Losing Quotes - page 39

Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be. (V. S. Pritchett)
It looks as if there is a physical as well as a moral break in the orders I send out. I have plenty of interesting thoughts but keep losing them like the post cards I have written, or like my cap. View quote
E. M. Forster
My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.' View quote
Bruce Dickinson
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election. View quote
Barbara Bush
The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better. View quote
Ted Turner
The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician. View quote
Morris Udall
Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation. View quote
Daniel Levitin
I was suddenly carried away by rage to the point of losing all control over my frenzy. "Ah!" I cried, "since you will not do justice on yourself, die then, at once!" View quote
Paul Bourget
We are wont to condemn self-love but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves. View quote
Paul Valéry
I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch. View quote
Queen Rania of Jordan
Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better. (Kate Winslet)
Slowly losing friends is a part of growing up. View quote
Tom Hardy
The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it. View quote
Kris Kristofferson
No one can describe the disappointment, I had after losing to Lenda Murray in 2003 Ms Olympia when I clearly know and others knew I beat her by a land slide... Ok Lenda has great delts maybe the best in the business... A wonderful shape to her physique nice round bellies to her muscles "BUT" let the story be told she didn't have all the HARMONY the lines not to mention the definition I display that year.. View quote
Iris Kyle
A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. View quote
George Borrow
Let us transfix this momentary eternity which encloses everything, past and future, but without losing in the immobility of language any of its gigantic erotic whirling. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game. View quote
Steve Carell
You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is. View quote
Garth Brooks
It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things - whether health or a car or an old sense of self - has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers. View quote
Lance Armstrong
Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing. View quote
Lance Armstrong
In an interview two days ago, Watts said, Here's the problem with Washington: "If you are explaining, you are losing." (Lawrence Lessig)
Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he leaned in to kiss her, she gave herself over to him. While he held her close, she ran her hands over his shoulders and back, feeling the strength in his arms. She knew he'd wanted more in their relationship than she'd been willing to offer, but here and now, she suddenly knew she had no other choice. There was only this moment, and it was theirs. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson