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Harper Lee142
American author 1926–2016Related quotes
“Sometimes you have to lose to win”
Gregory David Roberts (1952) Australian writer and bank robber
“There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.”
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
Attributed in The Little Book of Romanian Wisdom (2011) edited by Diana Doroftei and Matthew Cross
“Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.”
Lionel Messi (1987) Argentine association football player
“Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.”
Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire
Source: The Throne of Fire
Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist
Why America must stop the war now (23 October 2001) http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/23/afghanistan.terrorism8. <br class="br">Articles
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)
“Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.”
Tony Blair (1953) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Hansard http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/vo051109/debtext/51109-03.htm#51109-03_spmin10, House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 439, col. 302. <br class="br">9 November 2005, responding to Charles Kennedy in the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Questions. Blair was referring to the likely defeat in Parliament of additional powers to detain terror suspects without charge, which happened later that day. <br class="br">2000s
Naomi Wolf book The Beauty Myth
Source: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 8 : 'Beyond the Beauty Myth', p. 290
“Who never wins can rarely lose,
Who never climbs as rarely falls.”
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery
To James T. Fields, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)