Defeat Quote by Winifred Holtby Download Open image “no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.” — Winifred Holtby ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defeat Enough Legends Strong Strong enough Truth Truth is Wells
After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there… — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat. — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight! — Chris Oyakhilome Copy Share Image
If Pete’s (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he’s a boy, my son will defeat him. — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
After a big defeat, any player feels affected - it is about how long he needs to recover. — Gerardo Martino 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 and we… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We know from this book entitled... What is it? Surrendered? Succumbed? I can never remember the title perform. And we learn from this book that 24 hours after the election, the Hillary Clinton campaign decided to blame their defeat on the Russians colluding with Trump to affect the outcome of the election. And that allegation ends up being taken so… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share
The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants. — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
It has never been more critical that a leader step forward to accelerate our understanding of cancer - and champion the effort to finally… — Victor J. Dzau Copy Share Image
“It would seem no matter how progressive we get there are always those few who are backwards in their ways.” — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
