A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.


Richard Milhous Nixon

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A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
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Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished whe...
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Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's f...
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My brother went to New Orleans when he was 19, ... Hes 72 now.
BARBARA UPTON
Every time hes supposed to be here, hes showed up,
BRENDA JONES
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is neve...
BEN STEIN
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is neve...
BEN STEIN
God is always on time, it may not be the time you are expecting, but hes on time. Just like he said ...
ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE
Hes the smartest dog Ive ever had,
PETER GOULD
Hes doing better than what we thought.
JAMIE KING
Hes ready to go every morning. He runs right over to the cruiser,
PETER GOULD
A man in love is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished.
ZSA ZSA GABOR
Doing nothing is very hard to do...you never know when you're finished.
LESLIE NIELSEN
When I got off the bike at the end of the Tour, it was finished,
LANCE ARMSTRONG
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
No one will remember the kick in the balls if hes bleeding everywhere...
NATHAN ELMO MELO
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
ZSA ZSA GABOR
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.
ZSA ZSA GABOR
The essence of this man Richard M. Nixon is loneliness.
HENRY KISSINGER
The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness.
HENRY KISSINGER
[Senior Rob Hudson sustained his good form with a 3-under par 33 to earn medalist honors for the var...
ALEX ADAMS
When this case is finished, he will walk out with that reputation intact.
PAUL GIANELLI
Dad was a bus driver, and when he finished work he would repair cars.
BRUNO TONIOLI
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
ZSA ZSA GABOR
The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.
NELSON DEMILLE
A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.
ZSA ZSA GABOR
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
ZSA ZSA GABOR
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
ZSA ZSA GABOR
The Fed's not finished,
JOHN LONSKI
When wise man quits learning,
he will be more senile onwards.
TOBA BETA
How do you know when you're finished making love? [responding to the question: How do you know when ...
JACKSON POLLOCK
Jesus neither said,"It will be finished", nor "It may be finished", but He said,"It is finished".
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL
When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Companies are far from finished when it comes to thinning out their ranks,
JOHN CHALLENGER
When Murrow goes after him, he's finished. That's when you know he's losing the public,
DAVID HALBERSTAM
only when they're finished pumping gas for paying customers.
CHUCK OLSEN
We're still talking. Though we want to get it finished soon, I just can't speculate on when it's goi...
DAN FLORES
Every job is different. I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you've finished...
ALFRED MOLINA
I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his op...
ROGER AILES
Everyone in this life is defeated. But a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
“A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think...
CARLOS CASTANEDA
I felt bad taking him out, but he was finished. Morgan lost a lot when those three batters got on. W...
NICK D'ORAZIO
I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I hav...
BILL DIXON
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creatio...
EDMUND BURKE
It is going to be beautiful in here when it is finished.
JAN SULLIVAN
Courage quits when it is tired; faith quits when it has won.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
(Dear kirk hammet, what kind of vegitarian are you? a lactose vegitarian, a ovum vegitarian, or a ve...
JAMES HETFIELD
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.
JOHN GREEN
And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and a...
BIBLE
Because I had to do everything in bits and pieces, I was never quite satisfied when I finished a sol...
BILL WYMAN
Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itsel...
WILLIAM BAZIOTES
I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house. I remember like it was yesterday...
MAGIC JOHNSON
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and g...
BIBLE
April 24 is when they're projecting having the lights finished for baseball.
CLAUDE TARVER
Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body, Jenny's like to cry; For she hes weet her petticoats In...
MISS SUSANNA BLAMIRE AND MISS CATHERINE GILPIN
The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
HENRY KISSINGER
The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up...
BOB WOODWARD
I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a pin drop...
ERNIE ACCORSI
Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.
LESLIE NIELSEN
The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.
NELSON DEMILLE
Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Ju...
P. J. O'ROURKE
I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.
JEFF FOXWORTHY
I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.
JEFF FOXWORTHY
I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.
JEFF FOXWORTHY
Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
LOUIS L'AMOUR
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
LOUIS L'AMOUR
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
LOUIS L'AMOUR
There will come a time, When you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning
PETER NIVIO ZARLENGA
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
LOUIS L'AMOUR
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth d...
BIBLE
When the project is finished, the contingency fund will probably be just about gone.
JEFF KRULL
Voters who disregarded Richard Nixon's involvement in the questionable ethics issue that led to ...
RONALD KESSLER
Everybody finished the song at different times. Dumbledore conducted their last few lines with his w...
J.K. ROWLING
When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.
TOMMY SMOTHERS
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.
LOUIS L'AMOUR
Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born li...
MOLLY IVINS
I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the p...
LARAINE DAY
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
LAO TSE
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
LAO TZU
Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocol...
ROBERT ORBEN
Our No. 1 goal is one thing, just regain the momentum we had when we finished. That I think we've do...
DOUG WILSON
When a book is written, it's a final product. But, when a script is finished, it's really just a blu...
JOHN HUGHES
There'll be a lot of turmoil; and we're not finished yet.
TOM BURNETT
The Fed's not finished. More rate hikes loom.
JOHN LONSKI
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
ERMA BOMBECK
When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR
Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done wit...
ELIZABETH GOUDGE
A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made com...
HOWARD HODGKIN
The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its...
ATOM EGOYAN
Failure is permanent only when a person quits.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN
When God finished putting together Dicky Roper, He took a deep breath and shuddered a bit, then He r...
JOHN LE CARRé
We finished with a lot of liquidity.
JEFF WEISS
When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're n...
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When my cell phone rang, I'd just finished cutting up my marriage mattress.
CLAIRE COOK
When this is finished, it will be a beautiful, pedestrian-friendly retail environment. It will have ...
FRED DELK
My father is openly gay. He really loved my mother, but their marriage fell apart. When they separat...
BEN CURTIS
He’s [Nixon] like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths and then...
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Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
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I have impeached myself by resigning.
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The sky is no longer the limit.
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Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us f...
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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
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Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
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You have to protect the privacy of the advice you get, or you'll never get the advice you need.
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You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
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If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
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Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
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Voters quickly forget what a man says.
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Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
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Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
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Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
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Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
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RICHARD M. NIXON
It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die None of ...
RICHARD M. NIXON
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American peo...
RICHARD M. NIXON
Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the d...
RICHARD M. NIXON
I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignati...
RICHARD M. NIXON
I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someon...
RICHARD M. NIXON
People in the media say they must look at the president with a microscope. Now, I don't mind a micro...
RICHARD M. NIXON
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
RICHARD M. NIXON
The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public fig...
RICHARD M. NIXON
By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours....
RICHARD M. NIXON
The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is les...
RICHARD M. NIXON
Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And ...
RICHARD M. NIXON
The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you’re rea...
RICHARD M. NIXON
Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.
RICHARD M. NIXON
When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.
RICHARD M. NIXON
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
RICHARD M. NIXON
I want you to stonewall it.
RICHARD M. NIXON
We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, an...
RICHARD M. NIXON
What was Watergate? A little bugging! Richard M
RICHARD M. NIXON
I have impeached myself by resigning.
RICHARD M. NIXON
It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you'...
RICHARD M. NIXON
Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them—and th...
RICHARD MILHOUSE NIXON
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
RICHARD M. NIXON
I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape...
RICHARD M. NIXON
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
RICHARD M. NIXON
The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards
RICHARD M. NIXON
If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anythin...
RICHARD M. NIXON
You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses storming around about this issue.
RICHARD M. NIXON
I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong tea...
RICHARD M. NIXON
My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that creat...
RICHARD M. NIXON
I concede!
RICHARD M. NIXON
What does that candyass think I sent him over there for?
RICHARD M. NIXON
The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the pe...
RICHARD M. NIXON
I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been...
RICHARD M. NIXON
Well, I'm not a crook.
RICHARD M. NIXON
I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
RICHARD M. NIXON
People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like.
RICHARD M. NIXON
Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my preside...
RICHARD M. NIXON
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
RICHARD M. NIXON
A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop...
RICHARD M. NIXON
Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate the man then ...
RICHARD M. NIXON
There was some really good food out there. There was a really good quail dish and ribs.
RICHARD M. NIXON
We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extingu...
RICHARD M. NIXON
There will be no whitewash in the White House.
RICHARD M. NIXON
Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished whe...
RICHARD M. NIXON