Loses Quotes

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

But nothing is better than the market, where the customer and the business deal directly with each other, because if you rip people off, word gets out. That business eventually loses its customers, and the good ones that serve people well get the business. You get government in there, and it's just more money for the lawyers who write the bills.

Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.

It's the good loser who finally loses out.

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling.

We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

'Larry Crowne' is about as bummed out a human being as one can be when he loses his job. What he is able to enjoy is something that may not be available to everybody. But it's about the value of being willing to get and willing to give good advice.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.