“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.” FeelsBelieveUnderstandingResultsVictoryEuropeBritishGermanyLastingSoviet Author:Pierre Laval
“Typically, we see an upsurge in anti-abortion violence . . . when the anti-abortion movement kind of thinks it was on the verge of victory, and then finds itself somehow thwarted. . . . When there’s frustration among the anti-abortion forces, violence often results.” ThinkingKindForceResultsViolenceMovementVictoryAbortionFrustrationVergeAnti Abortion Author:Michelle Goldberg
“Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.” ResultsMovementVictorySilentLoudIdleSuperficialFloatingGlowingParalysisBlowing UpGloating Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.” WellsWarDonePoliticalResultsJudgingVictoryStandardsMinistersNot SureHistorianJudged Author:Winston Churchill
“You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole. You must stand where you can see the man as he treads the entire path that leads from the cradle to the grave - now crossing the plain, now climbing the steeps, now passing through pleasant fields, now wending his way with difficulty between rugged rocks - tempted, tried, tested, triumphant.” MenWayYearsWholeMomentsHoursResultsViewsPathRocksFieldsHe ManJudgingVictoryDifficultyGravesPassingPassingsPleasantClimbingTestedTemptedCradleCrossingsTriumphantPassing ThroughRugged Book:The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan Source: The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan
“War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon.” YearsLongHas BeensWarHappensCultureRealizingCommunityResultsImagineGenerationsOne ThingEconomicPolicyVictoryEternalVictimIncludingDefeatDisasterRuinsRegionsAlasSerbia Author:Susan Sontag
“Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while others appear to be fruitless, which nevertheless all aim at a common goal, all drive at a common result: namely, at a decision, a conclusion which alone can provide victory.” GoalDecisionResultsCommonEffortVictoryConsequenceAimConclusionNeverthelessCommon Goal Book:Precepts and Judgments Source: Precepts and Judgments
“One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a soundcurrency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.” IfsPoliticalSufferingResultsPartyBuildingVictoryRepublicanSouthDefeatAdministrationReformEtcExecutivesPolitical PartiesPublic LifeLegislatureBuilding UpGreat VictoryCivil Service Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“I don't know whether the movement crashed as a result of the overwhelming character of the institutions we set out to change. I think repression had a lot to do with the dismantling of the movement and also the winning of certain victories had something to do with the inability of the movement to take those victories as the launching point for new goals and developing new strategies.” ThinkingKnowsCharacterCertainWinningGoalResultsMovementVictoryInstitutionsStrategyDevelopingOverwhelmingInabilityRepressionLaunchingNew Goal Author:Angela Davis
“Today I will once more be a prophet. If the international Jewish financiers, inside and outside Europe, succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevisation of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!” IfsWorldWarTodayEarthNationsResultsRaceVictorySucceedEuropeInternationalWar Of The WorldsProphetAnnihilationFinanciersInside And Outside Author:Adolf Hitler