Quotes About Victory

Bug turned to me. "I have been chasing that shit monkey all over the fucking city. He destroyed three of my drones. He mocked me.

Yes, yes. Stalk all you want. There was no way he would be discussing any kind of fraternization in front of his mother and stepfather. She'd outmaneuvered him. For some odd reason, it made her feel ridiculously accomplished.

You are to be proud of your enemy; then, the success of your enemy is your success also

When, when will the state finally recognize that it has no higher duty than to safeguard the happiness of the millions of ordinary people? When finally will the state forget about the ideals that ignore the needs of simple everyday life? And when will it understand that a small step, however difficult it may be, taken in the direction of peace for the individual, as for nations, is greater than victory in battle?

He was lost in thought, vividly imagining scenes of battle and victory. He was a Boy Scout. He and his friends would form a group of volunteers, sharpshooters who would defend their country to the end. In a flash, his mind raced through time and space. He and his friends: a small group bound by honour and loyalty. They would fight, they would fight all night long; they would save their bombed-out, burning Paris.

Le bonheur conjugal ne ressemble pas plus au bonheur tout court que l'amour conjugal ne ressemble à l'amour. (...) Il est négatif, (...) fait d'une somme de malheurs victorieusement déjoués.

La signora Angellier suonò. La cuoca si affrettò a chiudere le imposte e le finestre, e il buio escluse tutto: i canti, il suono dei baci, il dolce splendore delle stelle, il passo dei vincitori sul selciato , e il verso del rospo assetato che, inappagato, chiedeva acqua al cielo.

Battle of Ajnadayn

But death is not easy, and life can win by simulating it.

She was her death now, that death which she had so much striven to emulate in life, which she had studied and practised and loved. She had succeeded, and death and she had converged into a single point. Who knew if that was victory or defeat? His last vision was of the white veil that hid her now. After all, and at last, she had become utterly private.

She committed her energies to the Labour Party in 1944 but expressed disappointment with its leaders, complaining to David Hicks in May of 'the usual lack of unity and intelligent leadership on the left'. To her surprise and delight, however, the Labour Party swept to victory in July 1945.

The games are always been played, and no one plays the games like me. You just have to be the best. And I usually am.

I haven't felt that good since Archie Gemmill scored against Holland in 1978 -Mark Renton

Alla guerra di amor vince chi fugge.

Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.

Fighting and scars are part of a trader's overhead. But fighting is only useful when there's money at the end, and if I can get it without, so much the sweeter.

Come, captain, we had no leadership worthy of the name then, and we faced the cleverest opponent, the heaviest armor, the strongest force of all. Yet we won by the inevitability of history.

To mankind, and the hope that the war against folly may someday be won after all.

He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man.

I'm forty-nine, not fifteen, and I've made my peace with myself. Had I been handsome and stupid when I was fifteen, or twenty-one, as, at that time in life, I wished I had been, I would undoubtedly now no longer be handsome--but I'd still be stupid. So, in the long run, I've won out.

You feel safe now that Seldon will speak, and you move against us. A month ago you were soft and yielding, when our ships defeated the Mule at Terel. I might remind you, sir, that it is the Foundation Fleet that has been defeated in open battle five times, and that the ships of the Independent Trading Worlds have won your victories for you.

Es la risita adquisitiva; es la risita del hombre que acaba de obtener algo que deseaba ardientemente a expensas de algún otro. Relatos de los Viudas Negras (Kindle Location 215). LeLibros. Kindle Edition.

retold as a heroic and masterly reversal of a lost situation.

The Foundation can never lose, but that does not mean the rulers of the Foundation can't.