#defeat

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #defeat




When you pray and hope for a change. Don't expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come.


Jonathan Anthony Burkett


#hope #hopelessness #inspirational #jonathan-anthony-burkett #life

We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.


Denis Kearney


#defeat #defiance #falsehood #force #fraud

Secretary Rumsfeld used to represent parts of our district in the 1960s. I think that he and his team have done a masterful job in defeating Iraqi forces quickly and decisively.


Mark Kirk


#defeating #district #done #forces #his

As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.


John Thorn


#chill #defeat #enters #fall #fan

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.


Robert Trout


#british empire #british press #defeats #empire #forgets

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.


Sun Tzu


#defeat #defeating #enemy #hands #himself

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.


Sun Tzu


#defeat #defeating #enemy #fighters #first

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.


Henry Miller


#been #death #defeat #deny #inevitably

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.


Beverley Nichols


#delectable #flowers #form #fragrance #overcome

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.


James F. Cooper


#defeating #leads #legislation #party #purpose