Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

The words 'give up,' 'raise the white flag' do not exist in my vocabulary.

Eventually you get tired of losing.

Because if you're going to lose, lose. I'm serious.

You can't. You just have to.

This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.

There is no choice for him but to believe. He has nothing left to give in offering.

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

I'm neither giving up nor giving in.

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it.

Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.

Bingo pup. It's a lesson best learned early. They're all afraid of us." He strolled over to Derek. "You're trying to be a good kid, aren't you? You think that'll show them they're wrong. So how'd that working out for you? Guess what? They don't care. To them, you're a monster, and nothing you do--or don't do--will change their minds. My advice? Give 'em what they want. It's a short, brutal life." He smiled. "Live it up." Derek stared straight ahead, patiently waiting. "He can't hear a word I'm saying, can he?" Liam said. "Nope.

No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to. It's all I really have that belongs to me and I'm going to say what happens to it. And it's going to stop. And I'm going to stop it. So. Let's just have a good time.

Even if you rise up a thousand times, your side will never achieve victory. ~Ulquiorra

I decided to go along with it. If he tried to give me the runaround, I would bolt. I didn't have time to waste on vague answers and evasive language. Matt and Rhys were captive, and Rhys couldn't even sit down.

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.