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It's tough being a small player. You don't want to be known as a guy who goes into the corner and loses 50 percent of the battles.
We have always argued that attempts to isolate Belarus, like other countries, lead to a dead end. In this situation, everyone loses.
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?
When a country loses its identity, it no longer knows what it is or where it comes from and what its real worth is. So it dissolves.
What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him.
Yes, my love, who soever lives, loses, . . . but he also wins. [Ger., Ja, meine Liebe, wer lebt, verliebt . . . aber er gewinnt auch.]
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.
And verily for everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything to replace Him.
Defeats are always tough, whatever you have lost, and they affect me the same way they affect anyone who loses a match - no more or less.
No act loses us; no violence we're subjected to destroys us; no debasement chases out the divine, and no one can take the divine from us.
I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.
God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.
If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power.
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.
You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.
I've beaten a lot of great fighters, but people say the big ones, I've lost them all. I don't want to go down as a guy who loses his big fights.
I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.
A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.
How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?
Just as an athlete must exercise his body to be a winner, a leader must exercise his position of authority. If he doesn't, he loses that authority.
Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.
Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.
Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
I believe that some athletes have fear, but you have to work on that. Athletes can't have fear. Fear of what? Fear of losing? Everybody loses one day.
Someone else's paper is fascinating until you buy it yourself. Then it loses its appeal, and you have to pass it on to someone else to reinvigorate it.
Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents.
Don't lose your head over love. I learned a long time ago that those who love you do not understand you, and those who understand you, do not love you.
I Will Follow is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
Man's true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.
I think that Batman loses his efficacy and mythology if he's got too many people around him. That's what the Justice League is for, you know what I mean?
A white manager loses his job and gets another job, he loses his job, he gets another job. Very few black managers can lose their job and get another job.
When an actor doesn't face a conflict, he loses confidence in himself. I always want to have a struggle because I believe it will help me accomplish more.
I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.
Someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. That's also what happens in almost every movie - someone is going to win and someone is going to lose.
We've got to understand what wins and what loses for us. What's our formula? For us, it might not be flashy. It might be boring football, but it works for us.
When your father loses his job you're not sure what the future is going to be. I was conscious that people were interested in what was happening to my father.
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
Each and every year, the United States loses an estimated $100 billion a year in tax revenues due to offshore tax abuses by the wealthy and large corporations.
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
Every time Washington regulators pass down another heavy-handed rule or levy another hefty fine, Colorado loses potential jobs, revenue, and economic security.
Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement.
Every time someone buys a cat or a dog from a breeder or a pet shop, a cat on the streets or in an animal shelter loses his or her chance at finding a good home.