“There's many lost but, tell me, who has won?”

— Bono

"Sunday Bloody Sunday"
Lyrics, War (1983)

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Irish rock musician, singer of U2 1960

Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Don't tell them anything. When it's over, tell them who won.”

Ernest King (1878–1956) United States Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations

King's reply when asked for a public relations strategy for the U.S. Navy in World War II. As quoted in Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations (1966) by Robert Heinl, p. 258

“Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.”

Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) American playwright and novelist

As quoted in "The Notation of the Heart" by Edmund Fuller, in The American Scholar Reader (1960) edited by Hiram Hayden and Betsy Saunders

“Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

Source: The Hero With a Thousand Faces

“Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter V

“How many times have I lost my way?
Every time, the one who gave me a hand
Was you.”

Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress

Voyage
Lyrics, Rainbow

“Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won: the bravery of my troops hitherto saved me from the greater evil; but to win such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expens of so many gallant friends, could only be termed a heavy misfortune but for the result to the public.”

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852) British soldier and statesman

Letter from the field of Waterloo (June 1815), as quoted in Decisive Battles of the World (1899) by Edward Shepherd Creasy. Quoted too in Memorable Battles in English History: Where Fought, why Fought, and Their Results; with the Military Lives of the Commanders by William Henry Davenport Adams; Editor Griffith and Farran, 1863. p. 400.
Context: My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won: the bravery of my troops hitherto saved me from the greater evil; but to win such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expens of so many gallant friends, could only be termed a heavy misfortune but for the result to the public.

“Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

“Lithuania, my country! You are as good health;
How much one should prize you, he only can tell, Who has lost you…”

Adam Mickiewicz Pan Tadeusz

Litwo! Ojczyzno moja! ty jesteś jak zdrowie;
Ile cię trzeba cenić, ten tylko się dowie, Kto cię stracił...
Opening lines, translated by Marcel Weyland
Pan Tadeusz (Sir Thaddeus) http://www.ap.krakow.pl/nkja/literature/polpoet/mic_pan.htm

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