Quotes About Defeated

As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words left to say.

Flurries of snow obscured the view through the windows, but they were halfhearted and ultimately inconsequential, like the parting shots of a defeated army. Angel

On military battlefields, we have defeated radical Islamic forces every time we have seriously gone after them, from Iraq to Afghanistan.

You think I'm defeated. You think you've passed your judgement and that's the end of it. Oh, you think it's as simple as that. Well you are wrong. I shall never have vengeance for this moment, but you will see me again. You will see me again.

If your team is filled with people who work for the company, you'll soon be defeated by tribes of people who work for a cause.

A Bolshevik-sponsored resolution to renounce the Constituent Assembly's legislative powers was voted upon and defeated, with every Bolshevik deputy voting in favor. The Bolsheviks then staged a walkout

Era el suyo el aire inequívoco del derrotado antes de la batalla; de quien cada día abre los ojos y se despierta vencido.

In order to get re-elected, Obama told us Al Qaeda was on the run and all but defeated.

The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.

I said he had called them because it was from his mind that we drew them, seeking those who hated him, or at least had reason to. The giant you saw might have mastered the Commonwealth, had Severian not defeated him. The blond woman could not forgive him for bringing her back from death.

America has historically met the challenges to its national security with decisive actions that defeated or, at a minimum, contained the threat.

I think the only mascot that truly defeated me was Grizz of the Memphis Grizzlies. He threw a 'Kick Me' sign on my back. I thought he was extending an olive branch... he blindsided me.

T]he public interest, as is too frequently the case, was defeated by private influence.

Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.

And more than that, she just looked… tired. Like she'd battled the world and the world had won.

A jolly future! Henri closed his eyes. From Vassieux to Hiroshima – they had gone a long way in a single year. The next war would really be something! And the next post-war period, that would be even neater than this one! That is, if there is a next post-war period – if the defeated don't take it into their heads to blow up the world.

Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten

History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.

There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.

They justify themselves with their inability; and the design and end of the law, as a school-master to fit them for Christ, is defeated.

Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.

Transhumanists are not fond of death. We would stop it if we could. To this end, we support research that holds out hope of a future in which humanity has defeated death.

Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.

Every day I feel more like some defeated matador limping out of the arena after I've been gored, or like some general coming back from a long battle.