Lose Quotes - page 3

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. (Eugenio Montale)
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. View quote
Edmund Waller
We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be. View quote
Anthony Kennedy
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind. View quote
Mick Jagger
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. View quote
George Eliot
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. View quote
Shania Twain
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. (W. Somerset Maugham)
Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game. View quote
Gary Gygax
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sick-room. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. View quote
George F. Kennan
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. View quote
Edmund Burke
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. View quote
William Morris
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. View quote
Elie Wiesel
Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose? View quote
Eliza Dushku
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. View quote
Jim Elliot
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. View quote
Willa Cather
I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring. (Mitch Hedberg)
Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. View quote
Mary Renault
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. View quote
James Baldwin
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election. View quote
Imelda Marcos