John le Carre Quotes

The fight ended. For both was victory. For both there was defeat.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. That's also what happens in almost every movie - someone is going to win and someone is going to lose.

Sportswriting is fascinating - descriptions of the opponents and the details of an event in which someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. Life is much longer and more complicated, and the outcomes are less clear-cut.

Maybe during the last sprint, sometimes you can lose, sometimes you can gain.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.

A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

In every fight, some fall.

Wars: You know how you start, but you never know how you end.

War is about strategic agendas and epic battles that define nations and shape history. War is about courage and heroism, but it is also about pain and suffering and sorrow and tragedy

It is a wide road that leads to the war and only a narrow path that leads home again.

At the end of the day, it's a fight, and anything can happen.

Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

Blood is the price of victory

Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.