Words matter. These are the best Victor Quotes from famous people such as Marcel Duchamp, John Boyd Orr, Ivanka Trump, Adolf Hitler, F. Sionil Jose, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In France, in Europe, the young artists of any generation always act as grandsons of some great man – Poussin, for example, or Victor Hugo. They can’t help it. Even if they don’t believe in that, it gets in their system. And so when they come to produce something of their own, the tradition is nearly indestructible.
Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.
Oftentimes, the best negotiations result in a deal that benefits both parties. There are times when you simply want to go for the jugular, but often, you want the other person to feel pleased with the outcome, even if you are the clear victor.
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
Tom Hooper did an amazing job in capturing the feel of Victor Hugo’s book. I thought some of the performances were incredible. I thought the Bishop would be a nice part to play, and they all made such a fuss of me being there.
He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure – who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.
Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world’s peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it – that is true civilization.
I don’t want to be a victim. I want to be a victor.
There’s a lot of dancing in football. You can see Victor Cruz doing a little bit of a cha-cha or samba move in the end zone. You can see Terrell Owens getting his popcorn ready. You can see Ochocinco doing the riverdance. But not so much when it comes to ballroom.
The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.
Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.
We often know only one version of the story… the version portrayed by the person who wins a war and lives to tell the tale, and the one who loses a war is always remembered as the ‘Antagonist’ making the victor the ‘Protagonist.’
Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we’d be good together on screen.
Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people.
Victor Stone’s story is one of acceptance – of self and others. Also, accepting his father for the person he once was, absent from his life until he turned him into Cyborg. And acceptance of oneself in that he is both Cyborg and Victor Stone simultaneously.
Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you’d written The Man with the Golden Arm score.
The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.
My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. We have demonstrated, even in our diversity, the progress of Nigeria remains paramount for all.
It was 1976, and I was acting off-Broadway with a pair of Canadians: Victor Garber and Gale Garnett. The play was called ‘Cracks,’ and Martin Sherman, the man who wrote it, went on a few years later to have a giant hit with ‘Bent.’ But not this time around. Opening night was a disaster.
Each of the top goalkeepers has a particular quality to teach me. I look at Diego Lopez, Iker Casillas, Victor Valdes, Gianluigi Buffon… they all have tremendous experience and ability, and have spent years proving they are the best.
The competitions between fiction and nonfiction, short and long, electronic and paper, are not battles in which there can be only one victor. After all, we exist in a world where more kinds of writing than ever are greeted with interest and enthusiasm.
In Surojit’s film, ‘Pagol Hawar Bodol Din,’ I am a villager. Victor Banerjee is also part of the film. The uniqueness of ‘PHBD’ is that the whole film is like a poem.
I used to wear sneakers with those nice suits because I wanted Victor Sifuentes to have a bounce in the courtroom.
My roots and Victor’s are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they’re tremendously exciting players.
I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, ‘Napoleon’s will to power,’ and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn’t think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him.
No matter how many fights I got into, I was always the victor. I didn’t like it, though. I remember being 12 years old, and I looked in the sky, and I said, ‘God, I don’t want to fight no more. I’m tired of fighting. I know what I want to do in my life, and fighting’s not going to get me there.’
After Victor Paz’s government, I was still in politics, but I personally spent a lot of time consulting and working with Argentina, with Peru, and in Brazil.
The victor belongs to the spoils.
