#defeat

The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#class #come #decisive #defeat #may

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#death #defeat #doors #drowning #emigration

We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#defeat #defiance #falsehood #force #fraud

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#defeat #defeating #enemy #hands #himself

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#defeat #defeating #enemy #fighters #first

What we now have in Iraq is a defeat. ↗

— Henry Waxman

#iraq #now

Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs. ↗

— Victor Cruz

#defending #everybody #wants

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. ↗

— Josephus Daniels

#comes #defeat #man #never #until

My biggest frustration with the Heisman is it's become the MVP of the national champion, or a team going to the National Championship game. That's what it's turned into. If you're not undefeated, you're out of the running. ↗

— Doug Flutie

#biggest #champion #championship #frustration #game

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#itself #lies #lose #military #peril