After a casual listen, it might be easy to lump Rocky Votolato in with the downtrodden likes of Conor Oberst and Elliott Smith. But his songwriting is a bit more triumphant than theirs: Votolato would rather pull himself out of a gutter than wallow in it, focusing instead on the victory before the misery.

Anthony Fantano

Writing Would Wit

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Abraham Lincoln

Peace Victory Victor

Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.

Abu Bakar Bashir

Success Power God

Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.

Abu Bakr

God Will Victory

Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

World Victory Victor

As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.

Adam Hochschild

War World War World

My most memorable food challenge was probably the Big Texan in Amarillo. All the big executives called me because it was such an iconic challenge, and a victory in that would be a legitimizing device for myself as much as for the show.

Adam Richman

Food Would Victory

So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.

Adam Schiff

Victory Victor Us

I don't think I'm capable of giving a character every possible victory, no matter how much I love them, without feeling as if their ending isn't genuine to their actual trials.

Adam Silvera

Love Without Wit

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

Adlai Stevenson I

Who Victory Victor

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

Aeschylus

Men Wed Victory

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Al Gore

Well Victory Victor

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

Al Lewis

Time Victory Victor

I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.

Alan Moore

Morning Love Victory

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Albert Pike

War Which Victory

This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Work Peace Knowledge

Somebody ask me, 'Alberto, why you not race in Torino?' I finished my career here in 1998, the 15 of March which was my last victory.

Alberto Tomba

Car You Why

People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory can be even more damaging than defeat. Very few people really know how to win.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Wound Win Victory

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

Alexander Smith

Memorial Day Would Victory

I do not pilfer victory.

Alexander the Great

Victory Victor Tory

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

Alexander the Great

Nature World Who

The biggest hurdle that our communities have is cynicism - saying it's a done deal, who cares; there's no point to voting. If we can get somebody to care, it's a huge victory for the movement and the causes we're trying to advance.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

Alfred North Whitehead

The most valuable thing my dad taught me was to never care about what other people thought. When he came to my shows, and I'd announce his presence, he'd stand up with his hands clasped in victory and cheer my name.

Ali Wong

Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure victory at the next election, hence the altogether delicious spectacle of Messrs Brown and Cameron vying to tell stories about broken nights and childcare as men once boasted of goals scored or pheasants bagged.

Allison Pearson

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

Alva Myrdal

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

The general commanding congratulates his troops on their brilliant and successful occupation of Roanoke Island. The courage and steadiness they have shown under fire is what he expected from them, and he accepts it as a token of future victory.

Ambrose Burnside

Every time I have fought elections, I have improved my victory margins.

Amit Shah

Three key elements triggered NDA's spectacular 2014 election victory - taking development and prosperity to the lowest rung of society, eradication of corruption, and ensuring transparency and ease of doing business.

Amit Shah

The BJP's decisions are never based on victory and defeat in elections.

Amit Shah

I like the Victory rolls, beehive, pompadour - all of that stuff. It's just cool. And actually, with ethnic hair, oddly enough, it works so well because I don't have to tease my hair to get body.

Andra Day

Sometimes a pinch of sadism is the ingredient that makes victory taste that little bit sweeter.

Andrea Pirlo

I came to New York City as a player, so my objective is to take the team as high as possible, preferably to victory. If that helps Major League Soccer grow, then that's welcome, too, but I was signed as a New York City FC player and to do what's best for the team.

Andrea Pirlo

Ever since Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. election, I've been trying to expand my scope to understand the thought processes of people who don't see the world, or humanity, as I do.

Andreja Pejic

Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror.

Andrew Card

Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq.

Andrew Card

I really believed Obama when he spoke in 2008, but I remember watching his victory speech after this last election and it was the same speech. Exactly the same speech. I felt like he didn't even believe it anymore. He seemed to be tired of saying the same thing.

Andrew Dominik

We fail to continue to talk to, to court, to engage our voters. And then we look up and expect our nominees to look up and go from 0 to 100 in a matter of two months to try to secure a victory.

Andrew Gillum

Events in America show the extent to which democracy there is fuelled by populism - Barack Obama's victory is a manifestation not of Washington's need for change, but of America's. That is not how democracy works in England.

Andrew O'Hagan

What is important is the victory of the people, not of a candidate. We must unite for the good of Madagascar's people, and we are going to succeed.

Andry Rajoelina

From Nike, we buy victory. From Under Armour, we buy protection. From Lululemon, we buy zen. From Patagonia, we buy conservation. From BMW, we buy performance.

Andy Dunn

Supporting any team has its ups and downs. But being part of a united team on the brink of victory, is the only way we're going to change the country for the better.

Angela Rayner

It took 15 years and a Labour government to finally see Section 28 taken off the statute books. But this victory belongs to the LGBT+ activists who campaigned for so many years, fighting for change from the ground up.

Angela Rayner

I certainly had times when I thought this wasn't going to work out, but just being a working actor felt like a victory.

Anna Gunn

The fight ended. For both was victory. For both there was defeat.

Anna Wickham

If we can actually decrease the failure rate from nine out of 10 drugs failing in clinical trials and instead have seven out of 10 instead failing, that is a major victory for drug discovery and for people having better therapy.

Anne Wojcicki

After a casual listen, it might be easy to lump Rocky Votolato in with the downtrodden likes of Conor Oberst and Elliott Smith. But his songwriting is a bit more triumphant than theirs: Votolato would rather pull himself out of a gutter than wallow in it, focusing instead on the victory before the misery.

Anthony Fantano

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

Anthony Hamilton

U.S. stocks did not recoil from Trump's electoral victory, instead setting a record for election-to-year-end gains.

Anthony Scaramucci

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery