Quotes About Defeat

That's football. Sometimes luck swings your way and sometimes it doesn't.

God made them as stubble to our swords.

According to the FBI and the director of national intelligence, Syria's becoming a perfect platform to strike our nation. I've got a very simple strategy as your president against ISIL. Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defeat them.

If the Islamic State is losing, if they are defeated in Iraq and Syria, or in Libya, which is maybe their most dangerous and most well-developed cell today, then they won't inspire nearly so many attacks.

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

Embraces do not matter; they merely indicate the will to love and may as well be followed by defeat as victory. But disregard means that now there needs to be no straining of the eyes, no stretching forth of the hands, no pressing of the lips, because theirs is such a union that they are no longer aware of the division of their flesh.

I can't stand these guys who go into a game and can't wait to shake hands when the game is over, you know, nice game, all that.... For me, back in those days, when we lost, we got out of there. We're not congratulating them, we're figuring out, if we play them again, what are we gonna do to beat the hell out of them.

Pamela looked at his retreating back with admiration. He represented the backbone of Britain at this moment. A skinny, awkward bookworm, yet determined to keep going for as long as it took to defeat Hitler.

De pronto vivir sea ser derrotado, más temprano que tarde, por los lugares comunes: el duelo y la redención, el amor y la muerte

Those who do not see the truth in battle march willingly to defeat.

It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated.

Those who do not see the truth in battle march willingly to defeat," grunted

It was a rare and therefore heartening event in a China that had become perhaps not inured to defeat but well acquainted with it, and with the human devastation that it brought with it.

Some you win and some you lose. Be glad when you win. Don't have regrets when you lose.

No amount of reasonable threats prevailed.

Maybe this was the unstated purpose of education, to get young people to see the world through the tired eyes of age: disappointment and exhaustion and defeat masquerading as wisdom.

Coffin studied him for a long beat, then said, "Shit, Lincoln. I just lost an argument, didn't I." "I believe you did, yes." "And now you're all proud of yourself.

The contest is a lion fight. So chin up, put your shoulders back, walk proud, strut a little. Don't lick your wounds. Celebrate them. The scars you bear are the sign of a competitor. You're in a lion's fight. Just because you didn't win doesn't mean you don't know how to roar.

You can't make me do nothing but die!

the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience.

He had been defeated by that which he had sought to destroy.

An organic wish to cease to be, to stop living, seized him. Either he was too weak, or the world was too strong; he did not know which. Over and over he had tried to create a world to live in, and over and over he had failed.

organic wish to cease to be, to stop living, seized him. Either he was too weak, or the world was too strong; he did not know which. Over and over he had tried to create a world to live in, and over and over he had failed.

Esta foi assim a última lição que Francisca me ensinou: que eu, John Zarco, não tinha qualquer poder mágico. Não havia canções de amor suficientemente poderosas para derrotar a morte. Todas as coisas mais importantes estavam fora do nosso controlo.