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Quotes About Victory

It is hard for one man to beat an army," Danil said. "But not impossible," Baradar answered.
~ Jameson Currier
We shall never surrender," Churchill had said.
~ Jan Moran
I grow weary of barely surviving," Ivy said.
~ Jan Moran
And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
~ Jane Austen
My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.
~ Jane Austen
There is exquisite pleasure in subduing an insolent spirit, in making a person pre-determined to dislike, acknowledge one's superiority.
~ Jane Austen
In that moment, as they stood smiling at one another, Charlotte was conscious of several contradictory sensations, of which the chief were these: annoyance with herself for being incapable of governing her own actions, satisfaction that Sidney had won this very minor victory over her, amusement, embarrassment - an odd something between perturbation and pleasure - and above all else, a flutter of joyful spirits which made her feel she had strayed somehow into a most unfamiliar world.
~ Jane Austen
El alma se le fue a los pies y apenas podía sostenerse; pero era obligatoriamente necesario sobreponerse, y luchó con tanta decisión contra la congoja de su espíritu que el éxito fue rápido y, por el momento, completo.
~ Jane Austen
Without patience I could never have succeeded.
~ Jane Goodall
If you shoot a marble outside the circle, you get a point," Mr. D explained. "The player with the most points wins. I used to be pretty good.
~ Jane O'Connor
I need mood music. I gotta get myself ready to kick butt. Lula - High Five
~ Janet Evanovich
Life is about survival of the fittest, and Jersey is producing the master race.
~ Janet Evanovich
My mother was about three feet from Pooka. She threw herself forward, grabbed hold of his shirt, and they both went down to the ground. They rolled around a little and by the time I reached them, my mother was on top, punching Pooka in the face. "She's beating the crap out of him," Lula said. "Way to go, Mrs. P.
~ Janet Evanovich
Whatever the other team does best, that's what you have to do better.
~ Janet Evanovich
Congratulations. You caught yourself a Munchkin.
~ Janet Evanovich
but I'm a Jersey girl. And Jersey girls always get their man.
~ Janet Evanovich
came out alive," Kate said.
~ Janet Evanovich
It is only by a great effort that we rouse ourselves to act, to fight, to struggle, to be heard above the wind, to crush flowers as we walk.
~ Janet Malcolm
Prayer had worked.
~ Janette Oke
It's a different thing when you play on a team that has to win, that doesn't consider it a good year unless you win the championship.
~ Manu Ginobili
Tournament football is unlike anything else. The campaign can be great, but a finals is a different challenge.
~ Chris Coleman
I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
~ Ty Cobb
Unlike Hezbollah, Israel's more modest aim is to survive, and that it has done.
~ Mark Helprin
Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.
~ Eric Alterman