Outfought Quotes & Sayings

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty. — John Buchanan Robinson

Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law. — R. Buckminster Fuller

By getting your customers to agree with you in small steps along the way, you have a better chance of reaching agreement when it's time to do business. — Harvey MacKay

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death. — Edna Ferber

He smiled and as his lips parted, little bits of solid waste fell from them. Hellelujah, we can only be what we are, I thought and wondered if I was as repulsive to him as he was to me. I don't think so, because even though he literally wore a shit-eating grin, I sensed he was genuinely happy to see me — R.E. Vance

Although the defects of the Russian Army were notorious, although the Russian winter, not the Russian Army, had turned Napoleon back from Moscow, although it had been defeated on its own soil by the French and British in the Crimea, although the Turks in 1877 had outfought it at the siege of Plevna and only succumbed later to overwhelming numbers, although the Japanese had outfought it in Manchuria, a myth of its invincibility prevailed. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Christians lost the battle in the public square over gay marriage because, frankly, we were outthought, outfought, and outmarketed on the issue. — Robert Jeffress

The preaching of the gospel is not to persuade people to agree with me in my theological views. The preaching of the gospel so far as I am concerned, is to bring people into personal association with that person with whom I have fellowship. — William Warren Prescott

The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it's better not to tell the truth. — Louis De Bernieres

The skills of becoming happy turn out to be almost entirely different from the skills of not being sad, not being anxious, or not being angry. — Martin E.P. Seligman

The more the "Autism World" is invested in politics it will continue to implode and more voices will be lost as a result — Paul Isaacs

I can weave threads of myself into a tapestry already designed by others. — Sara Raasch

Love has its own timeline, Tyler. Remember that. — Alessandra Torre

We don't yet know the state of the naturals. Are they friends or foes? None of us can say. We ought to anchor in the bay, as near as we might come to the shore, and bide our time. The naturals will show themselves, soon or late. They know we are here already, or else I'm a virgin girl. — Libbie Hawker