Quotes About Fighting A Losing Battle

#1. He raised his hand automatically and tried to make his hair lie flat. "You're fighting a losing battle there, dear," said his mirror in a wheezy voice.

J.K. Rowling

#2. Like most people, I gave little thought during my life to the scourge of child pornography. But, I now know we are fighting a losing battle. The predators are sophisticated in the use of computers and talented in the manipulation of children.

Kurt Eichenwald

#3. Fighting a losing battle is as good as tucking in stones in your pockets, jumping in a dam and hoping to float.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#4. A black ... gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

David Duke

#5. I have more enemies than I deserve," I said. "I am fighting a losing battle, me against the world. The next century is at stake. Time is running out and my optimism is sorely strained."
"Yeah?" he said. "I was young once too.

Felix Gilman

#6. Love is a fighting a losing battle.

Mary Elizabeth

#7. You know, I've tried staying away from you. I've tried ignoring how I feel about you, which isn't how I should feel. But it's like fighting a losing battle. And I don't want to fight it anymore. I don't want to ignore this.

J. Lynn

#8. I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.

Carrie Underwood

#9. I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me.

James Branch Cabell

#10. The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects.

James Madison

#11. Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

George Eliot

#12. Where there is no love, put love
and you will find love.

San Juan De La Cruz

#13. We must conquer the fear to avoid losing the battle.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Winning cannot become your habit unless defeats have torn you apart
and you sit in the battle field
stitching back yourself
one piece at a time
laughing in the faces of all defeats.

Chetan M. Kumbhar

#15. Inside of Ki energy, we feel that we are not beings fettered by time and space but that we are infinite and eternal.

Ilchi Lee

#16. The US Constitution only guarantees your rights as a citizen, it doesn't guarantee happiness. It may take work, but if you have your rights, happiness is very possible.

Benjamin Franklin

#17. Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.

Bob Saget

#18. The inconspicuous nine-vehicle motorcade rolled toward Manhattan with motorcycle sirens blaring and lights flashing, attracting no attention at all.

Salman Rushdie

#19. People should and do trust me.

Hillary Clinton

#20. Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.

Robert Benchley

#21. Looking back, it made no sense for my college friends and me to distance ourselves from the hard-won achievements of earlier feminists. We should have cheered their efforts. Instead, we lowered our voices, thinking the battle was over, and with this reticence we hurt ourselves.

Sheryl Sandberg

#22. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

Swami Vivekananda

#23. Suddenly she let fly with this: "It's nice here!"
It was a ghastly dump, but she felt free.

Victor Hugo

#24. Sorry can be the hardest word when you know you're wrong.

Tarkan

#25. Men like you preach change, but I wonder. Is this a battle we can really fight?"
"You're fighting it already, Goodman Mennis. You're just losing horribly.

Brandon Sanderson

#26. I have angst in my life, but I'm like anybody. We all have angst in our lives that we pick up and fidget with and then we put down and look at some other things that make us feel good or enjoy our lives.

Dave Chappelle

#27. Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.

Jonathan Tropper

#28. Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree.

George Washington

#29. I bow my head just in front of the truth.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann