Quotes About Victory

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men

Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe!

the whole idea of stealing fantastically dangerous weapons presents the would-be perp with inherent dangers and contradictions: When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins. Hiro

It's time to go, Vitaly says. You're telling me it's time to go? I've been waiting for you to wake up for an hour. As Hiro approaches, Vitaly watches his sword uncertainly. Vitaly's eyes are dry and red, and on his lower lip he is sporting a chancre the size of a tangerine. Did you win your sword fight? Of course I won the fucking sword fight, Hiro says. I'm the greatest sword fighter in the world. And you wrote the software. Yeah. That, too, Hiro says.

Punjab, the more certain he became that simple and obvious would defeat complicated and clever

The barriers placed in his path (working his way through the Cryptonomicon, breaking the Nipponese Air Force Meteorological Code, breaking the Coral naval attache machine cipher, breaking Unnamed Nipponese Army Water Transport Code 3A, breaking the Greater East Asia Ministry Code) present about as much resistance as successive decks of a worm-eaten wooden frigate.

Neal Stephenson

I made that test my bitch.

I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.

What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to live. That's a triumph.

I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.

I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words. Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.

God is on the side of the winner.

To win the game was to leave

I am no longer a product of my past, I am a product of the work of Christ on the cross.

Many Christians in the Western church attempt to live as though the devil does not exist, having

Well, we all have our good days. That one bad night can ruin.

When you cheat at poker, life, or taxes, you've taken the honor and fun out of winning, and ultimately you've cheated yourself out of the finest pleasure in life: beating the other guy fair and square. That's what I was taught in school.

Second place is just the first loser.

Nelson DeMille

We weren't going to win the war on terrorism until we won the war of the words.