Quotes About Defeat

Most will regret opening up the doors to truth, while others will cower at thought of living an illusion. In the end, does impracticality defeat curiosity?

Not that she didn't about fighting losing battles.

And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.

People have misconstrued the pessimism and anger in our songs," Mould protested. "We're really the opposite of all that; we're not callous, insensitive people. But we're frustrated by the fact that most people seem to end up that way—hopeless, defeated. We're afraid of ending up that way ourselves, and that fear comes out in our songs.

The Browns were holding a council of war in the dining room, and Mr. Brown was fighting a losing battle.

My story and my stories are all, in one or another, the same, tales of solitude and the grand pursuit of connection, of success and the inevitability of defeat.

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No,' said Bastian, still looking down. 'I was put back last year.' 'Good Lord!' cried Mr Coreander. 'A failure all along the line.

Losing shouldn't be fun. It's not fun for me. If I'm going to be miserable, you're going to be miserable.

She lost her fury. He'd had none. That's how you win, in the end.

You shouldn't say mean things to people before they kill you. It's being a sore loser.

Arioch!" swore Elric, suddenly recognizing the riders. "These are the Lords of Dharzi—dead these ten centuries. We're fighting dead men, Moonglum, and the too-tangible ghosts of their dogs. Unless I can think of a sorcerous means to defeat them, we're doomed!

Goodbye, Queen. You have lost your champion now." I jumped. I landed in a rosebush that ripped at my skin

I can think of no better way to say it—those final holes played me.

The bottom line is that Daesh's defeat requires not just hammering them on the battlefield but, simultaneously, revived political reconciliation with Sunnis.

Like Sir Alex Ferguson, I was so used to winning that I couldn't get used to the idea of losing.

I love playing football but I am like everyone else, I hate losing and love winning.

And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.

If you cannot put the ego on the side you cannot succeed in love, period. Therefore love must defeat it.

When I lose, it doesn't just go to my head; it goes to my heart too. If you're at all in the match, if you love to play and ein, it must go to your heart.

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

There was nothing more to say. Her happy plan had come to nothing.

and let's face it, the French Army couldn't beat a girls hockey team

Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage.