Defeat Quotes - page 30

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. (Steven Wright)
The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney. View quote
Ted Cruz
We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorists as long as we have a president [Barack Obama] unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorists'. View quote
Ted Cruz
You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections. View quote
Bill James
But has the last word been said? Must hope disappear? Is defeat final? No! View quote
Charles de Gaulle
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. View quote
Jared Diamond
A republic founded on equality for all became a prison for millions. And yet in the words of the African proverb, no fist is big enough to hide the sky. All of the generations oppressed under the laws of man could not crush the hope of freedom and defeat the purposes of God. View quote
George W. Bush
After we defeat it, I'm sure we'll take on that bastard ennui. View quote
Jon Stewart
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and their contests determine the true triumph or defeat of nations. View quote
Cyrano de Bergerac
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and their contests determine the true triumph or defeat of nations. One scholar is matched with another; one creative mind with another; and one judicious temperament with his counterpart. A victory won on that field counts for three won by force of arms. View quote
Cyrano de Bergerac
Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time. (Rick Perry)
The name of Abraham Lincoln was near and dear to our hearts in the darkest and most perilous hours of the republic. We were no more ashamed of him when shrouded in clouds of darkness, of doubt, and defeat than when we saw him crowned with victory, honor, and glory. Our faith in him was often taxed and strained to the uttermost, but it never failed. View quote
Frederick Douglass
To do that would mean, not merely to be defeated, but to acknowledge defeat- and the difference between these two things is what keeps the world going. View quote
Upton Sinclair
Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc. View quote
Muqtada Sadr
Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone--Ender Wiggin is so dangerous and terrifying it was all we could do not to bring two hundred. View quote
Orson Scott Card
The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military standpoint, in the defeat of Japan. View quote
Chester W. Nimitz
Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat. View quote
Laurence Sterne
There was something... total... something very undermining about the McGovern defeat... There was a very unexplained kind of... ominous quality to it... weeping chaos. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them. View quote
Paul Wolfowitz
I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard. View quote
George H. W. Bush
I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter. (Jeane Kirkpatrick)
I will persist until I succeed. I was not deIivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. View quote
Og Mandino
Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces. View quote
Og Mandino
The reality of the 'Maunder Minimum' and its implications of basic solar change may be but one more defeat in our long and losing battle to keep the sun perfect, or, if not perfect, constant, and if inconstant, regular. Why we think that sun should be any of these when other stars are not is more a question for social than for physical science. View quote
John A. Eddy
Marines don't know how to spell the word 'defeat'. View quote
James Mattis