Admits Defeat Quotes & Sayings

Soldiers planted like vegetables waiting for the day of harvest. ... everything is more intense at night, perfectly beautiful, and when the wind shifts and the reek of rotting meat vanishes for a few blessed minutes you can smell the sweet scent of the countryside. — Louis De Bernieres

It is astonishing, how many difficulties clear up without any effort when the inner life gets straightened out. If half the time we spend trying to fix up outward things were spent in getting our hearts right, we would be delighted with the result. Strange as it may seem, harmony within our hearts depends mostly upon our getting into harmony with God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone. — Trevor Phillips

It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like it's anything that I've done. For me to say, 'Well, it's because of this, this and that is why I've been able to play,' it's just a lie. I couldn't tell you why. — D'Brickashaw Ferguson

You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress. — Claire McCaskill

I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually. — Carly Rae Jepsen

A player who admits defeat before the game is no player — Gregory Odhiambo Juma

But the child's faith never admits defeat, and it would snatch at the mantle of death itself to turn him back. — Rabindranath Tagore

We have more patents on pigmented inks than anybody else. — Antonio Perez

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. — Josephus Daniels

Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail. — Henry David Thoreau

Reminds me of something my grandfather would say. He'd say, "I'm goin' upstairs to fuck your grandmother." He was an honest man, and he wasn't going to bullshit a four-year-old. — George Carlin