Losing Quotes - page 5

Don't let the sun go down on me. Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see. I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free. But losing everything is like the sun going down on me. (Elton John)
It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game. View quote
Garry Kasparov
People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else. View quote
Joss Whedon
His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect. View quote
Saki
If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done. View quote
Ihara Saikaku
Now if I seem to be afraid To live the life that I have made in song Well it's just that I've been losing so long. View quote
Jackson Browne
We can travel longer, night and day, without losing our spirits than almost any persons we ever met. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
I loved when Bush came out and said, 'We are losing the war against drugs.' You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it. View quote
Bill Hicks
Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. ... When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness. (Kenneth Clark)
All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order to say it, before I can end, of an imposed task, once known, long neglected, finally forgotten, to perform, before I can be done with speaking, done with listening, I invented it all, in the hope it would console me, help me to go on, allow me to think of myself as somewhere on a road, moving, between a beginning and an end, gaining ground, losing ground, getting lost, but somehow in the long run making headway. View quote
Samuel Beckett
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else. View quote
Mitch Albom
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. View quote
John Steinbeck
And she said 'Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you're blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow. View quote
Paul Simon
This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely. View quote
Malcolm X
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them. View quote
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
This I have seen in life-those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step; those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons. (Wentworth Miller)
I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility. View quote
Bill Maher
A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional. View quote
Stephen Leacock
Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away. View quote
Sarah Dessen
A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself for the group, for the good of the group - that's teamwork. View quote
John Wooden