Quotes About Admitting Defeat

#1. For the first time in my life I was admitting defeat.

Christina Lauren

#2. Admitting defeat? How un-huntress like of you.

Yvonne Nicolas

#3. We were losers who talked a winning game. No wonder honesty came to mean for my sister saying only the most damaging things against herself. If she began by admitting defeat, then something was possible: sincerity, perhaps, or at least the avoidance of appearing ludicrous.

Edmund White

#4. Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time.

Rick Perry

#5. [P]art of the pleasure of engaging with a writer is unraveling some allusions and admitting defeat by others.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

#6. He gave me a last dark look, not admitting defeat,not giving an inch .I watched him with unexpected regret. Watched him until the consciousness went out of his eyes and they were simply open but seeing nothing.

Dick Francis

#7. as much as we wanted to do the right thing. Sometimes, the right thing was just admitting defeat.

M. Robinson

#8. I considered organizing a game of wits - " "Admitting defeat already, are you? Since you're unarmed?

Vivian Arend

#9. It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game.

Roger Kahn

#10. For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

Jonathan Carroll

#11. Maybe Christmas is more than a day to receive.
Maybe Christmas, perhaps, is a day to believe.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. Tomorrow isn't better than today ~ yet.

Robert Marcin

#13. The animals listened first to Napoleon, then to Snowball, and could not make up their minds which was right; indeed, they always found themselves in agreement with the one who was speaking at the moment.

George Orwell

#14. In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.

Ang Lee

#15. One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England.

Glenn T. Seaborg

#16. Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not exert on us a culpable attraction? Or must we, leaning over the deck and watching the shores glide by, move forever onward?

Andre Gide

#17. Testing a parachute drop of a heavy object is not simple.

Henry Spencer

#18. When you want what you want more than you fear what you want, you will have it.

Alan Cohen

#19. When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself

Sunday Adelaja

#20. We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

Madeleine Albright

#21. As a kid, I loved going to lots of thrift stores with my parents. There was a period where I thought it was embarrassing, and then I started to get older - I realized they were really cool.

Tessa Thompson

#22. O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest.

Augustine Of Hippo