Loses Quotes by Steven Erikson, Orson Welles, Jay Leno, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Manfred Rommel, Jerry Rice and many others.
Not even the lichen of the tundra is at peace. All is struggle, all is war for dominance. Those who lose, vanish. -And we’re no different you’re saying- We are, soldier. We possess the privilege of choice. The gift of foresight. Though often we come too late in acknowledging responsibilities….
Joke number 1, I have a bit of a problem with jokes, bit of a handicap for a comedian obviously, um, I tend to bail out of the joke, I lose commitment in it, I’ll give you an example: Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It’s perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they’ll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.
For me, the photography, in its purest form, is a variant of the fable. Another way of saving the appearances – a way of signifying, through this fabulous capture, that this supposed real world is always about to lose its meaning and its reality.
When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well.
Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.
Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others – only to lose it over themselves.
You never lose by giving it all to Jesus.
Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.
People are so afraid of hearing “No” that they often don’t even try. You have nothing to lose by just asking! A good friend of mine once told me, “Harv, a closed mouth won’t get fed.” Open your mouth! Say something if negotiations aren’t going the way you’d like.
I used to be very quick, I would be able to leave the room and be back before you noticed. When you can’t do that anymore you need to change the style of how you do things. But I’m very interested in life and you don’t want to lose that.
Do not think that if you surrender to God you will be loser. You will not lose anything except bondage, frustration and suffering. That is all you will lose.
My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.
Don’t wait until there is tragedy in your life. Don’t wait until you lose somebody. Don’t wait until it’s too late. Appreciate the beautiful people that you have in your life now.
It’s hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.
We can lose so much of what we’ve gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we’ve come to take for granted.
The better team sometimes loses.
Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.
This is my philosophy on all life, not just when it comes to love. All the best things are terrifying, but that’s why they’re the best things. Nothing worth having comes easy. You have to be afraid to want it, afraid to lose it, afraid to try. If you feel that, then you know you’re on to a winner.
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
Don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. Don’t sell out.
Romance goes like this: Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl again. The end. It can’t be any other way.
If one drops dead in the street, friends and loved ones are shocked, stricken, but a long lingering death loses all nobility and drama, while relatives and friends await the inevitable end in a succession of weary anti-climaxes.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril… Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
I don’t believe in competition for artistic things. I just like the atmosphere of the Cannes festival. I don’t want to win anything or lose anything.
The one who loses his head no longer cares about his hair.
This wasn’t strong-willed, fly-by-the-seat-of-her-miniskirt Kate that I’d befriended last year. You think you know a girl- and then she goes and loses her virginity at a Mardi Gras party and goes soft.
Let’s say Donald Trump loses but it’s close. That could change the whole way the job of being a politician shifts – that to succeed in politics, you have to be a caricature of what a politician is supposed to be like.
Sometimes it’s easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.
Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States–first,murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.
It’s funny, you can get over the win pretty quick and get ready for the next opponent. When you lose, it just eats at you…. What could we have done? What should I have done? All those things. Just part of playing professional sports and sports in general.
For you to win, no one needs to lose.
Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.
An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world to lose, is that afterward one cannot be sure that one was somewhere or had newly experienced anything. If you aren’t much in the world, how do you know you are “out of this world”?
I learn from winning, because it’s much easier to point out things when you lose. But I think the alternate competitors can point out a lot of things when you win.
If people are not safe, they will not make themselves vulnerable. If they feel too comfortable, they can become complacent or lose their curiosity. They can become intellectually lazy about what matters most.
I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
So as I thought about it, the most important “tool” you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you’re dead.
The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don’t think anyone with any other weight to carry is going to get to same kind of sympathy – except perhaps people who lose a child.
I think that when you live in a world with limits… when you’ve met everyone and seem everything you’re going to see – you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life
We’re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.
The perception that Donald Trump has softened on immigration or is about to soften on immigration has some on the right concerned that he could lose support among his most loyal base of supporters, though he`d been drawn to his hard-line positions on immigration early in the campaign.
The idea that men ‘lose control’ around a woman in a short skirt is insulting to men, completely relieves perpetrators of responsibility, and erases and ignores male victims.
Team members need to feel trusted and valued, and micromanaging communicates the opposite. Founders who are prone to manage every detail of their businesses will ultimately kill themselves as well as lose the support of team members. Learn to delegate key tasks and give credit.
Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.
You and I won’t lose each other, I will always find you again. No matter how well you hide. I’m unstoppable.
The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it’s people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.
You can’t lose the game. You can’t go wrong. It’s not part of the plan. There is no way not to get where you are going. There’s no way to miss your destination. If God is your target, you’re in luck, because God is so big, you can’t miss.
Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.
Any time you risk big you often risk losing big. You can win big but you can also lose big, but you have to be willing to take those risks.
Some things are sacred. Until you act like they’re not. Then you lose them
It’s my experience that you really can’t lose when you try the truth.
It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It’s as simple as that.
If you own the problem, you own the customer. If you lose the problem, you lose the customer. It’s that simple.
Basketball is a game and their primary reason for participating in the sport is simply for the pleasure they experience while playing. Don’t be afraid to lose. Have fun while you’re busy playing hard and playing smart.
The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.
When you lose a game or don’t play well you can’t wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.
It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact.
Be mindful of everything going on around you and always be on point but don’t be so on point that you lose that ability to be what it was that got you out there.
The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.
I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.
If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.
I have nothing to lose, but something to gain.
It was close; but that’s the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.
They only fall, that strive to move, Or lose, that care to keep.
What’s been important with Flickr is the community that’s been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating and sharing great content. If we lose that at some point then I think we have potential issues, but so far we’ve been able to do a really good job of maintaining that.
If you don’t value what you have, you’re sure to lose it.
You will feel discouraged; you will lose confidence in your abilities; you will be bored with the characters–and the only way to overcome these obstacles is to write your way through them. And writing always works.
There have been concerns about the long-term prospect that we lose control of certain kinds of intelligences. I fundamentally don’t think that’s going to happen.
Once you lose somebody so close to you, you become very overprotective.
To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.
Working at the scene of the action, I have adopted Robert Capa’s saying: ‘If your photographs aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.’ But in retrospect I add a corollary: if you’re too close to events, you lose perspective.
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.
When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.
In the end, we have nothing to lose by opening our hearts.
You cannot lose what you never had.
Let the children use it, let the children lose it, let all the children boogie.
I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.
Tomorrow, I am fifty-two years old. And I want to say unequivocally that I am very happy to be alive, that being alive is better than being dead. And if I have just one wish it is this: that you work with all your might and love with all your heart and never lose hope and never give up.
Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.
America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.
My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.
Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they’re still good.
The rules themselves are clear enough, and within everyone’s reach. But many forces, both within ourselves and in the environment, stand in the way. It is a little like trying to lose weight: everyone knows what it takes, everyone wants to do it, yet it is next to impossible for so many.
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Win without boasting, lose without excuses – internalize your failures and externalize your victories.
I don’t ever want to be a person that I’m not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that’s the time when they lose themselves.
I never lose that terror of ‘this is my last job, I’ll never work again.’ You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you’ve built.
I’m not talking about losing [agricultural] diversity in the same way that you lose your car keys. I’m talking about losing it in the same way that we lost the dinosaurs: actually losing it, never to be seen again.
When you know both yourself as well as your competition, you are never in danger. To know yourself and not others, gives you half a chance of winning.В Knowing neither yourself or your competition puts you in a position to lose.
Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.
There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
People have learned to escape Reality very well but too often lose their way back.
You win some and you lose some. Unless you’re Virgil, then you lose them all.
She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.
As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.
How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I’m feeling sad.
Never lose hope
when the beloved
sends you away.
If you’re abandoned
if you’re left hopeless
tomorrow for sure
you’ll be called again.
If the door is shut
right in your face
keep waiting with patience
don’t leave right away.
Seeing your patience
your love will soon
summon you with grace
raise you like a champion.
when the beloved
sends you away.
If you’re abandoned
if you’re left hopeless
tomorrow for sure
you’ll be called again.
If the door is shut
right in your face
keep waiting with patience
don’t leave right away.
Seeing your patience
your love will soon
summon you with grace
raise you like a champion.
When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.
Never lose your temper, except intentionally.
Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.
It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how many people remember you when you die.
There is a point you can definitely lose the audience and sometimes you don’t know where it is.
I have encountered in this world riff-raff and good people. I lose. I win. I defend myself when I am attacked. I take when someone has taken from me. But I beg you to believe me; I have never done an act of espionage against France. Never. Never.
Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that
He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.
In organizations where nothing much happens regardless of whether you do something exceptional or just show up in the morning, the best people lose heart and motivation is reduced near the lowest common denominator.
My mom always says, ‘If you don’t believe in something, you’ll lose yourself completely.’
Don’t ever lose sight of who you are and your own power.
You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that’s what is gonna make a swimmer.
Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I’d ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.
Where you live is important. It is where you dream. You lose or gain a tremendous amount of energy there.
War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything goes with it.
I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.
I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for – if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it’s a good idea.
When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that’s really the only place to go. It’s the only place to remain.
I’m someone who doesn’t have anything to lose.
Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind.
Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.
My whole life I’ve hated to lose, no doubt about it. I’ve been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That’s who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you’re perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.
I always know it’s Sunday because I wake up feeling apologetic. That’s one of the cool things about being a Catholic . . . it’s a multifaceted experience. If you lose the faith, chances are you’ll keep the guilt, so it isn’t as if you’ve been skunked altogether.
Nut shrugged. “Set had always been Set, for better or worse. But he is still part of our family. It is difficult to lose any member of your family . . . is it not?
Let us remember that postponement of tapering is only that-a postponementLet’s not lose the chance, the warning that we have been given, because this is going to come back and what we need to do is put our house in order before.
I just don’t lose weight easily.
Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.
You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.
When you hit send on a text or tweet, you lose ownership of it – but you don’t lose responsibility. Every text you have sent may have been saved and could be out there waiting to be used in ways you didn’t imagine. Even the most simple of posts can be used out of context, often unintentionally, and change your future.
As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven’s children, Satan‘s temptations lose power in your life.
The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.
Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.
No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.
People who are in a position of finding out that they’re at risk for some illness, whether it’s breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid to get that information – even though it might be useful to them – because of fears that they’ll lose their health insurance or their job.
Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.
I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They’re so earnest about it. But that’s true of so many things.
If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.
To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
I am a sore loser. I’ve always been like that ever s’nce I started playin’ sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win.
You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone – profusely. But don’t apologize for being who you are.
Struggling with the world and having the problem of you vs. the world is a really big problem. You’re going to lose because the world is so much bigger than you, and longer lasting.
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
A player senses when a coach loses confidence in him. That, more than anything, can throw a player.
You gotta be a good sport! So when I would lose, I would say, “That guy was better than I was; what do I have to do to be better next time?”
If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn’t good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?
You could play well and still lose.
We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life.
Today it was win or lose. But my victory yesterday and the downhill globe boosted my confidence. My record in Cortina was also a liberation.
Oftentimes, people start with something, whatever it is, and it’s great, but over the years, it loses its focus or way and corners get cut. Some people are fine with that, but I’m not.
Nobody wants to lose. But I don’t care what my win-loss record is. At the end of the day, I don’t look at it.
The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won’t be going to the greatest sports event in this country…You’re forgotten by Thanksgiving.
It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.
Perspective – Use It or Lose It.
The GOP can’t even envision winning the White House if we lose a significant percentage of the Hispanic vote.
It is believed that the average person uses no more than 10% of his or her potential. Ten percent! We’re not even scratching the surface of what we’re capable of. We are all blessed with a continent of unexplored gifts and talents. Use them, or lose them!
Leaving America means renouncing your citizenship, moving out of the country and leaving family and friends behind. You can retain your citizenship if you like, but you’ll still be away from loved ones and still be paying taxes. You lose all the good stuff about America and have to keep all the bad stuff.
That sort of lack of awareness on the part of an activist about the constraints of our political system and the constraints on this office, I think, sometimes would leave me to mutter under my breath. Very rarely did I lose it publicly. Yeah, usually I’d just smile.
You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.
If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.
No one can lose either the past or the future – how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? … It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.
Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. … The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.
He don’t know what it is to lose, so I gotta teach him something that he doesn’t know yet.
I’ve always said, “You make a lot of money in Major League Baseball, and it’s all guaranteed, so what do you have to lose by going all out?” .
I hope that memory is valued – that we do not lose memory.
I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.
Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she was a woman and running for vice-president. But Obama couldn’t say, ‘I’m black and I’m running for president.’ It couldn’t come out of his mouth. He couldn’t say that because, if he did, he’d lose votes.
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
Well, weight you can always lose, but hair you can’t get back.
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.
One of life’s fundamental truths states, “Ask and you shall receive.” As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.
Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.
I Will Follow is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
There is no virtue in denying the law of gravity, and there should be no virtue in denying the limitations of government. … The more we glorify government, the more liberties we will lose.
It doesn’t matter if you win or lose, until you lose.
Don’t you think it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends
Those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Notice who is in the locker room after you lose, not after you win.
Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant.
You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.
This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
I think it’s really important to sustain your dreams. Because a person without a dream will lose his or her will to live. Even if it’s just a small dream, it means a lot to that person.
Women can be pressured to be perfect in many ways. And in our efforts to be “responsible” in every way, you might lose time and energy. If you truly want to direct [a film], you may have to let go of pleasing everyone on a consistent basis.
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
If you can give it, I can take it
‘Cause if this heart is gonna break it’s gonna take a lot to break it
I know tonight, somebody’s gonna win the fight
So if you’re so tough, come on and prove it
Your heart is down for the count and you know you’re gonna lose it
Tonight you’re gonna go down in flames
Just like Jesse James
‘Cause if this heart is gonna break it’s gonna take a lot to break it
I know tonight, somebody’s gonna win the fight
So if you’re so tough, come on and prove it
Your heart is down for the count and you know you’re gonna lose it
Tonight you’re gonna go down in flames
Just like Jesse James
I’ve had unsatisfying experiences, but mostly it’s about communication, which is why I make an effort to talk to the director beforehand to make sure we see eye-to-eye as creative individuals. If [good] communication isn’t present, you can lose something and end up very unhappy.
Never be shaken, no matter what happens or what others may say. Never be flustered; never lose confidence. This is the way we should strive to live our lives. Being able to do so is a sign of genuine character.
The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers
I think bravery is when you’re willing to really put yourself on the line and maybe lose out, financially – and be able to say exactly what motivates you and what inspires you and what you find completely unacceptable in humanity and in culture.
Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can’t lose if your heart is in your work, but you can’t win if your heart is not in it.
I’m ready to lose my life if that’s what Portugal needs to win. I’ll play vs USA even if I play with one leg.
Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
There’s something very intoxicating about playing someone so volatile and someone who can lose his temper at any second.
I think where [Donald Trump] loses most hawkish republicans is when he talking about how much he likes [Vladimir] Putin. That should make any person who believe in the American exceptionalism, incredibly uncomfortable.
If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything.
When you lose, you get up, you make it better, you TRY AGAIN.
You hear about bombings in other countries, or numbers like “10,000 people died” – you hear that number and you think, “Well, I saw that yesterday in a film, and that didn’t look so bad.” Younger viewers, in particular, lose perspective on reality.
A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.
I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.
It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.
People think I’m an artist because my films lose money.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
A lot of times I did lose yards on a run, but it wasn’t for lack of trying.
although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.
The wise coach takes all the heat when his players lose, and gives them all the credit when they win.
Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some – or occasionally lose.
When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective…. There is something about a war like this that makes people insensitive. It dulls the conscience. It strengthens the forces of reaction, and it brings into being bitterness and hatred and violence.
I had been very angry, angry enough to lose control; none of us are above it.
Trust takes one second to lose and a lifetime to rebuild.
Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950’s when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months.
A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.
It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn’t know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
This field is so spacious that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way.
Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You’ve got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.
When a country loses its identity, it no longer knows what it is or where it comes from and what its real worth is. So it dissolves.
Whether you win a match or lose a match, in terms of your emotions, it’s important to be pretty levelheaded.
When you fall in love with the system, you lose the ability to grow.
I’m representing the people of the United States and I’m going to represent them as somebody should represent them, not how they’ve been represented in the past where we lose to every single country.
I have changed nothing, my style of play is still that of a child. I know that above all it is my job and that I should approach it in another way, but one must not lose sight of the fact that football is a game. It is imperative one plays to amuse oneself, to be happy. That is what children do and I do the same thing.
It’s a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose…
He who doesn’t lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
To lose is not always failure.
It is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage. That you lose hope. I don’t want to lose hope. I get through every day. I’m pretty good. I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk.
I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.
I don’t wanna gain the whole world and lose my soul.
I didn’t want to lose the human scale.
Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids
But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.
Pro wrestling was there, and I was good at it, thank God. I started getting a lot of offers, but unfortunately, at WWE I was under a tight leash. I think it had a lot to do with The Rock making the transition, and me possibly being the next guy – you know, the company didnt want to lose another top performer.
Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war.
The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.’s part in C. C. loses A.’s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever – stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.
In order to WIN the game, you must first not LOSE it.
I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.
If [Donald] Trump loses narrowly, it will make it much harder for the GOP to unify. Under that scenario, the Trumpists are likely to argue that the election was lost because the Republican establishment failed to rally around the choice their own voters made.
Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is – marriage.
We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.
“I would like to apologize” may sound like an apology, but it is no more an actual apology than saying “I would like to lose weight” makes you suddenly slimmer.
Don’t compare yourself to others. That’s when you start to lose confidence in yourself.
If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.
To think of losing is to lose already.
I’ve lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister won this war.
To reason about love is to lose reason.
I think you lose your innocence when you have kids, because the world suddenly becomes a much more dangerous place.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
I like the songs to appear very simple and to flow by without any kind of hiccup, but there has to be this impression of other currents underneath. Like if the songs aren’t, on some level, multidimensional, we lose interest in them.
What e’er you are
That in this desert inaccessible,
Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.
That in this desert inaccessible,
Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.
Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau days, imploded years. Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect, abjuring motivation, consistency, good sense.
There’s so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It’s nice to know where you come from.
If you’re not doing what is best for your body, you are the one who lose.
One moment I’m perfectly fine and the next I feel a wave of nausea, then panic. Then I can’t catch my breath and I know I’m about to lose control and all I want to do is escape. Except that the one thing I can’t escape from is the very thing I want to run away from… me.
In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
When one loses, it’s easy to focus on the refereeing decisions.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a critical test in her political career. Merkel has been under increasing pressure over the European migrant crisis, and recent polls suggest Angela Merkel, who’s been the German leader for more than a decade, could lose an election in her political home state.
So what if America loses its empire? We never should have had one in the first place.
When you lose someone, you don’t lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time.
If you play angry, you lose what you’re supposed to do. On defense we just read our keys and play fast.
When Sunday loses its fundamental meaning and becomes subordinate to a secular concept of weekend dominated by such things as entertainment and sport, people stay locked within a horizon so narrow that they can no longer see the heavens.
…if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it’s better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn’t what you wish. That was what made me lose faith….. But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.
Let us never lose hope! God loves us always, even with our mistakes and sins.
God is watching us, but He loves us so much that He can’t take His eyes off us. We may lose sight of God, but He never loses sight of us.
If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.
I think that once you lose your fear, and understand that your position is God-given, then, if you lose your fear of what man can do, it enables you to do some things that God wants you to do.
All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
We’ve got a lot to gain and nothing to lose.
Pain and guilt can’t be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They’re the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don’t want my pain taken away! I need my pain!
Each morning is a new beginning of our life. Each day is a finished whole. The present day marks the boundary of our cares and concerns. It is long enough to find God or lose Him, to keep faith or fall into disgrace.
Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don’t use it.
…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.
Something can happen in your life, and you might want and need something different from your spouse. Most people forget that you have to create relationships. The allure of the first years settles down, and at that moment, you better start creating it; otherwise, you’re going to lose out.
I’m already crazy. I’m a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don’t think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that’s my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.
That’s the good part of dying; when you’ve nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.
Indecision is the most unsexy thing on the planet. I don’t know if I’m sexy but I think decisiveness is sexy. I also lose trust and faith in them when I realise I’m a bit on my own and that’s a very disheartening feeling.
If I lose you, I lose everything
If we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster!
I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you’re rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.
Love yourself – Do it now! Don’t wait until you get well or lose the weight, or get the new job, or the new relationship.
Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they’re – they are gay or transgender.
Even if I am being conservative, I don’t see how Obama can lose.
To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean – that’s scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.
A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it’s time for me to move away from the game.
It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you place the blame.
True merit does not depend on the times or on fashion. Those who have no other advantage than courtly manners lose it when they are away from court. But good sense, knowledge, and wisdom make their possessors knowledgeable and beloved in all ages and in all times.
If man were never to fade away … but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.
If acids win – you lose!
Don’t do what we did. Make sure it’s right and make sure it’s what you wanna do. Make sure it’s actually a good deal, that you’re not going to lose out too much on it.
Everybody loses the thing that made them.
What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.
Lend only what you can afford to lose.
Stats don’t matter. I care about winning, not stats. If I score 0 points and we win I’m happy. If I score 50, 60 points, break the records, and we lose, I’m pissed off. ‘Cause I knew I did something wrong. I’ll have a hell of a season if I win the championship and average 20 points a game.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose – to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!
There is never a reason to lose hope. Jesus says: “I am with you until the end of the world.
In the end, everyone loses everyone.
A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
We are currently facing countless hurdles and obstacles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.
Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn’t do any good if you lose.
Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.
[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.
I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.
A divided heart loses both worlds.
I’m still an Apple person, but let’s just say the magic aura is gone. In a way that was a sad thing to lose, but I feel better for it. It’s just a machine now, not linked with any greater mission or mystique.
You are an individual, and you came here on your own as a child, and you will die on your own. The fact that you may live in a community or with your family does not change the solitude of your spiritual journey. By cluttering your life with many things, you soon lose sight of who you are and what you came for.
I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.
Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.
President Obama had beer with four unemployed construction workers. And Obama asked the guys what was it like to lose their jobs, and they were like, ‘Oh, you’ll see.’
You don’t get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.
The institution of marriage works better when there’s a spiritual connection. If you’re marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective.
I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.
Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war
Thank God I don’t live in Los Angeles. I think if you’re there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.
I don’t think I’m going to get so mature that I lose touch with the whatever wounded part of myself that feels the need to be funny. I’m already old enough that I realize that’s not going to happen.
Americans are finally realizing that once you lose land, you can’t get it back.
Use it or lose it is a cliche because it’s true.
I hate to lose more than I like to win.
Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I really don’t mind because I expect them to; but when we win I’m so happy – much happier than any Arsenal supporter could ever be.
I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.
Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It’s made it easier for me to make a living.
The mental game of ‘holding out,’ not eating for as long as possible, at least for me, was a really unhealthy mental place. I would inevitably lose that battle and eat too much in one sitting and end up really mad at myself.
Losing builds character. You know who said that? A loser! Guy who got his ass stomped every day, basketball, football, baseball, lose, lose, lose and lose. All right, I’m talking about me.
A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams.
It’s okay to lose your pride over someone you love. Don’t lose someone you love though over your pride!
Heroes aren’t always the ones who win. They’re the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don’t give up. That’s what makes them heroes.
The biggest surprise has been making the adjustment after losing a game. In the NBA you could lose tonight and you have to put that game behind you because you have another game the next night.
If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.
I picture it like Judgement Day,’ he says finally, his eyes on the water. ‘We’ll rise up out of our bodies and find each other again in spirit form. We’ll meet in that new place, all of us together, and first it’ll seem strange, and pretty soon it’ll seem strange that you could ever lose someone, or get lost.
It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose!
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government to come to their help. That is a vicious circle of cause and effect.
We have to gamble, and sometimes lose as George Ainslie argues; this keeps the appetite for life sharp.
Trust God to take care of you in all circumstances. Do you realize what the enemy will lose if you surrender and trust God?
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.
Do not cut lose from your longings – for what are we without our longings?
No. No. I don’t listen to anyone except my … inner child anyway. If someone had said to me, Amy, lose a stone which they wouldn’t – I don’t think I would have listened anyway.
Walk through Santa Monica and try to find somebody who knows a young man or woman who’s in this war. Here, war is an intellectual concept. If you lose your son or daughter, it’s no longer an intellectual matter.
Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you’re time is over. They find you out and send you packing.
We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!
In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
I’d rather lose a 3:58 mile than win one in 4:10.
When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
You win only if you aren’t afraid to lose.
And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.
I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.
Risk no more that you can afford to lose, and also risk enough so that a win is meaningful.
When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don’t want to be the one to lose the game, but I’m thinking, What do I have to do to win?
Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.
Being a man is the continuing battle for one’s life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.
Aladdin is a good soul. He is very selfless and usually does things for other people, but as he falls in love, he loses himself a little bit and starts to become someone that he is not. But he is a person with good intentions and has good people surrounding him who lead him back to where he is supposed to be.
It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.
Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.
God, though this life is but a wraith, Although we know not what we use, Although we grope with little faith, Give me the heart to fight and lose.
She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.
If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.
I didn’t want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.
I say, ‘Don’t lose your heart, Rube.’ And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, ‘I’m not tryin’ to lose it, Cam. I’m tryin’ to find it.
When a man’s knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.
One could even argue that we have a duty to create and pass on stories about choice because once a person knows such stories, they can’t be taken away from him. He may lose his possessions, his home, his loved ones, but if he holds on to a story about choice, he retains the ability to practice choice.
It’s okay to lose; just don’t lose the lesson.
Most People are wretched more by the Fears of what may come, than what they endure at present. … a manifest Contradiction to good Sense; for who, with the right use of that, wou’d lose the Enjoyment of a present Comfort, to lament a Misfortune only in Supposition; which ten to one never comes to pass.
Art without color would lose much of its purpose.
I am vulnerable, starved for kindness. And when I receive it, I lose my mind.
When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit.
Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.
I’ve always been skeptical of people who say they lose themselves in a part. Someone once came up to Spencer Tracy and asked, “Aren’t you tired of always playing Tracy?” Tracy replied, “What am I supposed to do, play Bogart?” You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks.
Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don’t become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings.
You learn how to persevere… to have discipline, you learn to lose, you learn to win, you learn how to not quit.
Embrace your dreams and never lose faith in yourself. Your dreams can come true if you work hard enough for them.
I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.
Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others.
Patience is heavenly, obedience is noble, forgiveness is merciful, and exaltation is godly; and he that holds out faithful to the end shall in no wise lose his reward.В A good man will endure all things to honor Christ, and even dispose of the whole world, and all in it, to save his soul.
Be grateful. Find something to be grateful for. Don’t do too many things that make you feel like you deserve to lose because we do program our own computers. I believe there is a plus and a minus column and if you end up on the minus column, your own conscience will make you lose.
When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.
The scoreboard can’t make you a loser. If you walk off the field with your head up, you don’t lose. You don’t hang your head for nobody. People in the stands think you’re the greatest or the worst – their opinion doesn’t make a difference. The only opinion that makes any difference is your own opinion of yourself.
Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.
I’m a big child at heart. I think it’s important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.
If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.
One shouldn’t be afraid to lose; this is sport. One day you win; another day you lose. Of course, everyone wants to be the best. This is normal. This is what sport is about. This is why I love it.
In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.
Coach isn’t the one playing. The players do that. The coach can only help with planning so if the team loses, I don’t think the coach is not as accountable as we hold him as a nation.
Every time you win, you’re reborn; when you lose, you die a little.
The Democrats can’t lose, so they got rid of Bob Torricelli, way beyond when it was permissible. The time for a replacement had passed, but the New Jersey Supreme Court made up of Democrat hacks said, “Hey, if our candidate can’t go, sure you can put in a replacement.”
We’re supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we’re ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now.
I wish to extend an invitation to solidarity to everyone, and I would like to encourage those in public office to make every effort to give new impetus to employment, this means caring for the dignity of the person, but above all I would say do not lose hope.
It was a national disgrace to lose the ERA, but of course we will start, and have done so, all over again. … There is no deadline for equality in our society.
I’ve always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone
Every minute that we lose will cost us great losses later that we will not be able to afford.
What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses.
There exists a “fear of freedom” of selfhood, which makes people want to submerge themselves in the mass and confession is one of the obvious means by which they can do so, for thereby they lose those traits which cause them to feel separate.
Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.
He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.
In a Christian Theocracy, you’ll never be Christian enough. There’s always going to be somebody there with another version of Christianity that is more Christian than you and you’re going to lose the freedom to make the choice because you didn’t defend the Separation of Church and State when you had the chance.
We’re all going to face extreme stress in our lives, there’s no one who is going to escape that. That’s the one thing, rich or poor, I don’t care who you are, you’re going to lose.
Our philosophy has been to be fiscally conservative, so we can be operationally aggressive. We’re not using borrowed money to grow. So we’ll put up a store just to get there before the competition. If it doesn’t work, we’ll close it and lose a little equity. It won’t kill us.
Because we do not rest, we lose our way.
Sometimes you have to lose major championships before you can win them. It’s the price you pay for maturing. The more times you can put yourself in pressure situations, the more times you compete, the better off you are.
If you’re going to be a Christian, you’re going to change. You’re going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.
I didn’t want the public in my personal life at all – I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I’d lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You’ve got to protect that!
Do not lose heart, even if you should discover that you lack qualities necessary for the work to which you are called. He who called you will not desert you, but the moment you are in need he will stretch out his saving hand.
He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.
If you lose your reason, you lose it into the hands of God….It’s the only place where anything is safe. And when you’re dead it’s only what’s there you’ll have. Nothing else.
If we lose our money while traveling, think how frantically we search for it! In the same way, if we are unable to do japa even for a brief moment, we should grieve: ‘Alas, Lord, I have lost so much time!’ If there is such anguish, even the time we spend sleeping will not be wasted.
If We Lose…We’re All Screwed.
…Basketball doesn’t care what color your skin is. It doesn’t care what language you speak or what religion you practice. It doesn’t care if you’re big or small, fast or slow. It just asks you to play, to complete, to lose with dignity, to win humility.
Activists need to get the facts right. One of the big assets we have on our side is the truth, and we lose credibility and power if w e’re loose with that.
Choose love. Teach love. And never lose your curiosity.
I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I’ve lost.
Sometimes the autobiographical link in each story is very literal, like I did work at The Texas School for the Blind, and I did once lose a mattress out of the back of a friend’s truck.
The dance is not where we lose ourselves. But where we find ourselves.
Whatever happens, do not lose hold of the two main ropes of life – hope and faith.
A guy knows he’s in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days.
If you have a character who wins all the time – well, if you have a character that loses and wins, it makes him more alive. Bugs Bunny, for example, didn’t always win.
He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.
I don’t understand the word ‘lose’, I only understand the word ‘learn’
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
I’d rather lose and live in Provo than win and live in Laramie
I got involved in cocaine because I needed to lose weight. I felt the pressure living here. I took it to wake me up and keep me moving.
They’re (California Angels) like the American League All-Star team, and that’s their problem, the American League All-Star team always loses.
Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it.
When I started, these [yoga] were very functional practices, as I said, productive to lose weight, or whatever, and now it has become a very spiritual kind of practice.
If the game is designed for you to lose, don’t play that game. Play a different one.
It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.
If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.
Without even knowing it, we are assaulted by a high note of urgency all the time. We end up pacing ourselves to the city rhythm whether or not it’s our own. In time we even grow hard of hearing to the rest of the world. Like a violinist stuck next to the timpani, we may lose the ability to hear our own instrument.
I think that’s the only way you can ever be truly successful in this world. You have to acknowledge that it is from above. And you have to have the confidence that even if you lose it all, things will be okay. You have to be willing to fail, and all the while work your tail off to succeed.
By admitting they have no contingency plan to assist the millions that may lose subsidies, the administration confirms how the misguided law is unworkable for the American people. I’m committed to working with my Republican colleagues on how Congress can respond to help those hurt by Obamacare’s broken promises.
Xavier: They, whoever they are, shouldn’t have control over our lives. I’m not about to lose you. I’ve been through that before, and I’ll do whatever it takes to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
If we fail in this country, it is because we are too timid. If we lose our way in America, it is because we are too complacent. We must become conscious to the real threats before us and act creatively, imaginatively, now. We can no longer look to leadership beyond ourselves.
Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.
As soon as you Botox your smile lines away, you lose part of your identity.
That’s the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.
Leftists don’t leave it at winning at the ballot box. If they lose at the ballot box, they force themselves on the country or society elsewhere.
People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all.
We must not lose our trust in the power of truth. Everything is always changing in the world.
You win and lose as a team.
If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.
People don’t own teams to lose money. If you ask any owner whether they would rather make $20 million and come in last place or lose $20 million and win a World Series, there’s only one guy who honestly would take that championship: George Steinbrenner. Nobody else.
