Quotes About Defeat

If a dominant lobster is badly defeated, its brain basically dissolves. Then it grows a new, subordinate's brain—one more appropriate to its new, lowly position. 8 Its original brain just isn't sophisticated to manage the transformation from king to bottom dog without virtually complete dissolution and regrowth. Anyone who has experienced a painful transformation after a serious defeat in romance or career may feel some sense of kinship with the once successful crustacean.

A defeated wolf, for example, will roll over on its back, exposing its throat to the victor, who will not then deign to tear it out.

He who contrives, defeats his purpose; and he who is grasping, loses. The sage does not contrive to win, and therefore is not defeated; he is not grasping, so does not lose.138

He who contrives, defeats his purpose; and he who is grasping, loses. The sage does not contrive to win, and therefore is not defeated; he is not grasping, so does not lose.

who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Salvo una batalla perdida, no hay nada más deprimente que una batalla ganada».

fue una de las raras batallas en que los muertos victoriosos tienen peor entierro que los vencidos

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.

To fall with the head high and the brow serene is not to fall. It is to triumph. The sad thing is to fall with the stain of dishonor.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.

failed. I'm weary—weary

How can it hope to defeat me? I am Grimalkin.

Dave frowned. "You`re telling me about a failure. What happened?

Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.

Hi. Thx for this. No idea. Sorry. L——, Your inquiry defeats me grammatically. Cheers.

Was hätte es schließlich genützt, die "ultimative Waffe" abzuwerfen und dann nicht einmal den Anruf des kapitulierenden Feindes entgegennehmen zu können?

the Blood and the Blood from the Body. In what other way, in fact, would it be possible to represent the bloody Sacrifice through the Consecration? Hence our oppo nents defeat themselves with their own weapons when they deny that the separation of the Blood from the Body is a result of the words of Consecration.

A longstanding tradition in action games, and many other genres as well, calls for the inclusion of a boss to defeat at the end of the level: a particularly difficult challenge. Victory, and the end of the level, reward the player for defeating the boss, and this sometimes includes a cache of resources or treasure as well.

That's how you know you've mastered a videogame—when a bunch of butt-hurt crybabies start to accuse you of cheating in an effort to cope with the beatdown they've just suffered at your hands.

mouthed the lyrics to the Queen song playing on my headset as I blasted one Glaive after another right out of the sky. And another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the

my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.