Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
Napoleon Hill -
I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.
Gary Lineker -
Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of the concept of keeping score, we could never have had a million sports channels.
Patricia Marx -
Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.
Frances Burney -
Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.
Naftali Bennett -
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilisation in high boots.
Albert Einstein -
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 -
Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill -
Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
Benoit Mandelbrot -
I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.
Kevin Keegan -
You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.
Walt Disney
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I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.
Freya Stark -
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.
Virginia Woolf -
There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.
Socrates -
Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.
William James
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We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Yogi Berra -
As a husband, your love for your wife has a specific goal: her holiness.
Winston Smith -
You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.
Ernest Hemingway -
I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.
Carrie Fisher