#defeat

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. ↗

— Rose Wilder Lane

#capture #defeated #effort #endless #fiction

I like to set up obstacles and defeat them. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#i #like #obstacles #set #them

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

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

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#be strong #brave #build #defeat #enough

When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#bother #cancer #courageous #defeated #did

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. ↗

— Edwin Markham

#glory #may #out #serve #shake

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#everything #learn #little #victory #you

And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat? ↗

— John McCain

#certain #cheer #cheering #date #defeat