Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our guys were ready, but it was no match at all, ... They just defeated us in every aspect. I would say it was about as thorough a throttling job on our offense as we've seen this year.

George H. W. Bush

We need more troops to defeat 'The Illusion of Failure' in Iraq....29 million should do it.

Carrie Fisher

I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.

It is a monumental defeat for the government.

Tim Brown

Ironically, Otter Valley was the last Vermont school to defeat a Legacy-coached team, and that was back in 1988.

I thought he wrestled a great match when he defeated Mark Brown. He wrestled smart.

Charlie Sheen

Defeat is not an option. Period. The End.

Treating pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat alike, engage yourself in your duty. By doing your duty this way you will not incur sin.

We had considerable consideration, but we didn't get in.

We have also suffered similar defeats in our early years.

I was not strong enough to defeat him. Like his master before him, be destroyed, he must.

will end in snatching defeat from the jaws of uncertainty.

We have a track record of success in defeating moderates in the primary. No one else has done the job in that area.

You learn more from defeat than you do from victory. We've been through a lot the last month, and we're finally learning how to make big plays down the stretch.

Being angered is the greatest defeat to a human being.

The king has been defeated but the defeat is not complete.

Edward Teller

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.

Norman Vincent Peale

The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

Our all-out focus is on defeating the state of Massachusetts constitutional amendment. We're trying to defeat it in the Legislature so it never gets to the ballot.

Luis Suarez

People ask, 'How can you let a defeat hurt you so much?' But it comes back to the effort you have put into your career as a youngster.

Napoleon Hill

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

William Daley

No question it will come down to the wire. We don't have the 218 votes yet to win it, and the opposition doesn't have them to defeat it,

Phil Tufnell

After 12 years of pain and defeat at the hands of the Aussies as a player and hearing various wisecracks and jokes at my teammates' expense, I felt it was time to give the Aussies back some of their own medicine.

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat

Lanny Poffo

First of all, I disagree with the question. How many people do you know that were on NBC and defeated Hulk Hogan?

Andrew Card

The results of defeating terror probably will not be realized during this president's tenure,

As if Your VICTORY is an Outcome of Somebody's Defeat....It Underlines the sure-shot ROLE of Defeat in Victory!

Tom Ridge

do all we can to honor those who rose up with resolve to defeat evil.

Fred Anderson

And yet, despite its military defeat, the loss of its North American possessions, and the destruction of most of its navy, France survived defeat and rapidly recovered.

Mahesh Rangarajan

This is a damage-limitation move and a snap victory from the jaws of defeat.

Michael Ignatieff

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.