#victor

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice. ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

#battered #bloody #cease #enough #further

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#good #history #invincibility #tyrants #victory

I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era. ↗

— Connie Willis

#humor #victorian-era #humor

Just then things weren't going so well in my life. My business was precariously perched on the brink of bankruptcy, my anemic love life was the stuff of a Sartre treatise – Being with Nothingness – my car could use a tune-up, my apartment could use a scrubbing, my body could use some exercise, though who would give it that was a mystery to me. I was too young to feel old, and yet there it was, the despair of middle age, hanging around my neck like a noose. ↗

— William Lashner

#age

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#decisive #element #final #masses #revolution

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory. ↗

— Bob Marley

#cheap #heat #i #know #man

I think this could be our best victory over Germany since the war. ↗

— John Motson

#could #germany #i #i think #our

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#battles #consists #fighting #happiness #itself

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war. ↗

— William McKinley

#conflict #eminence #ever #interest #let us

The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000. ↗

— Heidi Klum

#catalogue #did #eating #events #exercise