Arms are instruments of ill omen. . . . When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. . . . When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.
Lao tzu
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Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoo.
William Shakespeare
MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.
Ambrose Bierce
Anytime you had as many turnovers as we did, and you still come out victorious at the end, it's always an added plus.
Charles Rush
I'm pleased with our progress we are making; we were able to play 16 players tonight and still come away victorious.
Len Thiede
They were very physical and we overcame that. Orange just kept pushing so to emerge victorious was super.
Michael Richards
I feel the rally has stalled amid disappointment about progress in the war, but Bush is right, the allies will be victorious, and that will provide more fuel for the market to advance from a purely sentiment point of view rather than on fundamentals.
Clive Mcdonnell
We are confident that we will be victorious and at the same time will continue to innovate at a faster pace than the rest of the industry. The Vega chip is a great example. We've been in the market for only eight to 10 months with Vega 1, and we already have working samples of Vega 2 in the lab... We want to bring the pace of innovation of the graphics hardware industry to enterprise computing.
Scott Sellers
Although it will be an intense affair, we will all have fun and, in the end, the sport of lacrosse will be victorious.
Gavin Prout
The hopeful sign is that on all kinds of fronts where Republicans hoped to be united and victorious, they're now defensive and disunited.
Roger Hickey
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-- victorious.
Vince Lombardi
We know if we go away and still come out victorious, like we have been, it'll put more pressure on us coming home. It puts extra pressure when you do so well outside because you must do well at home.
Hamid Siadat
Last year we were in the shoes they're wearing this year. We went into their stadium with nothing to lose and we came out victorious. We've had that mentality. We know how they're thinking. They're a talented team, and those bad breaks have come in game-changing events.
Bryan Harris
It would certainly help. I think that would go a long way to deciding the team that comes out victorious. I think they probably feel like they can win playing our style and we feel like, if the chips fall right, we can win playing their style.
Kirby Dean
I've been on the team since 2000 and I finally pulled one together and came out victorious.
Walter Davis
Guy did a great job, I'm not angry. We were victorious that's what matters to me.
Horace Jenkins
When a guy like that goes down, you can do one of two things - you can struggle and get in trouble or you can scratch and claw and find a way to come out victorious.
Quentin Moses
After that, it's go to work and try to come out victorious. This is a big game.
Kellen Easley
I have full confidence in the capacity of the PQ to renew itself and I am convinced that the current leadership race will allow our rank-and-file members to elect as leader the person who will lead us to electoral victory and, especially, a victorious referendum.
Bernard Landry
I felt like we kind of went brain dead in the final four minutes. You can't make mistakes up here and come out victorious.
Jimmy Alexander
Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
Sarah Bernhardt
Ultimately, in its collapse, Laos was important because it proved the validity of the so-called 'domino theory', which preached that communism - once victorious in South Vietnam - would metastasize throughout the region.
Michael Johns
When I walked out [of the tunnel] to get ready for that game, the only thing I was worrying about was that game. I would have liked to have been able to walk off the field victorious, but we didn't. And I'm part of the reason we didn't.
Charlie Weis
I'm not sure that a company wants Michelle Kwan as a spokesperson at this point because she's not perceived to be victorious.
Jonathan Taplin
This was a great meet for us. The competition was good. Any time you can go down south and come back victorious says a lot for your program.
Ronald Williams
Our goal was to compete with a working robot. We were already victorious when we got there, and we ended up taking it all.
Luis Gutierrez
Admiral Stockdale challenged the human limits of moral courage, physical endurance and intellectual bravery, emerging victorious as a legendary beacon for all to follow.
Vern Clark
Cal Poly is a feisty team. We have always had intense battles with them and the home team has come away victorious the last four years. Their team is pretty well experienced and deep. John Nguyen has had a solid year with impressive wins at the top position.
George Husack
When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.
Morihei Ueshiba
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