These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in…

Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in an old…

— Janet Fitch

The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.

— Megan Whalen Turner

Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by…

— Albert Pike

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

— Daniel Defoe

“the words were like gunpowder blasts, sparking me into thought and action.”

— Kailin Gow

Another victory like that and we are done for.

— Pyrrhus of Epirus

The 'victim to victory' theory is that, if you listen to the radio, a large percentage of the hits are... about victim to victory,…

— Sia

“Victory, is like a boxer that hangs his gloves, after the consecutive losses; sometimes walking away is what builds character, than the actual fight.…

— Anthony Liccione

'Victory' is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It's just…

— Nipsey Hussle

“Ethan felt a tiny ripple of victory, like he’d scored a blow against a tornado.”

— Heidi Cullinan

Chase down your victory like it's the last bus of the night.

— Anonymous

“What if the poem loses? What if it never tastes victory like the intent it was written with?”

— Akif Kichloo

“He was flooded with power - power like pain. When it rises beyond any possible point of pleasure - like victory. Like defeat, like…

— Miles Cameron

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a…

— Anonymous

The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing…

— Carl von Clausewitz