#victories

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security. ↗

— James Buchan

#bloody #bombers #both #brutal #chance

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#aids #changed #countries #cured #discourse

There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it. ↗

— Kurt Busch

#car #claim #even #finishing #going

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#may #settle #take #them #use

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#because #been #contaminated #educations #expensive

What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#american culture #believe #bet #centers #culture

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#lose #sometimes #soul #spirit #victories

Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in. ↗

— Girma Woldegiorgis

#been #country #daughters #encouraging #engaged

Some days making it to the end of the day is quite the victory. -- Bea ↗

— Jennifer Brown

#victories #winning #life

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. ↗

— Golda Meir

#cotton #grown #israel #kind #new