Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoff Davis

Historically, the reorganization movements in this state haven't been very successful. There are far more defeated merger studies than there are successful ones.

I think we were a lot more excited last year. This year we are excited but we realize that it defeats the purpose to go the championship and lose. We've been here before and after what happened last year, it's more humbling because we know the job is not done yet.

John Higgins

It had nothing to do with Graeme. It was just the way I played, the way I approached the game and the state of mind I was in. I have never felt as down after that defeat as I did then.

I don't have any explanation for this defeat. I'm stunned, and I don't know what to say.

William Moulton Marston

If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.

Tullian Tchividjian

The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.

If somebody tricks you into providing that information, then, of course, it defeats the whole purpose.

Frederick the Great

It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised.

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.

Alan Colmes

Democrats need to be not only gracious in defeat, but positive about the future.

Joel Miller

Despite all that happened to the football team last season, they've really turned it around this fall. To defeat Jacksonville State last week was great because they are a ranked team.

It's much more important to raise money to defeat (Prop. 77) than it is to raise money for their own re-election.

Vince Gill

It's so hard to defeat perceptions. I feel like whenever you have the opportunity, you take it and show people what it is that you do.

It's difficult to swallow the defeat. We started well and took the lead, but unfortunately we couldn't sustain it or extend it. It's hard for the players, but they should be proud. In the end, this is football.

They will have lots of problems after being eliminated by a team that they felt they could easily beat.

It was a great win the first time we've every defeated Davidson and the girls played with great discipline.

It's going to be a battle, ... We probably do have enough votes in the House to defeat it.

Jon Gruden

We're not going to let one defeat or two defeats or a negative road trip set us back from our goals. We realize this is a work in progress, this football team. We have a long way to get where we want to be,

Mary Baker Eddy

A wrong motive involves defeat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is defeat which educates us.

Shirley Chisholm

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

Peter Jackson

Defeat is always momentary.

Joyce Meyer

If Satan can defeat you in your thoughts then he can defeat you anywhere else as well,

Joel Osteen

Your problems are not there to defeat you, they are there to increase you.

John F. Kennedy

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

Mahesh Rangarajan

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

It's one of those depressing defeats because we played well in every aspect, but we just shot horrible.

It was difficult for the congressman to see people whose sole mission was to defame and defeat Mr. DeLay be successful at that.

It was a very hard defeat to swallow.