"One is defeated only when one accepts defeat."

-- Ferdinand Foch

#Perseverance Quotes #Defeat Quotes #Defeated Quotes

“Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that's where my responsibility ends. But I just don't wait for ideas. I look for them. Constantly. And if I don't use the ideas that I find, they're going to quit showing up.”
“I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.”

Source : "Friendship Village Love Stories".
“Love fattens on smooth words.”
“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties”

Source : Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage
“The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees.”

Source : Scott Heim (2008). “We Disappear: A Novel”, Harper Perennial
“There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.”
“Don't forget to tell your favorite people that you love them.”
“Advertising is a tax for having an unremarkable product”

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