Quotes about Victor

Ultimately, your destiny is determined by your decisions. It's your actions, and reactions, that define you. So don't play the victim. Be the victor.

To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

But, reverend master, it is not sufficient to pass one's life, one must earn the means for life.

His tavern sign bore witness to his feats of arms. He had painted it himself, being a Jack-of-all-trades who did everything badly.

I tell you, monsieur, it's the end of the world. The students' behaviour has never been so outrageous. It's all these damnable modern inventions that are the ruin of everything.

Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future.

Nothing chills the heart like symmetry, for symmetry is ennui and ennui is at the heart of grief.

It is a charming quality of the happiness we inspire in others that, far from being diminished like a reflection, it comes back to us enhanced.

But for the matter of that, Ursus, although eccentric in manner and disposition, was too good a fellow to invoke or disperse hail, to make faces appear, to kill a man with the torment of excessive dancing, to suggest dreams fair or foul and full of terror, and to cause the birth of cocks with four wings. He had no such mischievous tricks.