Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franco Pavoncello

The outcome might very well be that together with (Berlusconi?s) defeat this time we may also see his disappearance from the political scene.

Beverly Sills

There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.

Steve Woll

We always expect to win. If you don't expect it you've defeated yourself. You just let the marbles play out.

Edwin Louis Cole

Truth cannot be defeated.

Benjamin Franklin

Venison and venery defeated me.

Thelma Drake

We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy.

George William Russell

The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered.

Chuck Tepper

We're always nervous whenever we play this team, because we've had defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.

Carl Schmid

We hope to defeat it in the House and send it back to conference.

Buffalo Bill

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.

Jackie Speier

When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis, and not for the one night I voluntarily spent at a shelter.

Tom Rath

I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no matter how hard managers tried, there wasn't much they could do with some of those people.

H. Tejomayananda

Some are destined to succeed, some are determined to succeed.

Sergei Kupriyanov

We have information from the ground that shows Ukraine has started illegally siphoning off Russian gas destined for European consumers.

Lori Wilde

I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I'm incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can't do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father's nickname for me when I was growing up was 'Hardhead.'

Yiddish Proverbs

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.

Go Ah-sung

I saw Roland Barthes's 'Mourning Diary' at a bookshop, and I felt it was like I was destined to see the book. I read it all in one go while I was in the shop. The book was mind-blowing.

African Proverb

The day the monkey is destined to die, all the trees get slippery