Quotes About Victory

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Thorbjørn Christiansen

Louie never saw a Chong diner finish his meal.

actress Esther Williams on the wall. The note that Louie had left on the locker was gone, as was the liquor. Among Louie's things, Krey found photographs that Louie had taken inside his plane. In some of them, Louie

From this day forward, until victory or defeat, transfer, discharge, capture, or death took them from it, the vast Pacific would be beneath and around them. Its bottom was already littered with downed warplanes and the ghosts of lost airmen. Every day of this long and ferocious war, more would join them.

With heads thrown back, legs pumping out of sync, Louie and Lash drove for the tape. With just a few yards remaining, Lash began inching up, drawing even. The two runners, legs rubbery with exhaustion, flung themselves past the judges in a finish so close, Louie later said, "you couldn't put a hair between us.

A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.

At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over.

I guess we've both managed to plow through a lot of shit. Well listen, it's been enough to make me nothing short of fanatically determined to have it right once and that's what we're doing, right? - Janis Joplin

There were times, however, when a man had to make a strategic retreat to win the game.

Living well is the best revenge (Margot Radcliffe)

But Sean wasn't going to let her win. Not this time. She'd won the last round, back in Rome, when the wooden door to her room in the slightly cheesy pensione nearly flattened him.

Sometimes the monsters are real . . . Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.

Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

Never argue when you're winning.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought

Well, it's a heck of a lot better than a broken hallelujah. And also, Please, God, I sure could use some grace.

Lauren St. John

Yes! The Yanks had creamed the Red Sox last night.

power over the expedition. It would take Fonseca months, but eventually he would have his revenge on Magellan

saw it: the outlet leading west, just as he prayed it would. Magellan had finally found his strait.

the Armada de Molucca was at last ready to conquer the ocean.