Defeated Quotes - Page 9

• To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introducted; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected localities; short words must be excised with ruthless hand; archaisms must be sprinkled like sugar-plums upon the concoction; the fatal human tendency to say things straightforwardly must be detected and defeated by adroit reversals; and, if a glimmer of meaning yet remain under close scrutiny, it must be removed by replacing all the principal verbs by paraphrases in some dead language.

  Aleister Crowley

  Hands, Plums, Verbs

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• If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Way, Gains

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.32, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don't believe that we're supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God's blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that's how God leads us.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Blessing, Thinking

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• The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing either upon the public's indifference, confusions, prejudices, pugnacities or fears. And the only way in which the power of the interests can be undermined and their maneuvers defeated is by bringing home to the public the danger of its indifference, the absurdity of its prejudices, or the hollowness of its fears; by showing that it is indifferent to danger where real danger exists; frightened by dangers which are nonexistent.

  Norman Angell

  Real, Hate, Home

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• Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated.

  Dean Koontz

  Pain, Reality, Justice

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.321, Bantam

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• When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Feelings, Inspired

  Joel Osteen (2009). “Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.

  William Wordsworth

  War, Army, Snow

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author”, p.9

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• Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Attitude, Succeed

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Separate Reality”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.

  Franz Kafka

  Seduction, Assuming, Sometimes

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• It seems to be generally acknowledged that sexism is far from defeated, flourishing through religions and other reactionary ideologies, which would definitely and gladly erase the concept of feminism.

  Laura Mulvey

  Feminism, Flourishing, Sexism

  Source: en.aup.nl

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• If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Victory, Problem, Possibility

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2016). “The Bumps Are What You Climb On: Encouragement for Difficult Days”, p.54, Baker Books

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• Success through the eyes of one once defeated, is true VICTORY.

  Jim Cramer

  Motivational, Eye, Victory

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• Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Enemy, Strategy

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• When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another Hitler, it may be an invisible adversary, will attempt, again, and yet again, to destroy our frail civilization. Is it true, I wonder, that the only way to escape a war is to be in it? When one is a part of an actuality does the imagination find a release?

  Ellen Glasgow

  War, Civilization, Evil

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• My instinct tells me "purpose" is maybe the enemy of a good personal essay. In my own experience, I'm always lost and wandering and searching - where am I? how'd I get in this mess? what's the point? - right through to the final draft, and sometimes even beyond that - baffled and defeated still, confused as to purpose long after the thing's in print. I never really have a guiding purpose or a point, not at the outset, anyway. It's like life: It's all discovered en route.

  Charles D'Ambrosio

  Confused, Long, Enemy

  "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.

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• In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.

  Walker Percy

  World, Goodness, Destined

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.

  John Howard

  War, People, Justice

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• It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.

  Marcel Proust

  Military, War, Army

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• To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Passion, Views, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson (1951). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 18 June, 1779 to 30 September, 1780”

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• A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Success, Men, May

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• Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated by definition. We would be humiliated in that defeat. I don't think there's any other way to argue it. Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing is a separate question.

  Tucker Carlson

  Thinking, Iraq, United States

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 7, 2005.

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• We fought for freedom together. We had no government, no weapons to help us. We defeated such a big empire without any government, without any arms.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Government, Together

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• Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

  Thomas Mallon

  Distance, Letters, Mail

  Thomas Mallon (2009). “Yours Ever: People and Their Letters”, p.3, Vintage

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• The reason why the war ended in Bosnia was not because of amnesty but because a combined Croat-Bosnian offensive defeated the Serbs on the battlefield. Sometimes naïveté belongs not to the human rights activists but to the politicians.

  Payam Akhavan

  War, Human Rights, Sometimes

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think that one of the problems that exists in the United States and in many places in the world is that people don't believe that they can make a difference. So a lot of times we're defeated before we even start. We've become consumers of a world vision, of Kentucky Fried Chicken, of McDonalds.

  Assata Shakur

  Believe, Thinking, Kentucky

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