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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement. -- Tacitus
Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture. -- Mickey Spillane
Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen. -- Esther Williams
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. -- F. Sionil Jose
And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five. -- James Merrill
Victor Wooten is the Carlos Castaneda of music -- Tony Levin
Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops... -- Jon Champion
My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon -- Raymond Roussel
My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon. -- Raymond Roussel
Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo -- Jean Cocteau
We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. - Victor Frankenstein -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors. [Lat., Victor victorum cluet.] -- Plautus
If she can bite a vulture, she can jump a crack.~Victor Frankenstein -- Kenneth Oppel
There is always a use for everything, Victor had told him. Even pain. -- Eoin Colfer
Victor Oladipo is like a babyâ??s bottom â?? smooth and sometimes explosive. -- Clark Kellogg
Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny -- Eoin Colfer
[I like] Victor Jara and the music of Chile, and the social movement in Chile. -- Jill Stein
"Why," he began slowly, "is Victor Dashkov joining us?" "Well, it's kind of a funny story . . ." -- Richelle Mead
Dor: there is a reason God lmits our days. Victor: why? Dor: to make each one precious. -- Mitch Albom
I wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners. -- Frankie Avalon
People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.~Victor Radcliff -- Harry Turtledove
Working with them was a great experience. Victor Garber, Stephen McHattie and Ray Liotta - they were all bang-up. -- Laura Vandervoort
No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must. -- Doron Zeilberger
...but to be a connectworker, one must have an overall positive influence on people, and Victor has really made the switch. -- Michele Jennae
I have no time for babbling foolishness.â? "Don't be so hasty,â? said Victor. "There's always time for babbling. -- Eoin Colfer
Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people. -- Miriam Schapiro
Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?" Nico: "Try not to die. -- Brian K. Vaughan
ÊºWhy,Êº he began slowly, Êºis Victor Dashkov joining us?Êº ÊºWell, itÊ¹s kind of a funny story . . .Êº -- Richelle Mead
Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it. -- Kenneth Branagh
I wonder if Effie will still be wearing that silly pink wig, or is she'll be sporting some other unnatural color especially for the Victor Tour. -- Suzanne Collins
"The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless. -- Wilferd Peterson
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. -- Chico Hamilton
I felt like I was watching the transfomation of two people: Victor to wolf, and Cole to someone else. I was the only one here, staying the same. -- Maggie Stiefvater
If Victor was frightened by Dimitri's threat, he didn't show it. His jade green eyes glanced between the two of us. "You two are a match made in heaven. Or somewhere. -- Richelle Mead
In Moulin Rouge I could not change the name of Toulouse-Lautrec obviously to Toulouse-Lautrec- Martinez. But in ER I did that, my name is Dr Victor Clemente, so sometimes it is possible. -- John Leguizamo
Okay, so. You, Belikov, the Alchemist, Sonya Karp, Victor Dashkov, and Robert Doru are all hanging out in West Virginia together." "No," I said. "No?" "We're, uh, not in West Virginia. -- Richelle Mead
I believe indeed that to rescue the humanist tradition of the last decades is of the utmost importance, and that Victor Serge is one of the outstanding personalities representing the socialist aspect of humanism. -- Erich Fromm
I did a film called 'Victor' that I'm really proud of! It was a period piece and the true life story of Victor Torres. I play his mom, and it's a very moving film. -- Lisa Vidal
I have it on good authority that Victor's going to have car trouble. Also that Robert really likes Cheerios, so if you want some, you're out of luck. He doesn't seem like the sharing type. -- Richelle Mead
I don't know who those other people are and what they did to you, but I'm not one of them," I whispered, on the verge of tears. (Molly)"You are. You just don't know yet." (Victor)" -- A.B. Whelan
YOU are using a frisbee as a plate." "Uh, what? I'm not using a--oh hang on, this is a frisbee. Weird." Victor glared at me. "Dude, calm down, I'll wash it afterward. It's probably dishwasher safe. -- Jenny Lawson
Victor patted my hand. 'I like you, Sky. You're a fighter.''I am, aren't I? Hear that, Zed? No more bambi comparisons. I'm a Rottweiler -with a temper.''A very small Rottweiler,' said Zed, still not convinced. -- Joss Stirling
In Victor's life, monotony and boredom had nothing to do with one another. He repeated his repertoire so often that even from miles away, Clara could follow his conversation with anyone who happened to be sitting next to him. -- Luisa Valenzuela
The resentment I felt inside was not hatred for being imprisoned or for Victor who had betrayed me but something deeper: a rebellion against the very way of things that condemned men to be imprisoned inside their own identities. -- MacDonald Harris
It sounded good. It was a story that Victor Conte told me to use. I was contacted by Dr. Goldman, and that's how the story came about. And that was my first time ever meeting, or speaking, to Dr. Goldman. -- Kelli White
I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth. -- Jacques Pepin
Victor smiled through the pain and the blood. "Of course you have. I used to think Belikov was the savage one, but it's really you, isn't it? You're the animal with no control, no higher reasoning except to fight and kill. -- Richelle Mead
I was writing for a publishing company in this old building right next to the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville. We were on the top floor, and Combine Music was on the bottom floor. I was friends with all those guys. -- Donnie Fritts
I would say it was [ifluence] all the Greeks and the Russian classics like [Lev] Tolstoy, [Andrey] Goncharov,[Fedor] Dostoyevsky, [Alexander] Pushkin, and the international classics in Russian translation like Victor Hugo, George Sand, Charlotte Bronte, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain. -- Vera Nazarian
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. -- Elmer Bernstein
Victor, if you read this stuff, you can save people in the past from drowning. It's like time is a river, and it's nighttime, and you can hear people calling, Help, we're disappearing! So you stop and listen. That's how you save them. -- Peter Gould
For some reason, it didn't feel right. Victor's words seemed to confirm that. There was another reason that he'd come here. Falling in love with Elizabeth might have been part of it. But that wasn't all. Something else was coming. There is more. -- Nicholas Sparks
Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people. -- Marguerite Young
Quite often I'll turn on the television and something like Sound of Music will be on or Victor/Victoria and I might watch a moment or two. But I don't actually sit down and say I'm going to watch one of my movies. -- Julie Andrews
Throw up" Victor said.Bacteria, he believed, would run up his arms and gain access to his brain through his ear canalsVomit. Puke. Spew. Disgorge. Regorge. Discharge- like excrement.""Victor, stop it!" Doll snappedYou're making me nauseous.""Talk--vomit words. Sound and sound alike," he said." -- Tami Hoag
Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile. -- A. A. Gill
FACT: The Priory of Sion - a European secret society founded in 1099 - is a real organization. In 1975 Paris's Bibliothque Nationale discovered parchments known as Les Dossiers Secrets, identifying numerous members of the Priory of Sion, including Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Leonardo da Vinci. -- Dan Brown
Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt. Neighbor. Hunter. Tribute. Ally. I'll add it to the list of words I use to try to figure you out. The problem is, I can't tell what's real anymore, and what's made up. -- Suzanne Collins
There's a lot of dancing in football. You can see Victor Cruz doing a little bit of cha-cha or sambra move in the end zone. You can see Terrell Owens getting his popcorn ready. You can see Ochocinco doing the river dance. But not so much in the ballroom. -- Emmitt Smith
ÊºWho"²s a spirit user?Êº said Robert. ÊºFormer spirit user,Êº said Victor, ÊºShe became a Strigoi to get away from it.Êº ÊºYes . . . always a lure to that . . . kill to live, live to kill. Immortality and freedom from these chains, but oh, what a loss . . .Êº said Robert. -- Richelle Mead
The victor belongs to the spoils. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
To the victor belong the responsibilities. -- Al Bernstein
I'd rather be a victor than a victim. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out. -- Charles B. Rangel
At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures. -- Gloria Swanson
The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time. -- Gustav Stresemann
I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser. -- Mike Huckabee
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers. -- Neville Chamberlain
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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. -- John Boyd Orr
For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him. -- Gustav Stresemann
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. -- Goodluck Jonathan
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. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
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. -- Hideki Tojo
If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace. -- Gustav Stresemann
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. -- Emmitt Smith
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. -- August Wilson
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. -- Marcel Duchamp
Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage. -- Zakk Wylde
For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, and people report that they get great value from it. Another core genius is compiling and writing books. Along with my co-author Mark Victor Hansen and others, I have written, co-authored, compiled and edited more than 200 books. -- Jack Canfield
From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the poet is the leader in the dance of life; and the phrase by which we name his singularity, the poetic temperament, denotes the primacy of that passion in his blood with which the frame of other men is less richly charged. -- George Edward Woodberry
No victor believes in chance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable -- Winston Churchill
Be a victor , not a victim. -- Joel Osteen
I've been a victor of circumstance. -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Deathless laurel is the victor's due. -- John Dryden
A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor. -- Virgil
A victor's mentality becomes a victor's reality. -- Joel Osteen
History is but the polemics of the victor. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy. -- William L. Marcy
The victor is often vanquished by his own success. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop whining. You're not a victim. You're a victor. -- Eric Thomas
The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran. -- Madeleine Albright
I am the victor. In the end nothing else matters. -- Christopher Paolini
So fair a victor, how can I help but be conquered. -- Alice Borchardt
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. -- Adolf Hitler
The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out. -- Charles B. Rangel
I believe that the madness of Communism would be the sole victor. -- Adolf Hitler
The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so -- Quintus Ennius
Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in the old warrior's credo that "to the victor go the spoils." -- Pope Francis
Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling will be the victor. -- Neville Goddard
Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat. -- Elizabeth Oakes Smith
All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested. -- Paulo Coelho
Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave. -- John Dryden
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. -- Harriett Woods
Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat. -- S. D Gordon
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary. -- Seneca the Younger
In my darkest hours I had a choice to make. I could be a victim or a victor. -- Wynonna Judd
a victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later. -- Muriel Lester
It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Only the victor gets to write history; where half of the facts are distorted and the other half invented. -- Mamur Mustapha
If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is found the heart of a victor. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history. -- Fernand Braudel
Love is the victor in every case. Love breaks down the iron bars of thought, and sets the captive free. -- Ernest Holmes
...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor. -- Raleigh Trevelyan
To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

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