Losing Quotes - Page 15

• Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

  Walt Whitman

  Fall, Good Day, Battle

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 18

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• And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.

  Juan Williams

  Hurt, Keys, Upset

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• If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.

  Serena Williams

  Thinking, Motivated, Knows

  "Serena Williams pre-Wimbledon". The Wimbledon.com Interview, www.wimbledon.com. June 23, 2012.

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• Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.

  Venus Williams

  Loss, Games, Bigger

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• I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes.

  will.i.am

  Jobs, Home, Pay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

  Gary Zukav

  Loss, Affection, Strive

  "Looking Back on Valentine’s Day" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2012.

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• A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

  Germaine Greer

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

  Mae West

  Funny, Girl, Sexy

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West".

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• Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.

  Ken Kesey

  Running, Girlfriend, Hurt

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.128, Hamilton Books

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• The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul.

  Miranda July

  Jobs, Writing, Character

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• Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

  Mitch Albom

  Positive, Sacrifice, Sometimes

  "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". Book by Mitch Albom, 2003.

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• All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Winning, Games, Chess Game

  Ecke Bonk, Marcel Duchamp (1989). “Marcel Duchamp, the box in a valise: De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy : inventory of an edition”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering; the clocks stop and go and stop.

  Lorrie Moore

  Light, Blood, Water

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 18, 2010

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• Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.

  David Platt

  Christian, Powerful, Inspiration

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• I was losing sight of the wolf ahead of me; the one inside me seemed closer all of a sudden.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sight

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.134, Scholastic Inc.

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• Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Winning, Games

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• But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend the rest of my life. I will live it on my terms. And you... you can have all of me or nothing. I won't be an invalid any longer. Not even if it means losing you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mean, Choices, Certainty

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “Seduce Me at Sunrise”, p.290, Macmillan

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• Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reading, Past, Chloe

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• We'll tell our secrets to the dark"-Adam "Okay"-Mia "So let's hear another of your irrational fears"-Adam "I'm scared of losing you"-Mia "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen"-Adam "It still scares me"- Mia

  Gayle Forman

  Dark, Secret, Scare

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• But I know loving someone means losing a part of myself.

  Simone Elkeles

  Mean, Loving Someone, Knows

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love You, What Matters, Mind

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• When life backs you into a corner and offers you no escape, when your friends, your lover, and your family abandon you, when you're at the end of your rope, panicked, alone, and losing your mind, you know you'd give anything to make your problems go away. Then, desperate and eager, you will come to Unicorn Lane, seeking salvation in its magics and secrets. You'll do anything, pay any price. Unicorn Lane will take you in, shroud you in its power, fix your problems, and exact its price. And then you will learn what 'anything' really means.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mean, Giving, Magic

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.34, Penguin

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• I loved her for the way she embraced the unknown, how she opened herself up to every experience. When I was with her, she opened me up, too, stirred my passion and heightened my every sensation. Which was great, until she left me and all my heightened senses to deal with the heartache of losing her.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Passion, Heartache, Way

  Jonathan Tropper (2010). “Plan B: A Novel”, p.63, Macmillan

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• I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there

  Jodi Picoult

  Daughter, Children, Son

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something -- some new skeleton -- was emerging from beneath the softness of her accustomed self. With a deep, visceral ache, she wished her true form might prove to be a sleek and shining one, like a stiletto blade slicing free of an ungainly sheath. Like a bird of prey losing its hatchling fluff to hunt in cold, magnificent skies. That she might become something glittering, something startling, something dangerous.

  Laini Taylor

  Skeletons, Self, Sky

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.40, Scholastic Inc.

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