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Losing Quotes - Page 19

I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.

Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.77, Macmillan

Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.

Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.342, Dell

Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

Dan Simmons (2011). “The Fall of Hyperion”, p.332, Spectra

I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there.

"Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character". American Masters Interview, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2008.

Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

Arthur Ashe (1995). “Arthur Ashe on Tennis: Strokes, Strategy, Traditions, Players, Psychology, and Wisdom”, Alfred A. Knopf

Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.239

Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.72, Sounds True