Victim Of Our Past Quotes

#1. The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.

Donald Davis

#2. The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

Patricia Ireland

#3. In all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.

Barbara De Angelis

#4. I have empathy towards bullying. Not about punishing the bully but empowering the victim. We have a tendency to use the word "bully" and other words in the wrong situations, thus desensitizing and lessening the impact of the true situation.

Renee Lawless

#5. Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.

Gail Carriger

#6. No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

Salma Hayek

#7. If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there.

Myles Munroe

#8. Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.

Freda Adler

#9. There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.

Werner Herzog

#10. With all due respect, Jacobi, that's a load of bull. It was bad, but I handled it. That's what the job is. I hardly have a scratch on me. So stop treating me like a victim. I'm fully functional and absolutely sane. This is my case and I'm on it. OK? OK?

James Patterson

#11. I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I think it's a rite of passage to hate the world and feel like the victim.

Shailene Woodley

#12. Rape is, to me, no different than murder. It kills a part of the victim's soul.

Jonathan Maberry

#13. She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.

Edith Wharton

#14. Is she a very clever little actress, acting a part? Or is she a genuine semi-moronic suicidal victim?

Agatha Christie

#15. Greaser ... greaser ... greaser ... " Steve singsonged. "O victim of environment, underprivileged, rotten, no-count hood!

S.E. Hinton

#16. Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them.

Nenia Campbell

#17. We are victims of our history and our present. They place too many obstacles in the way of love. And we cannot enjoy even our differences in peace.

Ama Ata Aidoo

#18. I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I put up with everyone, I sacrifice myself for everyone.

Silvio Berlusconi

#19. It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.

Alice Miller

#20. The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

Gustave Le Bon

#21. The feeling of superiority is a defect that tends to accompany a victim mentality...as if you deserved any merit for being a product of fate.

Rosa Montero

#22. The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.

Rick Mercer

#23. He strengthened his body to keep up with his mind. He began lifting weights, practicing judo, and wrestling. One day after school, a bully tried to pick on Carmack's neighbor, only to become a victim of Carmack's judo skills.

David Kushner

#24. When backed into a corner, a victim has two options: he can lie down and die, or, he can fight regardless of the odds.

Marc Schiller

#25. The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.

Steve Maraboli

#26. You're a master when things go well, you're a victim when they go out of control.

Richard Bach

#27. If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

Alan Gorrie

#28. It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

Cameron Van Der Burgh

#29. Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

Albert Camus

#30. Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

W. H. Auden

#31. It's the choices you make that construct your future. You can choose to become a victim or you can choose to make decisions that empower you. Surround yourself with people who support your vision so you can keep your focus, and your energy!

Rashmi Bansal

#32. The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

Sun Tzu

#33. John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#34. Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?

Peter Jennings