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Quotes About Defeating

My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
~ Isaac Newton
There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.
~ Arlen Specter
The parties of the left joined together in a coalition called the Unidad Popular, which included the Communist Party. The United States was alarmed despite the results of polls giving the victory to the right, and it designated several million dollars for defeating Allende.
~ Isabel Allende
The Republican Party clearly is not interested in winning. And if you want to be even more specific than that, it is paramountly obvious that they're not even interested in defeating the Democrats.
~ Rush Limbaugh
But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.
~ Tom Robbins
Plants and animals are even more comfortable with death. It is the natural end. But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.
~ Tom Robbins
Mallory took no great pride in this, for defeating the FBI's outdated system was a rite of passage for small children all over America.
~ Carol O'Connell
They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.
~ John Boehner
There is no honor in defeating the vampire. it is merely a job, Kirja. Well you know the truth of that. Whether it takes one hunter or ten makes no difference. We mete out justice according to the law.
~ Christine Feehan
I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.
~ Gerrit Smith
I think defeating Fox - and more importantly, getting the rest of the media to understand they do not do legitimate news - is very important. I hope to do that through pointing out their hypocrisy, propaganda, and general foolishness. But I also plan to beat them in the ratings and make them fear me.
~ Cenk Uygur
God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.
~ S. D Gordon
In my view, airstrikes without an effective ground force are unlikely to make any meaningful contribution to defeating Isis.
~ Keir Starmer
Every ounce of resources in our state should be focused on defeating the hidden enemy we all have in common: COVID-19.
~ Jeff Van Drew
President-elect Donald Trump says he's looking for a simple plan for defeating ISIS within his first 30 days of taking office. But even as ISIS has suffered setbacks in Iraq and Syria, its violent ideology continues to spread.
~ John Dickerson
But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.
~ Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
If we are committed to discerning, then defeating, the contemporary logic of racism, we must separate it from its ties to democracy itself. In order to be true patriots, we must become disloyal to chronically prejudiced views of American society that persist in our rather ignoble Trumpian moment.
~ Michael Eric Dyson
And what if Israel's God had done in person, in the person of this man, what he said he would do, defeating death itself and launching his new creation?
~ Unknown
But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
If we set out to serve God and do His work but get out of touch with Him, the sense of responsibility we feel will be overwhelming and defeating
~ Oswald Chambers
As aspiring "winners" in recovery, we are not interested in defeating anyone. Or even in fighting. We have ceased fighting anything or anyone.10 Our interest lies in creating harmonious interpersonal relationships, in making potentially distressing situations better and in being peacemakers.
~ Unknown