[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.
All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.
Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.
If you're a victim, you're always mad, but never at yourself. You're mad at somebody else.
Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.
I think very frequently, musicians become a victim of every song they sing. I like all kinds of recreation. It's aggressive. I want to be part of everything.
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
A vampire victim. I'd never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips; once a vamp tasted them, he couldn't stop at just one.
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
I was not a young fashion victim. I really had an idea of what I liked in fashion and how I dressed.
Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining.
I think handbags, not so much clothes anymore, but I think you can tell a fashion victim by their handbag.
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.
The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.
It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.
Nobody with a victim mentality will get anywhere. Ever. They will never succeed.
I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.
I am not a big fan of politicians turning tragedy into opportunity, but I believe that which politician a victim's family wants to meet is entirely their decision.
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
The world of marketing has changed. You can lead the change or be a victim of change.
I'm actually more comfortable playing the stroke victim or the girl with no makeup on, looking scruffy and it's all about what's going on inside rather than on the outside.
You can never be free from limitation until you are willing to recognize that you and you alone are responsible for what you are. After you have passed infancy you are not a victim of anything but your own thinking.
As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.
You know it doesn’t work that way, T. I have to be touching the body or something that belonged to the victim. Photos only give me a paper cut…and the willies. (Simone)
If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.
Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.
Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances.
Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
I'm like a lion - I roar. If someone betrays me, I won't be a victim. I don't sulk, I get angry.
I go immediately into retaliation. But it always comes from insecurity or pain.
Once she'd been a victim- helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior.
Of all the things I feel, I do not feel myself to be a victim - not in any collectively accessible way.
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
Is it exploitative to get the victim of an unimaginably horrific crime to talk on my show 'Crime Stories?' No, it's crucial.
I think that even the Mexican society is a victim of all of this, of these crimes of "cleaning" people, of discarding people.
Martin Luther King was a victim of surveillance, and had great solidarity with victims of surveillance.
Being a victim is almost as easy as being a liberal. It's one of the most gutless choices you could make.
All those little acting rules you get, one of the interesting ones is, 'Play the opposite. Don't play 'victim.'
He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.
It is true that a victim who fights back may suffer for it, but one who does not almost certainly will suffer for it.
The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.
If you believe you are an effect of the world around you - that your happiness is dependent on this thing or that person - then you are always going to be a victim of circumstance to one degree or another.
Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency and tolerance are lost.
ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Don't take a job because your mother wants you to. Don't be a victim. You own your decision.
I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another
We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.
You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.
From the point of view of art, the butcher and the victim are equal as people. You need to see the people.
I'm very proud of Arizona as being a leader. They're tired of being a victim.
The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.
One is not the victim of mentation but instead is the very originator by virtue of intention to extract projected value. With this understanding, one is free from being dominated by the false "I" of the experiencer.
I understand that it's incredibly difficult to watch what's happening on the news every day and not become inured to it. I've fallen victim to that myself, wanting to look away.
Tim was dead. And he's always been a loser. I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.
I haven't seen American Sniper, but correct me if I'm wrong: An occupier mows down faceless Iraqis but the real victim is his anguished soul.
When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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