I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams fears joys sorrows desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

Emigration is no longer a solution it's a defeat. People are risking death drowning every day but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death and to deny one is to deny the other.