Concede Defeat Quotes

#1. I study the chessboard and concede defeat.
"You can gain yourself in five moves" says the Colonel. "Worth fighting to the end. In five moves your opponent can err. No war is won or lost until the final battle is over.

Haruki Murakami

#2. I never liked bananas much anyway. Two-thirds of the way down even one banana I am willing to concede defeat smilingly and give the rest to the nearest monkey.

Robert Benchley

#3. concede defeat in the mind, he seems

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#4. And in more than half the pictures, she isn't looking at the camera; she's looking at him. Not the way I would look at Ben Parish, all squishy around the eyes. She looks at Evan fiercely, like, This here? It's mine

Rick Yancey

#5. Hard and fast, Drake and make it last longer than last time.

Tarryn Fisher

#6. Hamlet: the agony of the bookworm forced to be a man of action.

Marty Rubin

#7. Writing is throwing spaghetti at a wall to see what sticks.

Kelly E. Lindner

#8. We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.

J.I. Packer

#9. I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.

Frank Zappa

#10. A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

Sue Monk Kidd

#11. The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

Viktor Korchnoi

#12. I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.

William J. Casey

#13. An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

G.K. Chesterton

#14. Islam is more dangerous in a man than rabies in a dog.

Winston Churchill

#15. Don't ask me why I obsessively look to rock 'n' roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it's just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since.

Lester Bangs

#16. I have seen my father concede to utter defeat in the hospital room. I've heard him choke on sobs and whisper angry things to the god of the sky when he thought I was asleep at Lex's bedside. I know that those uniforms are worn by men - only men.

Lauren DeStefano

#17. Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.

Zig Ziglar

#18. You saw too late. Now you are as she is, bewteen two worlds, warmth bleeding into cold.

Elizabeth Lowell