Quotes About Defeat

If I met you in a scissor fight, I'd cut off both your wings on principle alone.

All who oppose me must be broken!

The prince raised his head. "I will never serve you. You have defeated me, but you will never own me." He owed these words to those who had died for him. He owed the words to himself. To be destroyed was one thing. At least he had not surrendered.

We actually killed the thing." "Sad, I know," she said, feeling depressed. "It was beautiful." "It would be more beautiful if it hadn't tried to eat me." "From my perspective," Shallan noted, "it didn't try, it succeeded." "Nonsense," Kaladin said. "It didn't manage to swallow me. Doesn't count.

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.

I've seen Steelheart bleed. And I will see him bleed again.

The life of a person is more than the chaos of its passing. Emotion, Ruin. This is your defeat.

Kelsier glanced down at his hands and forearms. They still burned sometimes, though he was certain the pain was only in his mind. He looked up at Mennis and smiled. "You ask why I smile, Goodman Mennis? Well, the Lord Ruler thinks he has claimed laughter and joy for himself. I'm disinclined to let him do so. This is one battle that doesn't take very much effort to fight.

I imagined those broken rocks as the broken bodies of my enemies, their bones shattered, their trembling arms reaching upward in a useless gesture of total and complete defeat. I was a very odd little girl.

The less we see chaos, and the more we see the pattern , the better we're going to be at understanding just what we fight -- and just how to defeat it.

If we cannot defeat the assassin, then we must remove his reason for attacking. If we can capture or eliminate his employers, then perhaps we can invalidate whatever contract binds him. Last we knew, he was employed by the Parshendi." "Great," Ruthar said dryly. "All we have to do is win the war, which we've only been trying to do for five years.

The strong lines of the woman's face bespoke hard-won wisdom and courage, and somehow that made watching her more difficult. If such a woman could be defeated by Elantris, what hope was there for Raoden?

Truth can never be defeated, Sarene. Even if people do forget about it occasionally.

Pride doesn't win battles.

I looked at Hurl's lacerated face, her one remaining eye staring ahead. Defiant until the end, for all the good it had done. Brave . . . cowardly . . . she was still dead, so what did it matter?

I felt hollowed out. Empty. Not afraid, of course. I bathed in fires of destruction and reveled in the screams of the defeated. I didn't get afraid. But maybe, deep down, I was…worried.

This is the thing I fight. This is the monster I must defeat. I fear that I have taken too long. Already, so much destruction has occurred that I fear for mankind's survival. Is this truly the end of the world, as many of the philosophers predict?

You will not distract me from my current purpose, adversary. Though you have fought admirably, I will defeat you, then compose poetry for your funeral." "This…um…isn't to the death, Hesho." "I will defeat you," he said in the same exact tone, "and compose poetry for your retirement party.

The enemy thinks he's won. But I want to see his face when he realizes the truth. Don't you? It's going to be delightful.

The life of a person is more than the chaos of it's passing. Emotion, Ruin. This is your defeat.

I told you that if you are going to do something, son. You need to do it with all of your heart. You have something you didn't have before. Hope. You've defeated one of them. They can be beaten.

Sangre. El hedor de los cuerpos ardiendo. Al final, la derrota y la victoria tenían el mismo olor. Pero sonaban distinto.

Defiant to the end. For all the good it had done

fate was on your side, even when an omen tried to darken the way. You could always defeat gloomy Passions with optimism and determination.