Losing Quotes - Page 22

All quitters are good losers.

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum

Always cut the cards...and smile when you lose.

America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.

All my life I've always been so blue, born to lose, and now I'm losing you.

There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.

I have tried to fight the love thing. It's a losing battle.

Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?

Don't all the girls get prettier at closing time?

Losing honour or losing everything, it is all the same thing in the realm of the good people.

You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.

Going to the theater, spending tons of money, people are losing money doing that. I'm really interested in my kinds of movies being seen as many people as possible on a TV.

I don't feel bad about losing.

With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.

When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning, or changes for the worse.

I didn't have a job. Employers were afraid of losing their reputations. I didn't have a reputation. I had zilch. So, I had the freedom, which unemployment gives you, and that was to behave as badly as I believed I should under the circumstances. And the circumstances were quite awful.

The attempt to minimize cost and maximize profits often interfered with our true mission in Iraq. We should have been working to get jobs for Iraqis, but the contractors found it cheaper to import Nepalese and others. This increased resentment, contributed to unemployment, and to our losing the hearts and minds of the Iraqis.

I'm definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unfamiliar feeling. Meaning, if you don't have it anymore, you didn't have it to begin with.

Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit.

Trophies separate the winners from losers, and life is about winning and losing. Go into business and you see. You're competing every day.

Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.

Winners have to absorb losses.

I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.

If you lose yourself to rage in the complexity of battle, you are going to be lost.

The older I got, the more apparent it became that my mother was losing control over me. She fought back fiercely with black moods, silent treatments and martyrdom. And, of course, all she did was run my ass out of the house even quicker. The pressure was unbearable.