Where there is unity there is always victory.
‘What if?’ history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day – including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery – believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.
Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people’s minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
You know, we – if, for example, Jerry Brown can withstand, you know, what will probably end up being $200 million of spending by his opponent and get elected governor of California, that will be a big victory in the nation’s largest state.
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.
If Republicans triumph in 2014, it will undoubtedly be as a result of Obamacare. In 2010, Republicans soared to historic victory because the much-maligned Tea Party spearheaded mass resistance to Obama’s takeover of the healthcare industry.
There’s no better feeling that celebrating in Victory Lane.
Winning in Monaco is always special. That track has always been good to me. I won there in Formula 3000, battled for the victory with Williams in 2006 and now I’ve won two of the last three grands prix there.
The biggest hurdle that our communities have is cynicism – saying it’s a done deal, who cares; there’s no point to voting. If we can get somebody to care, it’s a huge victory for the movement and the causes we’re trying to advance.
Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn’t care. This is war – not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that’s a victory he savors and desires – unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail.
Yeah, anybody with a heartbeat has a path to victory.
The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt’s 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.
If we can actually decrease the failure rate from nine out of 10 drugs failing in clinical trials and instead have seven out of 10 instead failing, that is a major victory for drug discovery and for people having better therapy.
Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.
There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
Without a plan, there’s no attack. Without attack, no victory.
I’ll go for the knockout, and if we have to go 12 rounds, then I’ll trust the judges to do their best work, and I will get the victory if I deserve it.
If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Winning the Miss Universe title was not only a personal victory but a victory for the whole rainbow nation. I couldn’t be more proud to represent South Africa. I hope this will inspire every single girl with a dream, that with hard work and dedication any dream is reachable.
I want to thank all of my opponents. Iron sharpens iron, and every great victory or crushing defeat occurred because there was someone who trained hard and had the courage to meet me across the cage.
The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.
For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
We have to face the fact that ISIS and its army of like-minded jihadists are determined to win that war and believe they are on the path to victory. They may well be right.
After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.
Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women’s votes that will secure victory at the next election, hence the altogether delicious spectacle of Messrs Brown and Cameron vying to tell stories about broken nights and childcare as men once boasted of goals scored or pheasants bagged.
The moment when you find out when you shoot the pilot – getting the pilot is a small victory. You shoot the pilot, and when you get picked up, that’s a huge victory right there.
My most memorable food challenge was probably the Big Texan in Amarillo. All the big executives called me because it was such an iconic challenge, and a victory in that would be a legitimizing device for myself as much as for the show.
Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
Some may say that I won the first MP elections as I am a celebrity. But, the second time, one’s working style matters to attain victory.
I certainly had times when I thought this wasn’t going to work out, but just being a working actor felt like a victory.
We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
Citizens United was no victory for free speech.
The myth of redemptive violence – Caesar, peace, and victory – is in people’s bones so deeply, we aren’t even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that’s how we bring peace.
In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.
The whole idea behind going ahead with this Chisora fight was that a victory may then lead to a fight with Vitali Klitschko.
After the rise of Thatcherism, the smashing of the trade unions, and the post-cold war sense that any alternative to free-market capitalism was permanently discredited, you can see why the wealthy felt drunk on the sense of eternal victory.
Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress’s constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.
I’m human, we all are – all doctors are – and grieving is a natural part of medicine. As a doctor, grieving is a natural part of medicine. If you deny that, again, you’d get into this trap of curing and victory. I think grief is very important.
You know, when you read stories in the Bible – you know, Samson, the story of David or the story of Moses – you know, there’s conflict on the way to the victory.
A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
I still rate my first victory in the French Open at Roland Garros as my best win ever.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
His ambition for victory sets Mourinho apart. He wants to win every game, so he prepares all the smallest details; in training, at the game, everything. I loved to work with him.
I think England are probably not as streetwise as plenty of other teams. The other top teams know how to keep a victory or do certain things to hang on to leads or get back in games. They’re a lot more streetwise than us. I think as a nation we are very honest, we try to win the right way.
Writing the perfect paper is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, strategy, and, if done right, ends in total victory.
I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I’ve already made up my mind that I have the victory.
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
Courage makes victory possible.
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.
I think the United States military is operating under rules of engagement that are too strict and that do not allow us to pursue victory. When I’m president, that will change.
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
‘Horse Soldiers’ is the untold story of how a small band of U.S. Special Forces soldiers secretly entered Afghanistan in 2001, just five weeks after September 11, saddled up on horses, and rode to an improbable victory against a vastly larger Taliban and Al Qaeda army.
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.
Perseverance and perspective until victory.
The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.
Even at its most powerful, Britain always needed alliances with other European states. There would almost certainly have been no British victory at Waterloo, for instance, without the assistance of Prussia.
