Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances,… — GEORGE ELIOT Copy Share Image
For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our… — William D. Leahy Copy Share Image
What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
President Trump committed obstruction. From the moment he defeated Hillary Clinton, Democrats have tried to overturn the 2016 election, and President Trump… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
The sincere hearts and the pious supplications are soldiers which can never be defeated — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
The politicians of New York as not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act.… — William L. Marcy Copy Share Image
Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russia lies in Washington rather than Moscow. After… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
I tried to imagine how things could get much worse. The gods were in the Midwest fighting a huge monster that had… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
ISIS have to be defeated. They have to be defeated militarily. How are we going to do that if we continue to… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You see it with Brexit, you see it in Donald Trump's election, you see it with the fact that neither of the… — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
See?" Fezzik pointed then. Far down, at the very bottom of the mountain path, the man in black could be seen running.… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“The only way to prevent your problem from jubilating over you is to confront them head to head with the singular hope… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
