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Quotes About Victory

Death is a beautiful woman, with wings and one breast almost bare; or is that Victory? I can't remember. They
~ Margaret Atwood
For a whole month they'd had to play Barbarian Stomp (See If You Can Change History!). One side had the cities and the riches and the other side had the hordes, and – usually but not always – the most viciousness. Either the barbarians stomped the cities or else they got stomped, but you had to start out with the historical disposition of energies and go on from there.
~ Margaret Atwood
That was the trouble with Blood and Roses: it was easier to remember the Blood stuff. The other trouble was that the Blood player usually won, but winning meant you inherited a wasteland.
~ Margaret Atwood
Rome versus the Visigoths, Ancient Egypt versus the Hyksos, Aztecs versus the Spaniards.
~ Margaret Atwood
That was the trouble with Blood and Roses: it was easier to remember the Blood stuff. The other trouble was that the Blood player usually won, but winning meant you inherited a wasteland. This
~ Margaret Atwood
Gaul was brought to shame by Caesar; By King Nicomedes, he. Here comes Caesar, wreathed in triumph For his Gallic victory! Nicomedes wears no laurels, Though the greatest of the three.
~ Margaret George
Los romanos solían levantar columnas y arcos de la victoria en honor a la gloria del emperador y del Estado.
~ Margaret MacMillan
Margaret Mayhew
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I wonder if they know they are fighting for a cause that was lost the minute the first shot as fired.
~ Margaret Mitchell
They burned you," she [Scarlett] thought, "and they laid you flat. But they didn't lick you. They couldn't lick you. You'll grow back just as big and sassy as you used to be!
~ Margaret Mitchell
When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.
~ Howard Zinn
This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
~ Charles Kettering
Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.
~ Bear Bryant
She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again. The Children of Ankh
~ Kim Cormack
We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.
~ Ruud van Nistelrooy
My countrymen, I am wholeheartedly thankful to you today for proving that change isn't coming but it has ALREADY COME!
~ Imran Khan
We win some, we lose some, but there is always some.
~ Anthony Liccione
When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
~ George Canning
Recognize success with thanksgiving and build more success on that.
~ Emmet Fox
Best smiles come after the toughest time.
~ Anonymous
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
~ Nelson Mandela
Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Even if there comes a time when you do not hear my voice, do not give up. Do not despair. Do not stop fighting for your freedom until you have victory!
~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.
~ Joe Girard