Lose Quotes

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.

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.

If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again.

My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.