The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.

The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.

I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we're losing rather than a celebration of what we have.

Don't be afraid. You are as alive as anything else is alive. Your right to be alive is as great as the right of anything else.

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.

I like to play Gandhi, but I've got tired of it, though not bored of it. I have to go through the physicality of losing weight.

There's no point looking good and losing. Winning is what it's all about, and you can't always look spectacular while doing it.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

The unemployment rate went down as I was governor of Massachusetts. We were losing jobs every month when I came into the state.

In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment.

People are branded as either 'fat' or 'skinny' from an early age. You sort of never shake it, even if you end up losing weight.

I have no ambition whatsoever. I don't know whether that's because I'm afraid of losing, or of failure - of not being the best.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair.

People are taught to fear god. They are taught to fear everything. It has become such a natural state that no one questions it.

I felt like I was literally losing myself as being the joyful, spiritual, passionate, exciting woman that I naturally had been.

When I was losing my hearing, we had to buy hearing aids and they were incredibly expensive. It was a huge financial situation.

Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.

I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.

For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.

I’m all mixed up inside. It’s like—I don’t know—like an ignition of some kind. one minute, I’m fine, and the next I’m losing it.

I've spent my life defending the Net, and I do feel that if we don't fight online crime, we are running a risk of losing it all.

After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

The difference of somebody of winning and losing, has nothing to do with their genetics, has nothing to do with their potential.

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

I'm always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money. Don't focus on making money, focus on protecting what you have

It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.

Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself.

Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself.

I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity.

It's hard to keep a positive attitude coming to work every day, feeling like you're getting better when the same result is losing.

Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.

With many comic strips, knowing when to quit isn't a problem: The syndicate editors simply cancel a feature that is losing papers.

But somehow I feel the world is taking me away from my original rock roots of inspiration. Rock and roll is losing its past glory.

I wouldn't accept losing as a team, wouldn't accept losing as my team. It's like a war every practice. I think it helped us a lot.

A lot of my songs are about loneliness and losing relationships. Even the ones that are happy, there's a lonely undertone to them.

Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel a little dead after losing him.

Anger is the ultimate troublemaker. I feel you can express a strong disapproval or dislike of an object without losing your temper.

When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

We did not do a good enough job of taking care of the people who were losing their careers and retraining them into the new economy.

There are dedicated actors and there are people now who only stay famous for putting on weight, losing it, then putting it on again.

No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

Look the, the American worker has been losing - for decades now. We've seen manufacturing in decline here in the industrial Midwest.

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