Defeat Quotes - Page 38

• So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to escape subjectivity and metaphysical isolation - a wish for power to reach this world, having for so long tried, at last hopelessly, to manifest fidelity to another... Photography overcame subjectivity in a way undreamed of by painting, one which does not so much defeat the act of painting as escape it altogether: by automatism, by removing the human agent from the act of reproduction.

  Stanley Cavell

  Photography, Long, Wish

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• Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Eerie, Old Habits, Next

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• I am not, nor will I ever be interested in the possibility of defeat.

  Shannon MacMillan

  Usa, Possibility

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• Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Inspire, Desire, Loser

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• The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up, get in line and wave the flag.'

  Ralph Nader

  Democracy, Flags, Lines

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• I would rank George Washington as America's greatest president, but he only had to defeat what was then the world's greatest military power with a ragtag group of irregulars and some squirrel guns, whereas Ronald Reagan had to defeat liberals.

  Ann Coulter

  Military, Gun, Squirrels

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• ...the aim was to mobilize Christians to proclaim the name of Jesus and to pronounce the defeat of the spiritual forces entrenched in the capital.

  Gerald Coates

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

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• The trouble with us is that we've preached a 'cross' religion, and we need to preach a 'throne' religion. By that I mean that people have thought they were supposed to remain at the cross. Some have received the baptism in the Holy Spirit, have backed up to the cross, and have stayed there ever since...The cross is actually a place of defeat, whereas the Resurrection is a place of triumph. When you preach the cross, you're preaching death, and you leave people in death.

  Kenneth E. Hagin

  Mean, People, Baptism

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• The Church now has been placed potentially in the control of the heavenly places once ruled by the prince of the power of the air. But this reconstituted church must engage and defeat the enemy and retake the heavenlies in the name of her Lord, so that the eyes of those still being held captive by Satan will be opened.

  Ed Silvoso

  Eye, Air, Names

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• YOU are on the verge of complete breakthrough in every area of your life. Spiritually, Financially, and Relationally God has shown me that this is a season of victory for His people. As I went deeper in the Spirit the Lord revealed that before the breakthrough comes, certain things must be dealt with. Specifically, there must be a complete defeat of your enemies!

  Paula White

  People, Enemy, Victory

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• There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution. Whereas reformists are winning small gains, revolutionaries don't want people to be satisfied with those small victories because they worry this will lead to acceptance of the bigger picture of capitalism domination, and so they find a way to turn every victory into a defeat. In the book, I call for a culture of declaring victory wherever we can.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Book, Acceptance, Winning

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• [Marco] Rubio says we should collect all Americans' records all of the time. The Constitution says otherwise. I think they're both wrong. I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Records, Constitution

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I think if we want to defeat terrorism, I think if we truly are sincere about defeating terrorism, we need to quit arming the allies of ISIS. If we want to defeat terrorism, the boots on the ground - the boots on the ground need to be Arab boots on the ground.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Isis, Allies

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• There are millions of peaceful Muslims across the world, in countries like India, where there is not the problems we are seeing in nations that are controlled - have territory controlled by Al Qaida or ISIS, and we should direct at the problem, focus on the problem, and defeat radical Islamic terrorism. It's not a war on a faith; it's a war on a political and theocratic ideology that seeks to murder us.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, War, Islamic

  CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• ISIS is winning the propaganda war. They are recruiting people, including Americans, to join them, with the promise that they are joining this great apocalyptic movement that is going to defeat the West.

  Marco Rubio

  War, Winning, Isis

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Terrorism, Do Not Fear

  5th Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• The focus ought to be on the single fact that Hillary Clinton wants to double down on a failed foreign policy and we need to be united to defeat that because we're going to be in a place that is far less secure than it is today.

  Jeb Bush

  Focus, Needs, Want

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Every parent is wondering, how do we keep our kids safe? We need a commander in chief who does what Ronald Reagan did with communism, which is he set out a global strategy to defeat Soviet communism.

  Ted Cruz

  Kids, Parent, Doe

  CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• We need a president who stands up, number one, and says, we will defeat ISIS. And number two, says the greatest national security threat facing America is a nuclear Iran.

  Ted Cruz

  Nuclear Iran, Isis, Two

  CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• Our country doesn't win anymore. We don't win on trade. We don't win on the military. We can't defeat ISIS. We're not taking care of our great people, the veterans. We're not taking care of them.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Military, Winning

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• At one time I was a nihilistic punk with a mohican and a ring in my nose. I think in the course of time I'll find a middle ground, but I also carry that sense of responsibility. I'm in a position to defeat stereotypes.

  Michelle Shocked

  Responsibility, Thinking, Noses

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• Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.

  Anne Rice

  Passion, Magic, Way

  Anne Rice (2014). “Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles”, p.6, Anchor

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• I am sure that if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror or a corpse, he is sure to win. There is no doubt of that. Defeat is not due to losses but to the destruction of the Soul of the leaders-the 'live to fight another day' doctrine.

  George S. Patton

  Loss, Fighting, Winning

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• It's a different mindset. Coming from where I come from, we always had to defeat the odds. We didn't have what other people had. We had to work twice as hard for everything. To be noticed to be seen. Even back then it drove me to be the best that I can be. I wanted everyone to know I was somebody you had to watch.

  Andre Berto

  Odds, People, Different

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• Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.

  Georg Ebers

  Sorrow, Tactics, Enthusiasm

  Georg Ebers (2015). “Serapis”, p.397, BookRix

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