Lose Quotes

It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.' No one notices me now.

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

I have tons of sunglasses. My husband won't let me buy another pair because I lose them all the time.

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

I have nothing to lose and think that it's a positive thing that I am young and playing on a good level.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.

You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

I look at a streak as I don't lose - literally.

Another way to lose control is to ignore something when you should address it.

I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word.

The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.

I'm on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it's all up in the medulla oblongata. I've got a lot up there. I've got a lot of knowledge... in this medulla oblongata.

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.