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Most of us encounter a great deal more Mystery than we are willing to experience. Sometimes knowing life requires us to suspend disbelief, to recognize…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And,…
— Nick Clooney
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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…
— Jean Chretien
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We know the product is going to stink. We know that because we live in the world, and we know that everything stinks. We all…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us…
— Philip Gulley
Who Wrote These Hard Won Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 31 Hard Won Quotes, led by these top contributors: