Lose Quotes

I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the record even harder to break. The time trap had snapped shut.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.

The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

When I was younger I was fat. I was never conscious of it and was content with who I was because I was so loved. My mother never told me to lose weight and my father doted on me, but my agent told me. I tried, but I loved Indian food too much.

Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.

If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!

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 was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

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.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.

The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.