Losing Quotes - page 7

The saddest part of a broken heart Isn't the ending so much as the start The tragedy starts from the very first spark Losing your mind for the sake of your heart. (Raymond E. Feist)
Some risks are worth taking, even if it means losing a life. View quote
Rick Riordan
If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers? View quote
Rick Riordan
Although there are times I'd give anything to have her back, I'm glad she went first. Losing her was like being cleft down the middle. It was the moment it all ended for me, and I wouldn't have wanted her to go through that. View quote
Sara Gruen
You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that. View quote
Steve Perry
You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved. View quote
Stewart O'Nan
In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square. View quote
Philip Yancey
I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others. View quote
Charlaine Harris
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. View quote
Eugene O'Neill
I treat winning and losing exactly the same. I see them both as necessary steps to get us where we are going. Big failures big lessons little failures little lessons. View quote
Bob Proctor
Democracy is to have different ideas, even extreme ones. In democracy there is space for all of them and bridges to connect them. In Turkey we are losing those bridges, and everyone is trying to destroy spaces for the opposite side. When we look at this, Istanbul is like different courtyards divided by big, thick walls. (Burhan Sonmez)
There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose. View quote
Garth Stein
Don't think of it as losing a boyfriend. Think of it as gaining a stalker." -Dan Cahill. View quote
Gordon Korman
I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay. View quote
Deb Caletti
When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me. View quote
David Walliams
Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul. View quote
James Hillman
The thing about education - and why I'm so passionate about the position and status of the university - is that it's supposed to teach citizens how to think better, how to think critically, how to tell truth from falsehood, how to make a judgment about when they're being lied to and duped and when they're not, how to evaluate scientific teaching. Losing that training of citizens is an extremely dangerous road to go down. View quote
Joan Wallach Scott
The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell. View quote
John Jakes
I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that. View quote
Amy Chua
Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything. View quote
Ali Smith
In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone. (Alice Hoffman)
Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else? View quote
Alice Hoffman
This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter. View quote
Alice Hoffman
Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve. View quote
Kij Johnson
I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that. View quote
Chris Brown