#victory

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#abandoned #cannot #defeat #either #end

V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#day #ended #fighting #japan #japanese

We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

#know #national #our #outcome #over

When running to fill a time quota, however, the reverse happens. You can't make that time pass any faster by rushing, so you settle into a pace that feels right to you at the moment. Each minute above a quota is a little victory. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#any #each #faster #feels #fill

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory? ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#did #failure #help #inadequate #information

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#method #quantitative #statistics #sterility #triumph

My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#perform #victory #winning

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#desire #everything #honor #idol #idols

It makes a big difference to recycle. It makes a big difference to use recycled products. It makes a big difference to reuse things, to not use the paper cup - and each time you do, that's a victory. ↗

— Emily Deschanel

#big difference #cup #difference #each #makes

I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory. ↗

— Pierre Laval

#british #could #europe #feel #german