#victor

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory. ↗

— Judy Woodruff

#democratic #everything #fresh #how #image

Oh yeah. Hey, dont pay any attention to what my grandma says." "Why not?" "Well, she can be very ctitical." "Oh thats okay I take criticism very well." "No you dont." "Whats that supposed to mean??!!" "I just said you dont take criticism very well!" "Why dont you just kick me in the face!!!" "Im sorry. I take it back." and like that, Kats anger is gone. "Mmmkkaayyyy." she sang, all happy and carefree again. ↗

— Kat Robby

#kat #robby #victorious #anger

People change when shit happens. ↗

— Victoria Scott

#the-collector #victoria-scott #change

Step follows step, Hope follows Courage, Set your face towards danger, Set your heart on victory. ↗

— Gail Carson Levine

#inspirational #victory #courage

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#happiness #victory #dreams

The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#gospel #risk #victory #faith

Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (...) Even when she was winning, her civilian statesmen, her High Command, and her soldiers repeated that this was no contest between armaments; it was pitting of our faith in things against their faith in spirit. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#japan #materialism #spirit #united-states #victory

The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means. ↗

— Barbara Marciniak

#power #sanity #victor #family

Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to pucker their lips suggestively. They could not say that they were going "to bed"--that planted too stimulating an image--but merely that they were "retiring." It became effectively impossible to discuss clothing in even a clinical sense without resort to euphemisms. Trousers became "nether integuments" or simply "inexpressibles" and underwear was "linen." Women could refer among themselves to petticoats or, in hushed tones, stockings, but could mention almost nothing else that brushed bare flesh. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#modesty #underwear #victorian-era #home

I’m not like her. I don’t steal people.” Mr. Tibbalt watched her, saying nothing. The silence made Victoria bristle. “Well, I don’t. ↗

— Claire Legrand

#similarities #victoria-wright #home