Quotes About Defeat

Mevary's obvious attempt to catch him flabbily and disadvantageously in the nude had failed.

I once thought I defeated the evil in my heart. I learned something: We can face our demons, burn them up, stomp them into the ground. I turned mine to ashes. But even if you destroy the evidence of evil, you can't heal your heart. Not by yourself.

He caught himself. These were the Shataiki. Vermin. They were meant to be beaten, not coddled. But, as the histories had so eloquently recorded, to defeat your enemy you must know him. He would speak to the big beautiful one only. And he would pretend to be a friend. In this way he would outwit the creature by learning his weaknesses, then return one day and be rid of him. And he would do it holding the colored wood.

Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.

Excellent," Colin said. "In that case, Miss Sheffield is our winner, and Anthony, you are our loser.

I knew right then and there nothing was ever going to change. It wouldn't matter if I was tall or short or fat or thin or absent every day. I was a loser from birth.

I can live with the misery of the defeats. It's the hope I can't handle.

They'd won a lot of admirers that season but finished up with nothing. You can't put applause in a trophy cabinet.

Mira, sólo hay un medio para matar los monstruos; aceptarlos.

Parecía especializarse en causas perdidas. Perderlas primero y después largarse atrás como un loco.

A cada sucesiva derrota hay un acercamiento a la mutación final, y que el hombre no es sino que busca ser, proyecta ser, manoteando entre palabras y conducta y alegría salpicada de sangre y otras retóricas como esta.

For my part, I wonder whether someday I will ever succeed in making it felt that the true character and the only one that interests me is the reader, to the degree in which something of what I write ought to contribute to his mutation, displacement, alienation, transportation." In spite of the tacit confession of defeat in the last sentence, Ronald found a presumption in the note that displeased him. (–18)

porque el reposo es eufemismo de derrota, y el sueño máscara de una nada metida en cada poro de la vida [...]

Qué es la tragedia? Una inmensa, atronadora puteada contra Zeus.

Our runaways may well be the backbone courageous among our kids: the ones who will risk hunger and forced prostitution and jail and death, in order to say NO to this overwhelming suffocation and victimizing, adult defeat into which they have been trapped, by dint of being born.

Al fin y al cabo, al éxito le encanta tener testigos, pero el fracaso no puede existir sin ellos

It was as if I'd lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing, and there was simply nothing to be dine about it.

War is an admission of failure

If there's one truth in this life, it's that you simply can't win. The most you can achieve is to make a nuisance of yourself, for a very short time.

I gather you play chess, he'd said, and she'd given him a look, later he'd ralised it was fair warning; yes, she played chess. The had a mignificent coral and ivory set, worth a thousand acres of good arable land. He'd made soft opening, the way you do when you're playing a girl, and suddenly he found himself staring defeat in the facs - he'd never los a game except three times, to Senza.

One of our teachers in the early days of our Path said that one of the things not allowed of the dervish is fear. We cannot afford to be defeated by our fears. We may experience some really rough times so that we can come to know this. The rough times are a gift too. Everything can become a good. Sin can lead to virtue and fear can lead to something beyond fear. The truth is that everything ultimately is a mercy. (p. 9)

Oppenheimer's defeat was also a defeat for American liberalism.

Oooh! A real hero! I haven't squashed one in years.

I'm gonna kick your miserable ass, God!