Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rhodri Morgan

Tony Blair will be remembered as a great friend to Wales because it was his landslide election victory in 1997 that led to devolution.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism.

Woodrow Wilson

It must be a peace without victory

William Wordsworth

For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.

Samuel Smiles

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

Tullian Tchividjian

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

Vladimir Lenin

In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

Ryan Seacrest

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.

William Faulkner

No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Geoff Davis

Historically, the reorganization movements in this state haven't been very successful. There are far more defeated merger studies than there are successful ones.

John Higgins

It had nothing to do with Graeme. It was just the way I played, the way I approached the game and the state of mind I was in. I have never felt as down after that defeat as I did then.

Laurent Fournier

I don't have any explanation for this defeat. I'm stunned, and I don't know what to say.

William Moulton Marston

If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.

Tullian Tchividjian

The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.

Susan Grant

If somebody tricks you into providing that information, then, of course, it defeats the whole purpose.

Frederick the Great

It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised.

Norman Vincent Peale

The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.

Vince Gill

It's so hard to defeat perceptions. I feel like whenever you have the opportunity, you take it and show people what it is that you do.

Hector Hugh Munro

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

Karl Marx

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

Lech Walesa

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.

Michel De Certeau

One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.

Jack Levine

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

Fulton J. Sheen

Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.

Francisco Franco

There will be no communism.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.

Vaclav Klaus

Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity.