History Quotes / XanatosGambit

->''Find out your true goal, then find paths to it.''

-->'''Admiral Thrawn''', ''TheThrawnTrilogy''

->''"Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design."''
->-- '''Emperor Palpatine''', ''StarWars Episode VI: [[ReturnOfTheJedi Return of the Jedi]]''

->"[N]o plan ever survives contact with the enemy, as the saying goes. Well, no enemy is going to survive contact with this plan."
-->'''Harry Johnson''', ''TopDog''

-->-- '''General Tarquin''', ''{{Order of the Stick}}''

-->-- '''General Tarquin''', ''TheOrderOfTheStick''

->Excatly. Which means that when we're finaly ready to draw the Coruscants section fleet into ambush, Mrisst will be the perfect lure. If the attack, we'll defeat them. If the sense the trap and pull back, we'll have our forward base. Eitehr way, we'll win.

Excatly. Which means that when we're finaly ready to draw the Coruscants section fleet into ambush, Mrisst will be the perfect lure. If the attack, we'll defeat them. If the sense the trap and pull back, we'll have our forward base. Eitehr way, we'll win.
-->'''Admiral Thrawn''', ''ThrawnTrilogy''

-->-- '''Iago,''' ''{{Othello}}''

-->-- '''Iago,''' ''{{Othello}}''

->"''...the skillful fighter puts himself into a position which makes defeat impossible, and does not miss the moment for defeating the enemy. Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won.''"
-->--'''Sun Tzu''', ''TheArtOfWar''

-->-- '''Iago,''' ''{{Othello}}''

->''The Defense Professor sighed. "In your future career, Mr. Zabini, I do not suggest trying any plots that complicated. They have a tendency to fail."''\\

->''"Um, I said that to the Headmaster, actually," Blaise said, "and he said that was why it was important to have more than one plot going at a time."''
-->--'''''HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'''''

->-- '''Ra's Al Ghul''', "Off Balance" ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''

->-- '''Black Mage''', ''EightBitTheatre''.

->'''Norman Osborn:''' Something occurs to me -- either Spider-Man is destroyed, or you get Oscorp. Whatever happens, ''[[HeadsIWinTailsYouLose you win]]''.
->'''Kingpin:''' That's why ''I'm'' the Kingpin.

->-- '''Fortunato''', ''VoidDogs''

->'''HEATH LEDGER'''
->That's nothing, because MY plan included everything in your plan, but also some other stuff that gives me the upper hand after all!
->--[[http://www.the-editing-room.com/thedarkknight.html The Dark Knight: The Abridged Script]]

->-- Matthew Sforcina, ''[[http://tinyurl.com/6czq75 Evolution Schematic: The Undertaker, Part 3]]''

->-- '''Emperor Palpatine''', ''StarWars Episode VI: [[ReturnOfTheJedi Return of the Jedi]]''.

-->--'''Sun Tzu''', ''TheArtOfWar''

-->'''Harry Johnson''', ''TopDog''

->-- ''{{Spider Man The Animated Series}}'', "The Spider Slayer"

-->Harry Johnson, ''TopDog''

-->-- '''General Tarquin''', ''TheOrderOfTheStick''

->''"Their every move makes my victory more complete!"''

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->The Defense Professor sighed. "In your future career, Mr. Zabini, I do not suggest trying any plots that complicated. They have a tendency to fail."\\

->"Um, I said that to the Headmaster, actually," Blaise said, "and he said that was why it was important to have more than one plot going at a time."

-> Littlefinger stroked the neat spike of his beard. "Lysa has woes of her own. Clansmen raiding out of the Mountains of the Moon, in greater numbers than ever before... and better armed."

->''"Someone who only wins when he’s dealt a great hand of cards is a fool, not a gambler."''

->That’s nothing, because MY plan included everything in your plan, but also some other stuff that gives me the upper hand after all!

-> Littlefinger stroked the neat spike of his beard. “Lysa has woes of her own. Clansmen raiding out of the Mountains of the Moon, in greater numbers than ever before . . . and better armed.”

-> “Distressing,” said Tyrion Lannister, who had armed them. “I could help her with that. A word from me . . .”

-->-- '''Mozenrath''', ''{{Disney/Aladdin}} Aladdin]]''

-->-- '''Mozenrath''', ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Disney/Aladdin Aladdin]]''

->"''The key to strategy...is not to choose '''a''' path to victory, but to choose so that '''all''' paths lead to '''a''' victory.''"
-->-- '''Cavilo''', ''[[VorkosiganSaga The Vor Game]]''

->''"Sometimes, the only way to win... is to lose."''
->-- '''Makuta Teridax''', ''{{Bionicle}}''