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Quotes About Victory

To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Je ne peux pas m'approprier le champ de neige sur lequel je glisse: il demeure étranger, interdit; mais je me complais dans cet effort meme vers un possession impossible: je l'éprouve comme un triomphe, non comme une défait
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Failure to deal with the presence of sin can often be traced back to spiritual amnesia-forgetting our new, true, real identity. As a believer, I am someone who has been delivered from the dominion of sin and who therefore is free and motivated to fight against the remnants of sin in my heart. You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity-you are in Christ.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
To express it in the bold words of Professor Murray: 'sin may be said to have ruled over him [Christ]'. But he broke its dominion, and because we are united to him he has thereby broken its dominion over us.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles Wrote his grand Å'dipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Once upon a time in America there was a scholar who conducted a one-man revolution and won it. There
~ Sinclair Lewis
Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
For I have promised to do the battle to the uttermost, by faith of my body, while me lasteth the life, and therefore I had liefer to die with honour than to live with shame ; and if it were possible for me to die an hundred times, I had liefer to die oft than yield me to thee; for though I lack weapon, I shall lack no worship, and if thou slay me weaponless that shall be thy shame.
~ Sir Thomas Malory
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
~ Sir Walter Scott
God will raise me up a champion. ~ Rebecca (Ivanhoe)
~ Sir Walter Scott
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
~ sir winston churchill
A relationship is a game of chess.
~ Sophie Kinsella
I'm going to make my life work for me. I'm not going to let it whirl round like a kaleidoscope anymore. It's my life, which means I get to choose how it goes. Even if that means wrestling it to the floor and bashing it on the head and saying: Take that, life!
~ Sophie Kinsella
I´m going to make my life work for me. I´m not going to let it whirl round like a kaleidoscope anymore. It´s my life, wich means wrestling i to the floor and bashing it on the head and saying, Take that, life!
~ Sophie Kinsella
Thanks," I say again. Then I glance at Alicia, and feel a little dart of triumph. She looks utterly deflated.
~ Sophie Kinsella
The weak can defeat the strong in a case as just as mine.
~ Sophocles
There is no more deadly peril than disobedience; States are devoured by it, homes laid in ruins, Armies defeated, victory turned to rout. White simple obedience saves the lives of hundreds Of honest folk. - Creon
~ Sophocles
By God, I'll have more booty in a moment.
~ Sophocles
I am determined that never, if I can help it, Shall evil triumph over good. - Creon
~ Sophocles
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!
~ Sophocles
And remember that the captor is now the captive; the hunter is in the snare. What was won by stealth will not be kept.
~ Sophocles
A man through wit May pass another's wisdom in the race.
~ Sophocles
Sophocles had his full share of such rewards, for we have evidence that he won the first prize at the Dionysia eighteen times, and it is recorded that he never won the third prize.
~ Sophocles
When the Greek mercenaries of Xenophon's Anabasis, after months of marching and fighting in the mountains of Turkey, finally reached the Black Sea, one of them said, thankfully, "Now I can go home like Odysseus, flat on my back.
~ Sophocles