#defeat

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#defeat #final #never #single

The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#air #arms #british #canada #cause

There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory. ↗

— Andrew Davidson

#defeat #death

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. ↗

— Henry Miller

#best #beyond #defeat #friends #his

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated. ↗

— George Grosz

#bundle #changed #defeated #disintegrated #except

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#become #both #choice #defeat #feminism

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dark #defeat #depression #giving #had

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. ↗

— Vernon Howard

#denied #existence #forms #self-defeating #their

As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#could #defeated #just #long #muslims

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#defeated #did #faith #like #sophisticated