He’d thought it would be the right thing to say, but she scoffed a little… and that, more than anything—more than the prospect of having his ribs crushed in or his face pulled off or his neck stretched on a rope—scared him out of his wits.
V.S. CarnesTags: war romance bitterness defeat ransom
The best way to compete is to get defeat.
Santosh KalwarTags: inspirational fight defeat compete warrior
Alas, how easily things go wrong!
A sigh too much, a kiss too long
And there follows a mist and a weeping rain
And life is never the same again
Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.
Dejan StojanovicTags: wisdom poetry courage literature shallow waiting quotes thoughts defeat important delay deceived poetry-quotes quotes-to-live-by literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic
It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.
Imran KhanTags: defeat
A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had told ourselves early in the day that the battle was lost, so it was lost.
Leo TolstoyTags: war victory battle defeat defeatism win
Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.
J.G. BallardTags: education children exploitation culture defeat domination submission
Sergei doesn’t yearn for love…he thirsts for domination, and now he has finally achieved it.
Melika Dannese HickTags: resignation defeat hopelessness realization ilyse-charpentier melika-dannese-lux city-of-lights
Takan had never truly defeated Zyid. Zyid had given his life to calm Takan's soul.
Isamu FukuiTags: revenge defeat takan zyid
Umasi kept walking, out of sight and into the glittering night. Meahwhile, Zen lay alone, defeated on the cold ground, knowing that he had truly been left behind. Then the memories returned, and for the first time in his life, he cried.
Isamu FukuiTags: zen defeat abandoned umasi
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