Losing Quotes - Page 18

Losing is the great American sin.

Like driving along a bumpy road and losing control of the steering wheel, tossing you—just a tad—off the road. The wheels kick up some dirt, but you're able to pull it back. Yet no matter how hard you try to drive straight, something keeps jerking you to the side. You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too much—too tiring—and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

As things grew for me I felt like I was losing myself and wanted to stay true to myself as well. I didn't want to lose any connection I had with the audience. I felt small on a big stage and I felt like I was peaking generically to an audience.

The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money.

It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.

Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I'm losing money.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.

This extends to all things, but you only learn it by losing a few times.

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.

Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith and not so easy to practise it.

We're not losing the peace.

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

A good loser is all right, but it isn't so much fun to beat him.

You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

Don't lose yourself just because you found somebody.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.

I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.