Victim Quotes

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.

It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.

What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!

And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.

I don't want to be a victim.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.

If she was a victim of any kind, she was a victim of her friends.

I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran out of Andy Stern ideas.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.

If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.

You can definitely become a victim and let people completely destroy your life.

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture.

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.

His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.

The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.

There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.

Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a victim, has been chased away by your brochure, or will yet be eradicated by it.