Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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,

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

Martin Jacques

The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russia lies in Washington rather than Moscow. After 1989, Russia was a defeated power. Despite the fine words and some limited gestures, the Americans have treated it like one. Their policy has been one of encirclement.

Allan Gregg

The temptation to defeat the government will be overwhelming. They know that when this issue fades, their fortunes fade with it, so sooner is better than later.

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.

Tom DeLay

is going to be very hard to defeat.

The way it seems to work now, setting a New Year's resolution is a recipe for defeat. It has come to be one of the nation's most masochistic traditions.

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.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Kim Cattrall

There is no need to feel defeated at 40, 50 or 60. I'm having the greatest time in the second half of my life.

Thelma Drake

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

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

Dirk Nowitzki

If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

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.

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

Being angered is the greatest defeat to a human being.

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.

Stanislas Wawrinka

As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.

Roger Kahn

You may glory in a team triumphant, ... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.

We turned around a big defeat at Leicester last week with a relatively new team, and that's good. I think they found the passion we've always had at Northampton.

Jeff Greenfield

Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.

Andrew Card

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

Paul Bremer

We have to do everything we can to defeat

Jalal Talabani

We will set no timetable for withdrawal, Mr. President. A timetable will help the terrorists, will encourage them that they could defeat the superpower of the world and the Iraqi people,

Daniel Pipes

Israelis must be encouraged to defeat the Palestinians.

Donald Trump

I will tell you that Hillary [Clinton] will tell you to go to her website and read all about how to defeat ISIS, which she could have defeated by never having it, you know, get going in the first place. Right now, it's getting tougher and tougher to defeat them, because they're in more and more places, more and more states, more and more nations.