#defeat

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

— Beverley Nichols

#delectable #flowers #form #fragrance #overcome

When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can't help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club. ↗

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

#brain #changed #club #comes #could

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody. ↗

— Mojo Nixon

#being #calling #defeat #fear #fear god

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#risks #suffer #take #victories #will

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#defeat #develop #got #learn #survive

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

— James F. Cooper

#defeating #leads #legislation #party #purpose

I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service. ↗

— Melita Norwood

#cost #could #defeat #did #education

The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#calculated #defeat #every #glaring #hours

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#better #checkered #dare #defeat #enjoy

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#because #been #defeated #failure #feelings