What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
Dolly Parton

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
Marianne Williamson

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
Albert Ellis

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.
Rita Rudner

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
Janis Joplin

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
Janis Joplin

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
Harry S. Truman

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
Harry S. Truman

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.
David Ogilvy

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.
Joan Rivers

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
Lee Iacocca

There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.
Johnny Depp

If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.
Aaliyah

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.
Woodrow Wilson

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
Orson Welles

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.
Lenny Bruce

Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.
Phyllis Diller

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
F. Scott Fitzgerald