Loses Quotes

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?

Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.

The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.