Quotes About Defeat

Lothaire traced in front of her, clenching his fists so hard blood began to drip from them. "The sorceress had a dozen Wendigo guards that I defeated." "I don't know what a Wendigo is. Could be a Lore bunny. But it sounds like you consider that feat a big deal.

The only way you can conquer me is through love and there I am gladly conquered

People allow themselves to be defeated

My devil is winning.

It is useless to fight people with shooting heads; no one can withstand them.

1I smiled bitterly, a defeated man pitifully begging a God in whom he had never trusted.

Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.

People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

To be forgotten was a defeat. To be doomed to remember someone was a defeat, too.

Sadness is a helpless garrison against the blindness of tragedy.

The mass and majesty of this world, all That carries weight and always weighs the same Lay in the hands of others; they were small And could not hope for help and no help came: What their foes liked to do was done, their shame Was all the worst could wish; they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died. —W. H. AUDEN, "THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES

Let us not be defeated by our fears before we are defeated by the enemy.

She had been defeated by herself alone, and the sadness of it left a dark shadow in her heart. It further sapped her confidence and left her ever more withdrawn, ever more capable of suppressing her feelings. Like her roughened hands, her sensitivity was slowly being hardened, and she drew relief from the numbness creeping through her.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.

Unhappiness and misfortune attend those who are voluntarily feeble. "Their defect deprived them of the joy derived from happy efforts. They will be the prey of duplicity and untruth. "They are the vanquished in life, and scarcely deserve the pity of the conqueror; for their defeat lacks grandeur, since it has never been aurioled by the majestic strength of conflict.

Celui que l'idée de la victoire hante réduit lui-même à néant ses capacités.

We had two field goals and a touchdown and they had five field goals. So ... for us, to lose to a team kicking five field goals was like --? that was an extra slap in the face. It was like, it was the Giants, No. 1. No. 2, it was our three-peat. No. 3, we fumbled with it kind of in our hands. And we got beat by five field goals. It was rough to say the least.

Damn, even that trash rolls better than me . . .

Bir amip olsaydim,surekli bolunebilir bir tek hucreli olsaydim,cirkinligi yenerdim,diye dusundu. Oysa insan hicbir seyi yenebilecek oranda buyuk veya kucuk degildi.

An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.

THE ANCIENT ROMANS WERE USED TO being defeated. Like the rulers of most of history's great empires, they could lose battle after battle but still win the war.

Above all, if we want to combat terrorism effectively, we must realize that nothing the terrorists do can defeat us. We are the only ones who can defeat ourselves, if we overreact in a misguided way to their provocations.

nothing the terrorists do can defeat us. We are the only ones who can defeat ourselves, if we overreact in a misguided way to their provocations.