Unwinnable Quotes

#1. Growing old is an unwinnable campaign. During this war we witness ugly scenes. Truths mutate to whims. Faith becomes cynical transactions between liars. Sacrifices turn out to be needless excesses. Heroes become old farts, and young farts become heroes. Ethics become logos on sports clothing.

David Mitchell

#2. he carried out these traits until the very end, even when he knew the war was unwinnable. And that's about all any of us can really hope for, to die with our dignity, to die with honor and valor.

Pittacus Lore

#3. The war in Iraq was unwinnable.

Howard Dean

#4. Pitt and Burke were two of the most eloquent and respected members of Parliament, and taken together, by early 1775, they were warning the British ministry that it was headed toward a war that was unwise, unnecessary, and probably unwinnable.

Joseph J. Ellis

#5. Chant back to us our platitudes about democracy, greatness, and freedom. Vote in our rigged corporate elections. Send your young men and women to fight and die in useless, unwinnable wars that provide huge profits for corporations.

Chris Hedges

#6. There are no unwinnable wars.

Ozzy Osbourne

#7. I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense.

Roger Stone

#8. You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.

Jesse Jackson

#9. We felt trapped in two seemingly unwinnable wars, in which a disproportionate share of the fighters came from our neighborhood, and in an economy that failed to deliver the most basic promise of the American Dream - a steady wage.

J.D. Vance

#10. Purposefully owning less begins to take us out of the unwinnable game of comparison.

Joshua Becker

#11. If we can focus on making clear what parts of our day are within our control and what parts are not, we will not only be happier, we will have a distinct advantage over other people who fail to realize they are fighting an unwinnable battle.

Ryan Holiday

#12. In plain language, we cannot live except as self-deceivers who must lie to ourselves about ourselves, as well as about our unwinnable situation in this world.

Thomas Ligotti

#13. I am a hundred and forty six years old and this is not my first unwinnable war.

Cassandra Clare

#14. Attempts to nail down "who we really are" most often serve as rhetorical pawns in unwinnable arguments fueled by competing agendas

Maggie Nelson

#15. There is no cowardice in removing yourself from a wildly unhealthy and unwinnable situation . . . You shouldn't feel like you have to play . . . you don't owe anyone anything. You don't have to be available to everyone. You can stop.

Scaachi Koul

#16. Do fight unwinnable battles. Sometimes they're worth it.

Jesse Petersen

#17. are all man, beautiful, because a real man knows when he has to turn and walk away from an unwinnable fight.

A.E. Via

#18. I want people to expect more from me because I expect more. If you don't set goals high, you're not trying.

Todd Helton

#19. I am still being recognized as Joanie and probably will as long as Happy Days is playing on TV and remembered by Happy Days fans. It has and will always be a pleasure and a honor for me to be a part of it.

Erin Moran

#20. Caught in the moorless place between young adulthood and middle age, we were just learning how to forgive ourselves.

Chloe Benjamin

#21. Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.

Jimi Hendrix

#22. I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a lot of scars.

Alex Garland

#23. In a society where people are obsessed with personal space, dogs have come to serve as welcome, neo-human mediators of loneliness and solitude.

Okey Ndibe

#24. Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time ... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#25. The first thing I do when I start my day is, I get down on my hands and knees and give thanks to God. Whenever I go outside of my house, the first thing I do is stop at the church.

Mark Wahlberg

#26. I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.

Rachel Cohn

#27. How is it possible to protect your loved ones from old heartaches?

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

#28. Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.

Karel Capek

#29. Israel claims it needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any threat to its existence. The Arab world in return feels that this is an imbalanced system; there is a sense of humiliation and impotence.

Mohamed ElBaradei