Quotes About Defeat

Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled.

I survive all those battles, she growled, and I get defeated by a stupid chunk of rock!

Doughboy, I said. What is this scroll? A spell lost in time! he pronounced. Ancient words of tremendous power! Well? I demanded. Does it tell how to defeat Set? Better! The title reads: The Book of Summoning Fruit Bats!

Ask me again, once we defeat Gaea.

How do I defeat Apophis?" "I'm so glad you asked!" Thoth beamed at me with his multicolored eyes. "Unfortunately, I can't tell you." I glanced at Walt. "Do you want to kill him, or should I?

Leo tried to remember what had happened. He was pretty sure he had defeated Gaia…

Die, I repeated. Yeah. Not disappear, not wouldn't come back, not suffer defeat. Nope. Die. Or more accurately, three letters, starts with D. Not dad then, I suggested. Or dog.

Even the bravest can fall.

Teddy tried, in the manner of a simple layman, to keep up with theoretical physics, via articles in the Telegraph and an heroic struggle with Stephen Hawking in 1996, but admitted defeat when he came across string theory. From then on he took every day as it came, hour by hour.

Didn't you hear, Jackson?" Julia said. "The class war's over. Everyone lost.")

Go ahead, Marlene, thought Edward. Push me around. Do with me as you will. What does it matter? I am broken. Broken.

Drive them out utterly, so they may never return and prey upon our people.

That's what war was. A great motion and then a great stillness in which the winner crouches and the loser lies facing the sky.

That's what war was. A great motion and then a great stillness in which the winner crouches and the loser lies facing the sky.

Weak Forces I enjoy an accumulating faith in weak forces-- a weak faith, of course, easily shaken, but also easily regained--in what starts to drift: all the slow untrainings of the mind, the sift left of resolve sustained too long, the strange internal shift by which there's no knowing if this is the raod taken or untaken. There are soft affinities, possibly electrical; lint-like congeries; moonlit hints; asymmetrical pink glowy spots that are no the defeat of something, I don't think.

It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up.

Era como tener que resolver un problema de matemáticas cuando tienes la mente exhausta, y sabes que existe una solución remota pero no puedes reunir la energía suficiente para tratar de dar con ella. Algo en mí tiró la toalla.

The game's sealed when a player gives up having any strategy at all.

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

Mi vida ha sido un fracaso —dijo Walter—. Aquí acaban todas las esperanzas. La democracia alemana ha muerto.

All the same he was depressed and bitter. Life never dealt him a winning hand.

la piedad de sus enemigos era la peor de las humillaciones.

A man who loses a battle with his king may be forgiven, but a man who wins such a battle is doomed.

There's no doubt in my mind that McMurphy's won, but I'm not sure what.