#defeat

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #defeat




I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.


Gary Lineker


#defeat #doomed #few #i #i am

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.


James Longstreet


#broken #changed #command #corps #defeat

And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat?


John McCain


#certain #cheer #cheering #date #defeat

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.


George McGovern


#believed #could #defeat #defeated #democrat

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.


James A. Michener


#confuse #defeat #dreams #life #permanent

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.


Kelly Miller


#defeat #down #falling #germany #her

The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country.


Peter Pace


#armed #armed forces #bottom #bottom line #country

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.


John Steinbeck


#inspirational #laughter #inspirational

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.


Santosh Kalwar


#defeat #journey #life #other-side #stop

For after all, why do we go on fighting? If we die for democracy then we must be one of the democracies. Let the rest fight with us, if that is the case. But the most powerful of them, the only one that could save us, chooses to bide its time. Very good. That is its right. But by so doing, that democracy signifies that we are fighting for ourselves alone. And we go on fighting despite the assurance that we have lost the war. Why, then, do we go on dying? Out of despair? But there is no despair. You know nothing about defeat if you think there is room in it for despair. There is a verity that is higher than the pronouncements of the intelligence. There is a thing which pierces and governs us and which cannot be grasped by the intelligence. A tree has no language. We are a tree. There are truths which are evident, though not to be put into words. I do not die in order to obstruct the path of the invasion, for there is no shelter upon which I can fall back with those I love. I do not die to preserve my honor, since I deny that my honor is at stake, and I challenge the jurisdiction of my judge. Nor do I die out of desperation.


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


#despair #war #intelligence