Snatching Victory Quotes & Sayings

His blank face communicated an emptiness that could never be filled"
- Frank Balenger — David Morrell

Ya called Fargo yet?"
"No, I've been too busy trying to destroy the Guild and corrupt Simon's soul. Being evil is a full-time job. — Jana Oliver

I would prefer that in the Republican party, we not engage in trying to destroy each other, because all that does is hand the election over to the Democrats. I don't know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they'll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening. — Benjamin Carson

I love horses so much. Horses are my life. — Lea Michele

Coleridge perceived as no one else had done that lesbianism could be a source of the sublime. — Andrew Elfenbein

For proper government, the tribe must have ways to choose men whose lives reflect the way a government should behave. From — Frank Herbert

I believe in God; I'm not saying I'm highly religious. — Michael Phelps

He was staring hard, not at his wife and me but at his daughter watching us. In his cold pupil, in the firm twist of his lips, was reflected Madame Miyagi's orgasm reflected in her daughter's gaze. — Italo Calvino

There is a reason the Democrats have had only two Presidents since 1968 and have managed to lose control of both houses of Congress in recent years. There is a reason they keep snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. And it's not fraud and it's not dirty politics and it's not stupid voters. It's the plain and simple fact that the majority of those who vote don't like them. — Pat Sajak

Our ancestry streches back through the life forms and into the stars, back into the beginnings of the primeval fireball. This universe is a single multiform energetic unfolding of matter, mind, intelligence and life. — Brian Swimme

I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups. — Mo Rocca

Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I'd look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give the Muse a chance to get to know you. — Tony D'Souza

It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods. — Jean-Paul Sartre

What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death. — William James

Have you always been so large? (Nora)
Aye. I came from my mother's womb at full height. The shock of it almost killed her. (Ewan) — Kinley MacGregor