#feat

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#defeats #disasters #energies #even #expect

We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours. ↗

— David Letterman

#bad news #defeated #good #good news #hussein

Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job. ↗

— Alan Lewis

#coaches #doing #feathers #going #international

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

Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#another #complex #everybody #feature #notices

Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#feature #get #going #into #longer

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#especially #features #often #style #well

I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward. ↗

— Nia Long

#backwards #break #coming #feature #forward

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#crowded #defeat #ourselves #shouts #street

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