Quotes About Defeat

The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

As you will recall, soon after the 9/11 attacks, an international coalition led by the United States conducted an impressive campaign to defeat the Taliban, al Qaeda, and other associated extremist groups in Afghanistan.

Defeat the Taliban. Secure the population.

You can have all the stats in the world, but if you're losing, you're probably not going to get talked about. Probably will, but not in a good way.

Isn't this your life? That ancient kiss still burning out your eyes? Isn't this defeat so accurate, the church bell simply seems a pure announcement: ring and no one comes? Don't empty houses ring? Are magnesium and scorn sufficient to support a town, not just Philipsburg, but towns of towering blondes, good jazz and booze the world will never let you have until the town you came from dies inside?

If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.

Abandon all hope ye who piss me off.

I got my ass kicked by some third-rate spooks and now my nice kitchen looks like a drunk brontosaurus tried to fuck the dishwasher.

If I'm going to ride this out and stay alive, then I'm king high ballbuster. I took on God and almost did the old man in. A few grumpy horns and hoofs types and a petting zoo full of rabid Pokemons? I'm Satan. I can deal that and play "Smoke on the Water" while getting a lap dance on a runaway train all at the same time.

As sweet as it feels, I can't lie here forever curled up in a big ball of fuck-the-world.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Great Carthage drove three wars. After the first one it was still powerful. After the second one it was still inhabitable. After the third one it was no longer possible to find her.

Losing is better then winning if you have to kill yourself in order to win

I would say that I was without faith, but no one is truly faithless; they just have faith in the wrong things: fear and defeat.

It's easy to hate the game when your losing.

I've Never Cared Much For Mondays. If I were the king of the world, I'd have Mondays removed from the calendar. Of course the problem is that Tuesday would become the new Monday, which would defeat the purpose.

not only did Horace Greeley, in less than a month's time, lose his wife, the election, his money, his mind, and his own life, but he also became the only presidential candidate of a major political party to receive no electoral votes.

I wanted to hurt you but the victory is that I could not stomach it.

People get hurt here. People fall down and stay down and I don't like the way the song goes.

we laugh and it pits the world against us, we laugh, and we've got nothing left to lose

People fall down and stay down