Quotes About Victory

With four minutes to go and South Sudan up by one, Benjie Boone bounced off a screen at the top of the key and pulled up wide open from 25 feet.

everyone felt some measure of relief. Drug trafficking was dealt a severe blow, though

Who hopes still constantly with patience shall obtain victory in their pretense.

She took the castle and hanged the captain from the walls of the battlements.

unsurpassing beauty or quality, for hope and for ultimate triumph.

The baby, when he finally arrived, was in excellent health. Mary was exhausted but triumphant.

A set-piece battle would almost inevitably end in a crushing defeat for the Scots.

another the French triumph over the Spanish and papal forces at the battle of Ravenna in 1512.

She had great success in raising a royal army.

outnumbering her opponents by five to one.

All seemed to be over when Bothwell's mainmast was shot away by a cannonball

in 1513, at least the Scots had been scythed down in hand-to-hand combat during a set-piece battle.

now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me; Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD. —Psalm 27:6

Have peace and know that the Lord will fight for you. The Lord's ways are not our ways, but in the end, He will bless you in such a manner that only He can get the glory, for all will know that it is the Lord who blesses you.

What a splendid little war!

Now normally I consider nostalgia to be a toxic impulse. It is the twinned, yearning delusion that (a) the past was better (it wasn't) and (b) it can be recaptured (it can't) that leads at best to bad art, movie versions of old TV shows, and sad dads watching Fox News. At worst it leads to revisionist, extremist politics, fundamentalist terrorism, and the victory—in Appalachia in particular—of a narcissist Manhattan cartoon maybe-millionaire

I told him there is no Words with Friends in this life: there is only Scrabble, with enemies.

The struggle is lost from the beginning, long before the victorious party or army conquers state power and 'betrays' its promises. It is lost once power itself seeps into the struggle, once the logic of power becomes the logic of the revolutionary process, once the negative of refusal is converted into the positive of power-building.

Many otherwise decent men and women could find no other solution. They are willing to degrade themselves to their basest levels to prevent the traditional laborer from rising in status or, to put it bluntly, from "winning," even though what he wins has been rightfully his from the moment he was born into the human race. I

You can't get around what's right, though, he said. When we stop loving them, that's when they win.

He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.

Some days you get the bear...

Patton loved war; Monty loved himself.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.