Loses Quotes - Page 13

• The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

  Jack London

  Life, Hurt, Games

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.292, Lulu.com

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• When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

  Fred Wilson

  Dad, Years, Parent

  "A Veterans Day Story" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Selfishness, Naked, World

  Jonathan Edwards (1874). “Christian Love: As Manifested in the Heart and Life”, p.266

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• Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It's just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse than that is if we live long enough, we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean people die and disappear, and we're left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them.

  Sam Harris

  Mean, Thinking, Knowing

  "Sam Harris On Death". Big Think, July 4, 2007.

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• Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.

  John Piper

  Doctrine, World, Process

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• A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

  Gene Fowler

  Money, Men, Dollars

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• I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.

  Abe Lemons

  Football, Years, Games

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• It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because you will waste time in terms of years.

  Joe Walsh

  Years, Perspective, Advice

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I've been playing the father of teenagers for years. People always thought that I was 40 when I was 26. Once you lose your hair, they're like "Oh! He's really old now."

  Stanley Tucci

  Teenager, Father, Hair

  Source: collider.com

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• With no gravitational force to work against, your body not only doesn't need the same amount of muscle and bone, it starts breaking them down. As on Earth, so in space: use it or lose it. And exercise may not solve the problem.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Exercise, Use It Or Lose It, Space

  "Can We Make It To Mars?". "NOVA scienceNOW" with Neil deGrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2011.

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• I love acting in the theater,but I'm fascinated with acting on film. If it's a film or a play or whatever, if the writing is good and you really feel passionate about it, you just can't lose. You'll grow from it. Whether it's a success or not is neither here nor there; you're going to grow as an artist from this experience.

  Jonathan Groff

  Writing, Artist, Play

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

  James Clavell

  Faces, Stranger, Should

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• But I really can't and I actually don't like switching off because I worry that I might lose my thread, or something. I fall asleep and I hope to God that I'm going to dream about it, because then I don't have to put it down.

  Kate Winslet

  Dream, Fall, Worry

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I left the studio at 5:30 in the morning. It's an incredible mind exercise. You have to, obviously, have stamina, but you really feel like you're kind of feeding your mind. It's a challenge of learning lines very fast and then you have to be lose enough to hopefully make good choices in a much shorter amount of time that it takes to film certain scenes.

  Glenn Close

  Morning, Exercise, Choices

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If people are not safe, they will not make themselves vulnerable. If they feel too comfortable, they can become complacent or lose their curiosity. They can become intellectually lazy about what matters most.

  Erica Brown

  What Matters, People, Lazy

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability really, to disappear and lose themself in a kind of mystical fashion. My appreciation and fascination with true acting is really all over the book, definitely.

  Rebecca Miller

  Fashion, Appreciation, Book

  "Author Rebecca Miller Talks Male Perspective, Piecing Together a Novel, and Fly Sex in Jacob's Folly". Interview with Kayla Tanenbaum, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2013.

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• My saying is; We win and lose together. I think that really does apply to both my fans, family and the team.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Team, Winning, Thinking

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• Even if you need, and want, a second opinion, it can be dangerous to have people telling you what they think you ought to add, or cut, before you've even finished telling your story. One loses heart; one loses energy and interest. Or at least I do.

  Donna Tartt

  Heart, Cutting, Thinking

  Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

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• Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing. It's the timing that's all-important.

  Donna Tartt

  Criticism, Important, Timing

  Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

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• It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Knees, Impossible

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• Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

  Winston Churchill

  Stories, England, Guides

  Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

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• Ageing footballers never lose their commitment; they just lose their pace

  Gary Lineker

  Commitment, Pace, Ageing

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• If you take the credit, you lose it. If you give away the credit, it comes back multiplied.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Giving, Credit, Ifs

  Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen (2005). “Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth”, Harmony

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• A crazy person doesn't really lose his mind. It just becomes something more entertaining.

  George Carlin

  Crazy, Mind, Entertaining

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Standing on "tip toe", one stands not firmly. Straining in stride, one cannot walk far. Flaunting of deeds, one is unfavorably noticed. Being self-righteous, one is not respected. Boasting of self, one's merit is unrecognized. Glorifying of self, one loses the opportunity for greatness. From the viewpoint of Tao These represent imperfect Te, Valued as are filth or disease.

  Laozi

  Opportunity, Greatness, Self

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