Quotes of: Defeated Keyword

If she was going to write a novel, she felt defeated before she began, because someone might be coming along to pick it apart, looking for symbols like The Conch or The Whale, which seemed to have mythic proportions.

The Novelist

Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.

La liste de mes envies

Are these soldiers really our enemy, or only the worst reflection of our own selves?... We made them. We have to unmake them, not just defeat or kill them.

Traitors' Gate

It was like this sometimes, and I felt I should look away, but I couldn't. I wanted to be there, having my face touched, defeating a heart like Peter's, but the next best thing was seeing it for Tiger Lily.

Tiger Lily

Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up?

Three Kingdoms: Classic Novel in Four Volumes

Stop validating your victim mentality. Shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.

White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

The White Luck Warrior

She clasped his hands and pressed her lips to them. 'I want you to be proud of me,' he repeated. She dropped his hands, feeling defeated.

The Things We Did For Love

If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.

The Magnificent Defeat

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

The Magnificent Defeat

I never studied on fighting demons, but that don't mean I aim to let this one defeat us. The dark ones have their share of limitations too.

Magic and Murder Among the Dwarves

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

George Eliot

The strongest man is the one who, when he gets angry and his face reddens and his hackles rise, is able to defeat his anger. (Reported by Imaam Ahmad, 5/367, and classified as hasan in Saheeh al-Jaami’, 3859)

Prophet Muhammad pbuh

We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for thi...

Raul Grijalva

Blame is such a self-defeating choice. It renders one helpless, putting any solution well out of reach, for we rarely can change others. Consider this, a solution well within your reach, someone you can surely change: Yourself.

Russell Kyle

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

Robert E. Lee

If Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand something, it's not defeat. It's not even something he has to accept. It's merely a challenge he needs to engineer his way out of, and that includes human emotions and relationships.

Sarah Lacy

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will ...

Tony Blair

The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country so that we have a reasoned and thoughtful approach and that ...

Tom Coburn

My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.

Ted Dekker