Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hillary Clinton

I will take a backseat to no one in keeping America safe. I have a very clear set of proposals about how we defeat ISIS.

Hillary Clinton

I intend to defeat ISIS, to do so in a coalition with majority Muslim nations.

George Orwell

Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.

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.

Southern Boone played very, very well. They had played Friday night as well, defeating Harrisburg in overtime.

Defeat - For every winner there are dozens of losers. Odds are you're one of them.

There's an old saying that victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan

At least we played with heart and desire - two things that were missing in the Wolfsburg defeat,

Alan Shearer

It's a huge game for us. Defeat is not worth thinking about.

Rosalynn Carter

There was no way I could understand our defeat. I had to grieve over our loss before I could look to the future. Where could our lives possibly be as meaningful as they might have been in the White House?

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.

Les Brown

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Jane Mayer

The possibility exists that the Kochs will walk away with even more power if [Donalds] Trump's defeated.

J. K. Rowling

Great, tell me when you've defeated Voldemort for me, will you?

Horace Greeley

Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.

Danny Glover

If I judge a character, I'm defeating the purpose.

I don't want to be talking about encouraging defeats every week.

David Gray

I don't want to be saying we nearly won again, because the margin of defeat does not matter,

He's most vulnerable now. The more times he's able to win in this district, the more difficult it will be to defeat him.

Rudy Giuliani

how he is demonized. It doesn't matter what the media does to ridicule him or misinterpret him or defeat him.

Mary Baker Eddy

A wrong motive involves defeat.

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

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.

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.

Mark Richard

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.

Terrell Owens

I just feel like with God you can't be defeated.

Ted Cruz

I will do whatever I can to defeat Hillary Clinton.

The first thing that comes to my mind, I feel this is the worst defeat we've endured in the seven-plus years I've been here.