#defeat

France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#defeat #france #full #i #must

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#details #distinguish #hard #hear #once

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#detail #distinguish #longer #told #victory

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#condition #defeated #giving #giving up #makes

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water. ↗

— John Sayles

#america #dead #defeats #feel #final

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#assume #attacked #because #community #counterterrorism

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#deal #defeated #esquire #his #james

I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#defeated #done #fire #fists #i

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. ↗

— Wallis Simpson

#defeat #gallant #never #spirit

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#clock #construe #defeating #gone #i