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Quotes About Victory

And that's my title, now. Master of the Games.
~ Margaret Weis
Il segreto più profondo di Olimpia è racchiuso in quest'unica nota cristallina: lottare è un gioco, vivere è un gioco, morire è un gioco; profitti e perdite non sono che distinzioni passeggere, ma il gioco pretende tutte le nostre forze, e la sorte accetta, come posta, unicamente i nostri cuori.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
I must fight Til I have conquered In myself what causes war
~ Marianne Moore
Para vencer, necesitas a Dios.
~ Marianne Williamson
Il ne faut pas considérer les obstacles comme une réalité immuable. Il faut les affronter et voir s'il est possible de les surmonter.
~ Marina Abramovi?
The man who plays alone never loses.' " Guiliano
~ Mario Puzo
Do not exercise power because it is easy to your hand. And do not get carried away with a certainty of victory when your intellect tells you there is even a hint of tragedy.
~ Mario Puzo
V?riešiem sekss vajadz?gs, lai sagatavotos doties kauj? ar pašapzi?u. Sieviet?m sekss vajadz?gs zaud?juma b?du remd?šanai vai k? da?a no uzvaras gandar?juma.
~ Mario Puzo
The victory of the Corleone Family was complete. During that same twenty-four-hour period Clemenza and Lampone turned loose their regimes and punished the infiltrators of the Corleone domains.
~ Mario Puzo
But sometimes, a boat needs to rock; a boat needs to head straight for the heart of a storm and come out on the other side, weather beaten but with flags flying.
~ Marisa de los Santos
Is man's destiny determined by the vicissitudes of environment or free will? I argue that it is free will, because what we think, what we dwell upon in our heads, whether it be fears or dreams, has a direct effect upon the physical world. The more you think about your downfall, your ruin, the greater the likelihood that it will occur. And conversely, the more one thinks of victory, the more likely one will achieve it.
~ Marisha Pessl
The Latin poet wrote 'Amor vincit omnia,' or 'Love conquers all.' He did not write, 'Love frees all' or 'liberates' all, and therein lies the first degree of our flagrant misunderstanding. Conquer: to defeat, subjugate, massacre, cream, make mincemeat out of. Surely
~ Marisha Pessl
Victory was for those willing to fight and die. Intellectuals could theorize until they sucked their thumbs right off their hands, but in the real world, power still flowed from the barrel of a gun.
~ Mark Bowden
remember the two signatures of modern war: (1) You never win, exactly; you claim victory. (2) Perception is paramount.
~ Mark Bowden
History is not easy," Hue told me. "People are still confused why a huge force like the United States was defeated. But if you don't know your enemy, you will lose every time.
~ Mark Bowden
The name of the game in warfare is to learn faster and act faster than the enemy.
~ Mark Bowden
Vivá Colombia! We have just killed Pablo Escobar!
~ Mark Bowden
All had had close calls. They lived in what combat correspondent Dale Dye would later call "the high weirdness of survival when the odds say you should be stone dead.
~ Mark Bowden
attacks." George Romney, the governor of Michigan and a Republican candidate for president, told newspaper editors, "If what we have seen in the past week is a Viet Cong failure, then I hope they never have a victory."25 On
~ Mark Bowden
The upbeat DHS report was some kind of high-water mark for government gall—a tough record to beat. After sitting back and watching the Cabal do all the work, and nearly succeed, Uncle Sam finally found a role for himself: proclaim victory and then stick a flag in it!
~ Mark Bowden
Never in America's history, though—however many sideburns Bowery barbers shaved or immigrants came ashore—had a losing presidential candidate argued that the whole nation had been swindled. When Abraham Lincoln won the presidency in 1860, his victory so outraged his opposition that an entire region of the country broke away. But in loss Stephen A. Douglas never claimed the election was "rigged.
~ Mark Bowden
And Johnson was a convert. Body counts were the first thing he asked for in regular war briefings. He bragged that his general in Vietnam killed thousands of enemy personnel for every one man he lost:
~ Mark Bowden
So for Ho, the point of war was to force the United States to negotiate.
~ Mark Bowden
You cannot truly win a conflict that you cannot truthfully define.
~ Mark Bowden