"Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word."

-- Margaret Thatcher

#Powerful Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a rope to the drowning, how he eagerly grasps it! With like eagerness and earnestness may the Spirit of God help you to lay hold on Christ.”

Source : Thomas Guthrie (1863). “The Way to Life: Sermons”, p.23
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
“In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.”
“I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.”
“The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.”

Source : Barbara Ehrenreich (2010). “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America”, p.221, Macmillan
“A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.”
“I don't take left-right on any of my positions. I take common sense and so again, if alternative energy saves money, it creates jobs, it enhances national security, it's good for the environment - I'm trying to find who's against it, right.”

Source : "Obama’s new energy plan: Why not put the fed's trillions into renewables?". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. June 2, 2014.
“We pretend to be strong because we are weak.”

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