logo

Quotes About Lose

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.
~ Diana Ross
The life of a professional golfer is precarious at best. Win, and they carry you to the clubhouse on their shoulders. Lose, and you pay the caddies in the dark.
~ Gene Sarazen
Was i on five or six? "Peter! You made me lose my count again!" "I have that effect on women." I roll my eyyes at him and he grins back at me, but before he can say anything else, I yell," Kitty! Get down here!
~ Jenny Han
The ultimate value of our lives is decided not by how we win but by how we lose
~ Ernest Hemingway
If that ghost have money I tells him never to haunt you -- less'n he wants to lose it!
~ Eugene O'Neill
I'm not sure when exactly it started to become the fashion in Westminster to skim-read documents, only bother with bullet points or, worse, to take them entirely on trust - but that, perhaps, was when we began as a country to lose our way.
~ Gina Miller
A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him.
~ David Gallagher
I'm very lucky, as I've never ever felt any pressure from any producer to lose weight, whereas a lot of actresses have.
~ Holliday Grainger
I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.
~ John Candy
As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
~ Vincent Cassel
I used to just lose my temper and tell the audience to shut up.
~ Hope Sandoval
Religion, therefore - despite the correctness of its insistence that something needs to be done about our relationship with God - remains unqualified bad news: it traps us in a game we will always and everywhere lose.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
He wondered what you had to do to lose your driver's license in Italy.
~ Robert Hellenga
the mind truly is like any other muscle in your body. Use it or lose it.
~ Robin S. Sharma
The mind is like any other muscle in your body. Use it or lose it.
~ Robin Sharma
For now I know that whatever bent this world around us, whether it was God or whether it was blind Chance as blind as my father, Is perfectly good, we're given a dollar of life to gamble against a dollar's worth of desire And if we win we have both but losers lose nothing
~ Robinson Jeffers
Am I in love? -Yes, since I'm waiting. The other never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wail; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game: whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual. even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely: I am the one who waits.
~ Roland Barthes
I saw two rare beetles & seized one in each hand; then I saw a third & new kind, which I could not bear to lose, so I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
Even men who use fear as their weapon can themselves be threatened. We all have something we don't want to lose.
~ Lindsey Davis
Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.
~ Linus Torvalds
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
~ Alice Walker
We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.
~ Joe Paterno
The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.
~ Chris Evert
First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
~ Donald Rumsfeld