I never liked bananas much anyway. Two-thirds of the way down even one banana I am willing to concede defeat smilingly and… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have clearly said we faced terrorist enemies who use Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people and we have to stop them… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted"… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence. — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Hate is your enemy; you must defeat it! Anger is your enemy; you must defeat it! Violence is your enemy; you must… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
After Mitt Romney's defeat, the RNC released its official assessment of what happened - a failure to reach younger voters, nonwhite voters,… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American people. But we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We are all going to fall short. We are going to have some bitter losses, very painful defeats and failures. We have… — Karch Kiraly Copy Share Image
“May I at least carry, to the boundless possibility contained in the abyss of everything, the glory of my disillusion like that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
When you stand and overcome a significant setback, you'll find an increasing inner confidence and self-assurance that has been created by conquering… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
“He could construct defeat from any available material and live inside it, but for once Dellarobia didn't go there with him. She… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In his big victory speech last night, Senator Kerry said that he wanted to defeat George Bush and the 'economy of privilege.'… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
You always learn from a defeat, even more than when you win games, because when you win, you don't see everything you… — Georginio Wijnaldum Copy Share Image
Even if your skin is perfect, even if it's glowing and beautiful, electric lights defeat you. They deaden the complexion, make it… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
God turns on its head one form of evil - suffering - in order to defeat another form of evil - that… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“15. Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will… — Nabeshima Naoshige Copy Share Image
To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement… Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The cross guarantees that even in your darkest moment God will never turn in disgust and walk away. There is no rebellion,… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“Reading, by its very nature, is an admission of defeat, a ritual of self-humiliation: it shows that you believe other lives are… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I went to a bookstore the other day. I asked a woman behind the counter where the self-help books were. She said,… — Brian Kiley Copy Share Image
Americans want to defeat terrorism and they want the basic character of this country to survive and prosper. They want both security… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
I've always had to bind up and wrestle fear, because acting is really about faith. And faith and fear can't really stay… — Derek Luke Copy Share Image
“I've never felt that the American Dream was owed to me. I never felt that I was entitled to this Dream. This… — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
I have a number of famous quotes, and one of them is, if you get knocked down, get back up again. I… — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
I thought what Steve Bannon said was probably more chilling or more threatening than anything the president [Donald Trump]says, I mean, because… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total… — Anthony Wayne Copy Share Image