#defeat

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

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972. ↗

— George McGovern

#believed #could #defeat #defeated #democrat

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality. ↗

— James A. Michener

#confuse #defeat #dreams #life #permanent

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#contemporary #defeat #form #greatest #identity

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#becoming #beings #between #capable #constituted

We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#authoritarianism #begin #conviction #corruption #defeating

As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#could #defeated #just #long #muslims

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#defeated #did #faith #like #sophisticated

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#even #followers #his #islam #number

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#defeated #educated #refusal #some