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Quotes About Defeated

Lynet gasped, as if utterly astonished. She could feel Gaheris's eyes on her, but she did not look at him. "But ... Sir Wozzell ... that was the name of the knight you defeated the other night, Sir Gareth!" Lynet declared.
~ Gerald Morris
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
~ Sophia Loren
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
~ Henry Fielding
You need community support. You're pretty defeated when you're laid low with a mental illness. It's a frightening place to be, and to get up and be able to stand and to move forward and to start functioning again, you need so much support. You need to feel you're not alone.
~ Margaret Trudeau
During the years of suffering he reachd the conclusion that life was war in which he was one of the defeated. Hatred was his onlt weapon, and he resolved to sharpen it in prison and carry it with him when he left.
~ Victor Hugo
to take State 123 and wind up in the Potomac River. He ignored directions to take US 495—which is really US 95 and bypasses Washington entirely. He even defeated the conspiracy to confuse the public on US 29 to believe they were on US 50. He steadfastly rolled along on US 29, even untangled the
~ L. Ron Hubbard
A life filled with excuses is defeated, unproductive, and miserable.
~ Stephanie Lahart
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.
~ Isabel Allende
When I first ran for governor... I had to stand up for segregation or be defeated, but I never insulted black people by calling them inferior.
~ George Wallace
you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus! Then satan will have lost his foothold of accusation. He is defeated when you understand what your righteousness really means.
~ Terry Law
crime of war" is a criminal activity of which the defeated enemies, but not the victors, are guilty.
~ Noam Chomsky
Wait. Wait. Mackensie? The redhead you had a crush on in high school?" Defeated, Carter rubbed the spot between his eyebrows again. "I should never have told you about that. This is why I rarely drink." "But, Cart, this is like kismet." Excitement rushed through the words. "It's like return of the nerd. It's the big chance to follow up on a lost opportunity." "It's coffee," Carter muttered.
~ Nora Roberts
But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.
~ Charles Dickens
Even in collapse, Byzantines maintained such resentment against Rome that they actually came to feel it was better to be defeated by the Muslim Turks than by the Christian Latins.
~ Graham E. Fuller
Racism in the stadiums must be defeated, but to succeed, even before the laws of sport, those of the State will be needed, deterrents that help to curb these unhealthy habits.
~ Kalidou Koulibaly
Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.
~ Storm Jameson
I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.
~ Benjamin Harrison
If we hadn't broken every single WHO rule many times over, we would never have defeated samllpox. Never. - Arita, leader of smallpox eradication effort
~ Laurie Garrett
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.
~ Lawrence Durrell
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.
~ Seth
It is well known how hard it is to provide a benign order within human means. For the problem, once again, is in the human heart. Until it fully engages with the rule of God, the good that we feel must be cannot come. It will at a certain point be defeated by the very means implemented to produce it.
~ Dallas Willard
Estaba abrumado, sitiado, asediado. Derrotado. Por el hombre de negro.
~ William Goldman
most of the regime's practices, whether via direct repression or the punitive dimension which autarky inserted into everyday life, can be encapsulated as teaching the defeated the meaning of their defeat.15
~ Helen Graham
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
~ Henry Fielding