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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.
There’s an Oriental saying I like: “If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.
Christians know how to face difficulties, trials and defeat with serenity and hope in the Lord.
The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
I learnt my lessons very early on that it's probably a good thing to be humble in victory as well as defeat.
Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.
In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.
Today, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy the world.
One year to me is just a small section of life. For most humans, one year is a long time and so much happens. But for the universe, it's very temporary.
The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.
Weakness is hard, but it doesn't have to mean defeat. It's our opportunity to experience God's power firsthand.
France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.
Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species.
What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.
Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.
Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.
The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.
Sin turns ugly and is subject to defeat only when seen in the light of Christ's beauty.
As long as being a stranger and surrounded by strangers was seen as a temporary irritant, a smallest departure from the binding rules of conduct by a member of a minority, was taken for a major crime justifying deportation.
If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.
Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.
I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
I don't know how you defeat an insurgency unless you have some handle on the number of people that you are facing.
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.
Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.
No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until he sets out to seek ways and means of repeating it.
What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.
Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.
The Feminine force of life is often too wise for the Masculine's need to know: The mysterious energy of the evolving cosmos is always superior to our temporary scientific notions about it. . .
Now we have Republicans - to one degree or another - working as hard as the Democrats are to defeat Donald Trump.
Walk a single path, become neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat.
The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.
It's always an uphill battle to defeat a Supreme Court nominee, but this is a fight worth having.
For just a few dollars registration, you got temporary possession of a good piece of land. Live on it for five years, build a house, and farm it, and it was yours. What a brilliant economic stimulus!
I don't pay much attention to magazine covers. One day, there'll be slack times in my career. It's unavoidable, because success is temporary. Which is why you have to stay focused on this very taxing job.
The assumption of the word reunion is that, once you're together again, you are united. Two as one. Pulling close to someone is only a temporary symbol. It's the way you breathe with each other that's the telltale sign.
To defeat Donald Trump, the Democrats must run a stellar cast of all-stars in their primary.
The manner of my defeat against Mayweather and certainly Manny Pacquiao was a bitter pill to swallow.
The worst of all outcomes is that the Sandinistas will defeat the democratic fighters, and consequently they would have it all their way.
We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.
Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.
I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.
Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.
It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.
He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.
With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.
If people around the world believe they can just come on a temporary visa and never, ever leave, the Obama-Clinton policy, that's what it is, then we have a completely open border, and we no longer have a country.
If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you're stealing.
It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit.
To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.
With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
Everything is temporary. I don't know how long will I have my time here in the industry. I want to concentrate in making good music. That will be my biggest satisfaction.
