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“Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.”

Looks Winning Sides Mankind Victory Heroism

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!”

Ifs Should Joy Sides Poor Poverty Failing Victory

Book:The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“So much happened (in 1968) it was hard to keep up with everything. We had Denny McLain's thirty-one victories, Gates Brown's great pinch-hitting in the clutch, Tom Matchick's home run to beat Baltimore in the ninth inning, then Daryl Patterson striking out the side to beat them in the ninth. Excitement every day in the ballpark.”

Hard Home Running Sides Happened Victory Beats Excitement Thirty Brown Gates Toms Hitting Home Run Baltimore Clutch Ballparks Striking Out

Author:Ernie Harwell

“Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."”

Ifs Said War Sides Victory Slaughter Undone

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author

“Something seems wrong to most people engaged in struggle when they see more people hurt on their own side than on the other side. They are used to reading this as an indication of defeat, and a complete mental readjustment is required of them. Within the new terms of struggle, victory has nothing to do with their being able to give more punishment than they take (quite the reverse); victory has nothing to do with their being able to punish the other at all; it has to do simply with being able, finally, to make the other move... Vengeance is not the point; change is.”

People Giving Seems Able Moving Used Reading Sides Term Hurt Struggle Victory Defeat Punishment Engaged Reverse Vengeance Indication

Author:Barbara Deming

“I don't see a situation where one side will win militarily, take over Syria, and there will be peace and quiet, a clean victory.”

Winning Sides Situation Victory Quiet Clean Syria Peace And Quiet

Author:Kofi Annan

“Keep your eye on the end of the course. Victory is secured already. Do not let the hurdles cause thee consternation. Stay in the running. Verily, I am at thy side. According to each day shall thy strength be; and the race is not to the swift, but the obedient shall receive the prize.”

Ends Eye Running Courses Causes Sides Race Victory Thee Each Day Prize Obedient Secured Hurdle Consternation

Book:Come Away My Beloved

Source: Come Away My Beloved

“In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.”

People Should Philosophy Sides Differences Party Clear Victory Should Have Institutions Agreement Ireland Northern Ireland

Author:John Hume

“I certainly think one of the really amazing things about Mr. Trump's victory is there's been an immediate - what one of my friends calls a jump-to-the-Trump in Australia. So you've got politicians of all sides looking at this amazing result in America and thinking, I'd like a bit of that. Can I have a bit of that? And so the opposition leader has been talking about immigrants stealing people's jobs. The prime minister has started talking about media elites in exactly the same terms as President-elect Trump.”

“It's really easy to find your friends when you're playing away. You have a close-knit group with you and everyone else is cheering hard for their side. There's more satisfaction coming away with a road victory.”

Hard Easy Sides Groups Victory Satisfaction Cheer

Author:Jim Courier

“If I didn't have that deep grounding, it would be very easy for me to just be someone who is consumed with anger and hatred. And that would be Trump's great victory: to turn us into replicas of him, just on the other side of a wall screen. I refuse to let me or my family or my movement or my friends be turned into the opposite of Trump. I want to be the antidote for Trump.”

Ifs Want Would Be Turns Easy Sides Movement Wall Trump Victory My Friends My Family Hatred Opposites Let Me Refuse Screens Consumed Antidote Grounding Great Victory Replica

Author:Van Jones

“Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?”

Winning Sides Loses Sweet Victory Your Side

Author:John Podhoretz

“The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.”

Giving Said Peace Sides Victory Resolution Both Sides Win Win

Book:The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that the ugliness of life might defeat its beauty; that love did not make lovers invulnerable. Nevertheless, he thought, even if the world's beauty and love were on the edge of destruction, theirs would still be the only side to be on; defeated love would still be love, hate's victory would not make it other than it was.”

Ifs World Stills Might Faces Night Hate Sides Lovers Victory Destruction And Love Defeat Edges Covered Nevertheless Defeated Ugliness Abraham August Love Hate Apprehension Beauty And Love

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Even if you rise up a thousand times, your side will never achieve victory. ~Ulquiorra”

Ifs Sides Achieve Victory Thousand Your Side Bleach

Author:Tite Kubo

“The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.”

Ifs Giving Art Said Different Sides Seeing Effects Victory Shots Hearing Aids Senses Thee Leaving Me Spurs Slopes Thunderbolts

Book:Don Quixote (StoneHenge Classics): The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha

Source: Don Quixote (StoneHenge Classics): The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha

“He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother”

Years Kind Two Self Bigs Faces Sides Dark Struggle Taken Tears Brother Victory Finished Enormous Noses Breasts Forty Stubborn Misunderstanding Exile Gin Moustache

Author:George Orwell

“The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.”

Ifs World Made War Political Sides Space Gone Military Victory Around The World Apocalypse Both Sides Vietnam War Ideological Vietnamese Political Victory

Book:America

Source: America

“Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out. Niether side is glorious. On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing - not to lie under theearth, but to walk upon it - without crutches.”

Men Want Ideas War Lying Sides Walks Military Victory Army Glorious Frightened Pants Crutches

Book:Peter Weiss' The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat: As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade [a Play]

Source: Peter Weiss' The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat: As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade [a Play]

“The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side.”

War Sides Figures Victory Battle Factors Strategic Headquarters

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.”

“Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind, The boughs drink in new beauty and the trunk Sends down a deeper root on the windward side. Only the soul that knows the mighty grief Can know the mighty rapture, Sorrows come To stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.”

Knows Wells Heart May Soul Joy Sides Space Grief Wind Victory Sorrow Drink Glory Roots Defeat Deeper Shakes Oaks Rapture Trunks

Author:Edwin Markham

“Let's keep our chins up and our knees down - we're on the victory side.”

Christian Sides Victory Christian Inspirational Knees Chins Chin Up

Author:Alan Redpath

“Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes of vast land campaigns, cannot now disengage her air power for a strategically proper application. She missed victory through air power by a hair's breadth in 1940. . . . We ourselves are now at the crossroads.”

Should Firsts Sides Air Land Hair Victory Campaigns Germany Aviation Application Employed Crossroads Breadth Air Power Airpower Mesh

Author:Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

“And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting--on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark--the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”