Losing Quotes - Page 11

Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.

While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary, become even faster.

I am learning how to be alone without being lonely; I am learning how to be lonely without losing my mind.

Life is about losing everything, gracefully.

All the world loves a good loser.

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

I certainly went into losing my virginity terrified. Going on stage, I could only have imagined the worst possible outcomes. And then it went fine.

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

Losers never know why they are losing. They will mention injuries, the officiating, the weather and bad breaks.

As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.

It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, - being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity."

It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

The Marine Corps went from 15,000, which its strength was when I was Commandant, to approximately 400,000 when I retired, and more than that afterward, without losing its individual characteristics. It was the same Marine Corps. It was not different in any respect.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.

Losers are those who are afraid of losing

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the work to such an extent that the work itself... felt as if a living organism was posited there on the canvas, on this surface... That's truly... the act of creation.

Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.

I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams.

No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living.

Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.

By showing that you don't have to lose yourself, maybe someone else will feel some sort of comfort.