A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.
There are times a women's just got to fight even if she knows it's a losing battle
My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.
You're fighting a losing battle if you expect the people who own the studios to make moral choices.
I'm covered with loser dust.
If you're shooting to make the world 10% better, you're in a smartness contest with everyone else in the world - and you're going to lose. There are too many smart people in the world.
If you want to decide the question of migration without asking your citizens against the will of the people, you are fighting a losing battle.
I think you're always fighting a losing battle when you're Scottish and I don't think that's right. I think the way that people look at Scottish football is wrong, but at the same time, we have to start proving it on the park and start showing it again.
I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me.
How noble. Oh we would fell many...-you with magic and blade, whilst my weapons would be tooth and claw-but it would be futile in the end. They are too numerous.... We cannot defeat them, only be defeated. - Saphira
