Quotes & Sayings About Sporting Defeat

This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was. — David Niven

All Joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still 'about to be'. — C.S. Lewis

Remember that rabbit-proof fencing you told me about? You get that at a hardware store or is it special order? — Elle Lothlorien

Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner. - Tyrion — George R R Martin

As the real army plowed through the waves toward Normandy, two more fake convoys were scientifically simulated heading for the Seine and Boulogne by dropping from planes a blizzard of tinfoil, code-named "Window," which would show up on German radar as two huge flotillas approaching the French coast. — Ben Macintyre

In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it. — Christian Nestell Bovee

I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well. — Haley Reinhart

But I like the inconveniences."
"We don't," said the Controller. "We prefer to do things comfortably."
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."
"All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley

Yeh don' know what yeh are?" he said finally. Uncle Vernon suddenly found his voice. "Stop!" he commanded. "Stop right there, sir! I forbid you to tell the boy anything! — J.K. Rowling

Just being the son of Billy Graham won't get me into heaven. — Franklin Graham

Lie #7

They won't really hurt me. — Robin Talley

I'm definitely someone who likes to fly by the seat of her pants. My mum always prays for the best ... — Ali Larter

I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work. — Richard Rogers