Decisive Victory Quotes

#1. Clausewitz, a dead Prussian, and Norman Angell, a living if misunderstood professor, had combined to fasten the short-war concept upon the European mind. Quick, decisive victory was the German orthodoxy;

Barbara W. Tuchman

#2. A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: The hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.

Joseph Campbell

#3. it looked like the centuries-long wrestling match between state and capital had ended in a decisive victory for capital. Possibly

Kim Stanley Robinson

#4. The late brilliant actions in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas divided and weakened the enemy on the Rappahannock, and the auspicious moment seems to have arrived to strike a great and mortal blow at the Rebellion, and to gain that decisive victory which is due to the country.

Ambrose Burnside

#5. The problem for us was to move forward to a decisive victory, or our cause was lost.

Ulysses S. Grant

#6. There is only one decisive victory: the last.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#7. The place of private prayer is the key, the strategic position, where decisive victory is obtained.

Andrew Murray

#8. You look like a hot tamale."
"That's not really a compliment.

Simone Elkeles

#9. My own preference is for mixed (beds) where there are ... groups of larger shrubs on corners and elsewhere to give shape to the views and to create surprises.

Graham Stuart Thomas

#10. We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.

Umberto Eco

#11. You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.

Joe Perry

#12. People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.

Renata Adler

#13. The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

Rosa Luxemburg

#14. Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals ...

Edward Gibbon

#15. In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear evidence that airpower has evolved into a force in war co-equal with land and sea power, decisive in its own right and worthy of the faith of its prophets.

Carl Andrew Spaatz

#16. I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest.

Nick Cave

#17. To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.

Bobby Ghosh

#18. I would not think twice about being part of any incarnation of the 'X-Men' films.

James Marsden

#19. In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.

Henrik Ibsen

#20. The place that you gain the most power is within your own mind. Stopping thought generates power. That is why people meditate. The longer you can stop thought, the more power you gain.

Frederick Lenz

#21. It's not weird being recognised, but it's weird having to stop what you're doing to take pictures or sign something. But the fans are the reason you have your success, so it comes with the territory.

Chord Overstreet

#22. Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.

Melina Mercouri

#23. [T]he important thing was that each Saturday they must win games and put The Academy on the sporting pages. For that, after all, was the final index to the rating of an American school.

John Horne Burns

#24. Are there children out there?
Um, yes sir, they're all children.
Run a few down.
Sir?
Drive over a few of the little brats. That'll scare 'em off.

Derek Landy

#25. Russia made a decisive contribution to the victory over Nazism. That's clear to every honest observer. So, therefore, in a certain manner, it is indeed part of the country's national psyche.

Dmitry Medvedev

#26. What personality does it take to drive a car around a track 100 times or hit a ball back and forth. That's not very personality is it?

Tyson Fury

#27. Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau