Quotes About Victory

Es necesario que la naturaleza vencida muera sobre el campo de batalla, es preciso que la realidad suceda al sueño, y entonces es el sueño el que domina absolutamente, y la vida se hace sueño y el sueño se hace vida.

Le bonheur est comme ces palais des îles enchantées dont les dragons gardent les portes. Il faut combattre pour le conquérir

E sei que do fundo do abismo onde os lançaram os seus inimigos se ergueram com tanto vigor e glória que dominaram o seu antigo vencedor e o derrubaram por seu turno.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

at the end of his teeth.

Athos was delighted to find he was going to fight an Englishman. We might say that was his dream.

They would have too easy a conquest over four separate men; whilst four men united make a troop.

The Imperial throne was occupied by Frederic III, who had been rightly named the Peaceful, not for the reason that he had always maintained peace, but because, having constantly been beaten, he had always been forced to make it.

aquella carrera le resultó beneficiosa en el sentido de que a medida que el sudor inundaba su frente su corazón se enfriaba.

War is a distraction: we gain everything by it; we can only lose one thing by it—life—then so much the worse!

It was worth while, truly," added the young man with a melancholy smile, "to make war against the English for ten years, and to die in his bed at last, like everybody else.

Rochelle vertrieben.

Le bonheur est comme ces palais des îles enchantées dont les dragons gardent les portes. Il faut combattre pour le conquérir. Alexandre Dumas, Le comte de Monte-Cristo, chapitre 5

A government which should only be able to crush its enemies upon a field of battle would very soon be destroyed.

That trick's worth a new hat any day, youngster (hence the term hat trick)

You are the first to arrive alive in fifty years. You are a puissant man. Arrival of the fittest is the doctrine of the Holy Darwin. Most scientific.

Life is trouble, brother. You've got to fight for what you want.

This cannot harm you on this day. When you walk, you walk away. When you return, all your enemies will burn.

out from under the far side of the table

Doing this was like wading and then throwing yourself into the lake for the first icy swim, in June. A sickening shock at first, then amazement that you were still moving, lifted up on a stream of steely devotion— calm above the surface of your life, surviving, though the pain of the cold continued to wash into your body.

Resistance is the secret of joy!

there was no sympathy for struggle that ended in defeat. Which meant there was no sympathy for struggle itself—only for "winning.

When we have changed everything we will eat congratulations with our tea.

Some womens can't be beat.