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Perdre Mais perdre vraiment Pour laisser place a' la trouvaille Perdre La vie pour trouver laVictoire. To lose But really to lose And make room for discovery To lose Life so as to discover Victory.
Statisticsarethetriumphofthequantitativemethod, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterilityand death.
In retrospect it always seems as if everything had to develop just the way it did. I call this view the fallacy of retrospective determinismwhich looks at the modern world as a victory of the children of light over the children of darkness if we approve of the development, and of darkness over light if we condemn it.
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord Gwill wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the L hath spoken it.
The first wrote,Wine is the strongest. The second wrote, The king is strongest. The third wrote,Women are strongest: but above all thingsTruth beareth away the victory.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
My Sword, I give to him that shall succeed me in my Pilgrimage, and my Courage and Skill, to himthat can get it. My Marks and Scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me, that Ihave fought his Battles, who now will be my Rewarder As he went, he said,Death, where is thy Sting? And as he went down deeper, he said,Grave where is thy Victory? So he passed over, and the Trumpets sounded for him on the other side.
Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victorie! Now's the day, and now's the hour; See the front o' battle lour; See approach proud Edward's power, Chains and Slaverie!
In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
You ask what is our aim. I can answer in one word victory.Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be.
In defeat unbeatable: in victory unbearable.
Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.
Let 'Dig for Victory' be the motto of everyone with a garden and of every able-bodied man and woman capable of digging an allotment in their spare time.
The advantage of time and place in practical actions is half the victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
No princely pomp, no wealthy store, No force to win the victory, No wily wit to salve a sore, No shape to feed each gazing eye; To none of these I yield as thrall. For why my mind doth serve for all.
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
I am persuaded now that I have a better prospect than MrsThatcher of leading the Conservatives to a fourth electoral victoryand preventing the ultimate calamity of a Labour government.
Victory switches from man to man.
Even in victory, there is no beauty, and he who calls it beautiful is one who delights in slaughter.
Avictory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.
A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. A new era is upon us We have had our last chance. If we do not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
My fellow South Africans, today we are entering a new era for our country and its people. Today we celebrate not the victory of a party, but a victory for all the people of South Africa.
You know how to gain a victory, Hannibal: you know not how to use one.
We affirm that the world's magnificence has been enriched bya new beauty: the beautyof speed. A racing car whose hood is adorned with great pipes, like serpents of explosive breatha roaring car that seems to ride on grapeshot ismore beautiful than theVictory of Samothrace.
And every warrior that is rapt with love Of fame, of valour, and of victory, Must needs have beauty beat on his conceits: I thus conceiving and subduing both, That which hath stopped the tempest of the gods, Even from the fiery-spangled veil of heaven, To feel the lovely warmth of shepherds'flames, And march in cottages of strowe' d weeds, Shall give the world to note, for all my birth, That virtue solely is the sum of glory, And fashions men with true nobility.
Hills of the North, rejoice: Rivers and mountain-spring, Hark to the advent voice! Valleyand lowland, sing! Though absent long, your Lord is nigh, He judgement brings, and victory.
Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat, one needs it.
Thislittlesteamer, likeall herbraveand battered sisters,is immortal. She'll go sailing proudly down the years in the epic of Dunkirk. And our great-great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.
One more such victory, and we are lost!
'And everybody praised the Duke, Who this great fight did win.' 'But what good came of it at last?' Quoth little Peterkin. 'Why that I cannot tell,'said he, 'But 'twas a famous victory.'
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of his agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent and uncertain But there can be no doubt as to the elements in the record that have evoked the best in human nature. The Mother, the Child and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self- forgetful, with his message of peace, love and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.
What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?I wish I knew Just staying on it, I guess, for as long as she can.
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