What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
George Bernard Shaw
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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
General Douglas MacArthur
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.
Oscar Wilde
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde
Better lose the anchor than the whole ship.
Dutch Proverb
'I may lose land...but I never lose a minute.'
Napoleon Bonaparte
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
Mary Renault
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
Katharine Hepburn
I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.
Tommy Lasorda
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
When you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose; it's how drunk you get.
Matt Groening
Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
Michel de Montaigne
It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.
Hubert H. Humphrey
I'd rather lose a cause that will one day win than win a cause that will some day lose.
Woodrow Wilson
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
G. K. Chesterton
I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.
George F. Burns
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
Joe Paterno
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Harry S Truman
The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.
Margaret Cho
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
Charles Bukowski
You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.
Ho Chi Minh
It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.
George W. Bush
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
Antoine Rivarol
The human heart cannot love the whole world. And if you try to put the whole world into your heart, you will eventually lose touch with your own humanity.
Real Live Preacher
This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.
Hafiz Of Persia
He obviously has a great arm and foot, but he also is one of the best blockers on this team, and he does a great job on defense. If there were 11 Kyle Days on a team, you wouldn't lose.
Bill Baker
It goes to someone that has that disease where they lose all their hair. And it goes to people who have went through chemotherapy because wigs are very expensive.
Pam Finkelstein
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Henry David Thoreau
Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Henry David Thoreau
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem
It's always that hot. We were supposed to get air last year, but we'll lose our home-court advantage with that.
Tom Mcdonald
It's a great idea to copy those. Because in case you lose them, it's so much easier to get them replaced if you have a copy of them.
Nilou Motamed
The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am-it seems I change every day.
Leonardo Dicaprio
We're third in district. No matter if we win or lose (today), we'll still be third.
Della Rector
It can be a distraction. You tend to lose focus when you work because you're listening to that person.
Travis Price
I haven't played against them in a long time. If you lose you're going to have to hear from them.
Oliver Hoyte
Sometimes our girls tend to lose concentration, but they were able to stay focused for nine innings, which is a big deal. It was a tough game all nine innings.
Amber Starkey
It was the eye of the Tiger. She came to the sideline and said, 'I don't want to lose. Put it in my hands.' For a sophomore to say that, that's huge.
Steve Holloway
We've learned from our losses when we were down in the first quarter and at halftime, when we were down by four or five goals, that we can't lose our cool. We have to just come out and play hard.
Joe Walters
They have nothing to lose. It's scary to play a team that has nothing to lose.
Danny Irmen
I know how devastating it can be for people to lose those members of their family as well.
Catherine Crier
You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.
Jeanette Winterson
Those of us who watched him in the courtroom know that win or lose, he is one of the best trial lawyers in the country.
David Berg
In this case, the country has no choice but to make peace with the communities that share the tiger's home. If not, we will lose the war of conservation, tiger by tiger.
Sunita Narain
When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
James Brown
We want to keep a nice little friendly atmosphere about it. I don't think we want to lose that.
Rich Harvey
It's disappointing, but when you lose to a wrestler of Jordan's caliber, there's nothing to be ashamed of.
Mike Yancosky
We lost track of her a couple times. And she's too good of a shooter to lose track of.
Justin Schommer
It helps us being the underdog. We have nothing to lose. Nobody expects us to win except ourselves.
Daniel Ruffin
When those beverages are replacing better food choices, you lose out on total nutrition. What is it taking out of your diet that you should have?
Sharron Coplin
We have nothing to lose. We have to come out and play as hard as we can.
Scott Gillespie
There's only 12 teams still alive, and we're one of them. But now it's lose and you go home. We're in the same boat as everybody else.
Keith Newman
I think we're certainly losing a lot of that diversity. As the numbers diminish due to age and death, you lose the people with a lot of experience to do those kinds of things.
Albert Smith
You hate to lose but if you lose to quality it says something.
Paul Bacsardi
New Jersey has the most to lose of any state if this idea of selling off the Northeast Corridor were to happen.
Charles Walston
We were very anxious. We think it would be very foolish for the city to become involved with a team. It's a lose-lose proposition for the city.
Jim Mccormack
If you don't come to play (on Saturday), you are going to lose. You better come ready to play and ready to play four quarters.
Chris Mestl
They can lose in any sport but baseball. Then, he gets upset.
Preston Gomez
I am a little concerned about charging for the full-day. I'm concerned that we might lose some students, and parents might lose interest in the program.
Beth Olmstead
Same dances in the same old shoesYou get too careful with the steps you chooseYou don't care about winningBut You don't want to lose.
The Eagles
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
Billie Holiday
It's like great to be at this game, and to get that experience, but you work so hard, it's hard to lose it.
Jackie Lenz
I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
Kate Seredy
For sure it was my biggest win. When you're down you have nothing to lose, so you just have no nerves.
Anna Tatishvili
Anytime you lose a tree, it's almost like you're losing a family member in your yard.
Jerry Peterson
The AIDS epidemic is one of the greatest challenges to our society today. It is a fight that we cannot afford to lose.
Anthony S. Fauci
The state will not lose anything if a good price for the stake is offered.
Leonid Reiman
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Booth Tarkington
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
Aaron Hill
It is not about us asking for a raise. It is about whether [some controllers] would lose out on cost of living increases if they continued to work, compared with retiring.
Pat Mccormick
When this trial does happen, what we're going to have to go through ... . Time helps things, but you're never going to have complete closure when you lose a child.
Karen Overacker
We've learned how to lose, sometimes gracefully, so we've got to learn how to start winning again.
Paul Sturrock
Everybody that's crabbed ... has got a story to tell about a hold-your-breath situation. It's not uncommon to lose boats. Fortunately it's a little bit more uncommon to lose lives.
Nick Furman
I can't stand to lose and that's about it.
Steven Baker
In a close game, you're going to have to win or lose at the line. We got it done enough.
Lance Watson
Some people, if you go with the setbacks, could lose 30 to 40 percent of their property.
Tom Oliver
It's Marty's to lose and she has to stumble two or three times to lose.
John Davies
We're going to have to go out there and earn it, though. We had a lot of guys coming back this year. It doesn't matter how few guys you lose, the chemistry always changes. Talent only gets you so far. Chemistry ... has to come with it.
Chris Petersen
As we age, not only do we lose fat in our faces but our bones actually change in contour, often making us look older than we feel.
David Kahn
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
Imelda Marcos
I was the lucky one. I didn't lose everything I had.
Gail Pomerleau
You know, you lose you're out. So it's time to no matter what, no excuses, to put the ball in the hole. I kind of got that mentality and if I was open, I was going to put it in.
Heather Ezell
I told them if they didn't give up that we would win. They (teammates) were looking at me. I missed some shots, but they were counting on me. I couldn't let us lose.
Griffin Miller
I know that I will work hard and I will give it my all. I just hope to be a part of a good team. We will win some and of course we will lose some, but I hope we will have the dedication and drive.
Andee Whitaker
We can't let them shoot the threes on us like last time. But these kids don't want to lose anymore, and they want to go farther. We'll see what happens.
Clair Costello
We don't want to lose the outdoor title by a point again.
Deb Vercauteren
(Bush) said we won't stop until victory, but what does victory look like and how many sons and daughters are going to have to die and lose limbs?
Burt Cohen
It's frustrating to lose like that. The defense wasn't there at all tonight.
Chris Kaman
He also has very good stroke mechanics, and much like Molly doesn't like to lose. They have it in their heart.
Dave Wharton
I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.
Richard Powers
It's disappointing to lose and to lose on that note. But we've had a phenomenal season.
Megan Moody
I still have confidence in this team but they have to have confidence in themselves. Everybody has to deal with adversity. In this league, anybody can lose a couple of games in a row. We just have to not panic and keep battling.
Jeff Guiot
Bumping is really demoralizing for our teachers. If we lose all this ... student achievement will go down.
Candace Millington
You don't go into business to lose money.
Donna Allen
It was a good game. It was sad that one team had to lose, but I am happy it wasn't us.
Obie Galindo
It's a great stadium, great crowd, ... That's what Auburn football is about. But it's unacceptable to lose at home and that's what we did. It can't happen anymore.
David Gibbs
There was a lot of activity with our pump crew dealing with stations that were without power. We lose some of the high-tech capability when the power goes out.
Dennis Cocking
I had some kids who were under 6-foot that were easily dunking, and it was pretty embarrassing for him because he couldn't dunk. I told him to lose some weight and it would help him. Now he can dunk pretty easily.
Thomas Boykin
That probably wasn't something that I should have done, but being the competitor that I am, you know, I hate second place and I hate to lose.
Scottie Reynolds
A loss is a loss, every time you turn around in this business it seems you lose a little freedom. But it's not the end of world.
Giuseppi Pennisi
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
One's tragic, but when you lose four at one time, that's really, really hard.
Terry Snyder
Lose a few of these, or let them become obsolete, and you're wasting significant dollars.
John Walko
You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
Dale Earnhardt
You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
Kareem Abdul jabbar
Sometimes, it could have been a better shot. Maybe I did lose a little confidence in my shot.
Jermareo Davidson
We knew that we weren't invincible anymore and that we could lose. We just got hungrier and it showed in the games. We aren't ready to go home yet.
Tristan Thompson
For the next three games there's no fear of a letdown. It's all about what we do. If we go out and we play good, we win. And if we don't play good, we lose. We're not going to let that happen.
Donte Whitner
That's always the worst thing — to lose one.
David Blackwell
If I have to pitch out of the 'pen, I'll pitch out of the 'pen. The way I'm pitching right now, if it comes down to a coin flip, I'm going to lose.
Bronson Arroyo
We want to try this to see if we can make a difference. We just don't want to lose (the students).
Chuck Hatfield
There've been numerous complaints about those windows. It's so tragic that the baby had to lose his life. It's horrible. I hope something is done so this never happens again.
Susan Rouse
You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.
Lou Gerstner
I don't like to watch my team lose. I feel a little pressure. It's not going to help my team sitting the way I have.
Carlos Guillen
Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.
Phyllis George
If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
Bernard Law Montgomery
He played better the entire game, but it's not bad to lose because you learn a lot.
Andres Martinez
You lose a lot of time, hating people.
Marian Anderson
It's not just for tonight. It's good all weekend -- win or lose.
Jeff Pollard
It's an awful long way to travel to play and will seem an even longer one going home if we lose, so we are going there to win.
Tony Boyle
It sounded great! People could eat all the forbidden foods and lose weight.
Alice Lichtenstein
Back then, I wasn't much afraid of anything. We kept doing what we were doing, especially my husband. He didn't have to worry so much because he didn't have a job to lose.
Clara Brooks
We have a lot of games left. We could lose all 16 in the Big 12, but we don't plan to do that.
Crystal Kemp
We not only lose children. We lose adults, too. We get some frantic people. If anybody loses a child, that's where they would want to report to.
Jennifer Taylor
I thought it was cool how we were down by 15 at the half and came back to lose by four. We haven't even played as a team, really. I thought we did well.
Kristen Campos
I was afraid I was going to lose my dribble. But I kept it together and I put it down. Right now, I can't believe it. This is so big for us and big for the whole school.
Jeremy Maclin
We got swept. ... We are angry, disappointed, displeased. All those things. That's how it is when you lose.
Adrian Casanova
The best way to get someone to lose weight is to get them feeling OK about being fat.
Judy Rebick
It's a great example of how you can lose it all for everyone if you set out to gain an extra cent for yourself.
Larry Kenswil
The winner ain't the one with the fastest car its the one who refuses to lose.
Dale Earnhardt
It was disappointing to lose your skipper at that point in time. He felt like it could have been his day to get some runs but that's cricket - sometimes you get the hard knocks.
Runako Morton
Sometimes it just takes one to win or lose the game.
Natalie Feller
Born to lose, live to win.
Lemmy Kilmister
It's a 'use it or lose it' year for cash. Companies are saying, 'listen, we've got to do something. We've got to buy something or invest it.
Jason Trennert
For a few pennies that we lose, let's keep management of the state parks for the future and everything else.
Ray Martin
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Madeleine L'Engle
The hour of sleep you lose is bad ... but I love the daytime in the evening.
Susan Morgan
They lose their homes. They lose their business. They lose their families, their marriages.
Becky Lindemann
Right now, I'm kind of tired. I don't really know what to think. I'm supposed to be happy, but I can't be completely happy about it. That's just what happens. You never know when you're going to lose somebody. I didn't even get to say goodbye to her.
Cathy Manzano
I have a very strong opinion that brands get in trouble when they lose focus of who they are. And we're not going to let that happen.
Jill Lajdziak
People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.
John Sculley
I thought we played well on both sides of the ball although we did lose some intensity in the second half.
Vic Dalrymple
The only time we lose is when we go to tournaments or to out-of-town teams.
Derrick Estelle
We win...yet we lose, because we don't have him back.
James Byrd
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best thing.
William Makepeace Thackeray
You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.
Anthony Minghella
You'd think he was the first person to ever lose a tooth!
Judy Blume
Higher fences and more security guards aren't going to be enough to stop a deliberate or accidental release of dangerous chemicals. Texas has the most to gain and the most to lose.
Luke Metzger
Abe is the least likely to be a pragmatist. But the costs are too high not to be pragmatic. They lose leadership in the region. They lose legitimacy.
Richard Samuels
You just can't have anyone as the candidate. And when you have just anyone, you lose.
Joel Miller
The woman involved in this crash was obviously very distressed to lose the dogs.
Jane Allen
Nobody wants to lose their seat up here.
Nate Albert
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Thomas Browne, Sr.
If we're going to lose players like that, this is the year recruiting-wise when we should be covered.
Paul Tinnion
A lot of condolences. They thought it was a great thing. They thought it was sad for Rochester to lose a world class operation like this.
Kurt Ritchie
Momentum investing is a very fast way to lose money in a bear market.
Richard Dickson
You never try to lose focus. You know they are going to come back strong, too. You just have to fight it, and I think we did a good job. They just made a few plays.
Dane Krogstad
It's unfortunate to lose the ship. But if that's the cost of having nobody really hurt or killed, then fine, I think we'll live with that.
David Hahn
I'm very glad to see it close. We've been cautioning investors not to expect as much from it because its asset base has significantly limited its flexibility. At a certain level, it's going to lose its ability to distinguish itself from an index fund.
Sonya Morris
They played tough, and we played tough. One team had to win, and one team had to lose. That's tough on us, because we had a great season.
Pete Cinella
Iran needs to provide a political and business environment in which companies won't feel they're going to lose their shirt.
Bill Ramsay
Beware of mothers who have nothing left to lose.
Amy Goodman
That's one of the biggest employers in Middletown. We've lost a lot of industry in this area, and we can't afford to lose anymore.
Jim Limerick
No one will lose employment if they decide to stay with us or the System.
Cindy Schamp
We understand what it means to lose your generators. Everything went under for us in '77.
Cheryl Hickman
Flowery Branch played hard. But we can't lose our grip like that on the game.
Rick Howard
I'm worried, if they don't go full steam ahead, everybody's going to lose interest and nobody's going to want to do anything.
Patricia Adams
The outcome may not have been the best, but our girls tend to think it's better to lose by 30, rather than to lose by one.
Bruce Marthaller
Adam has thrown three great games in a row and certainly didn't deserve to lose this one. They way he battled out of jams early on and kept us in the game is a tribute to the type of competitor he is.
Andy Zavorek
When you're marching, people see how many are there. And those who may not have joined in lose their fear and the march grows as it goes.
Jacquelyn Heard
Anytime you lose anything it's bad because, right now, you don't know how much. We feel like we'll have plenty of peaches, but we will just cut back on some of the wholesale.
Aaron Edwards
It's always disappointing when you lose the first game. I was more satisfied that we were able to regroup and come together for the last two games.
Steve Salwei
We found that customer relationships are too valuable. ... If we outsource that, we lose that feedback.
Aurelian Lis
That's an interesting dynamic. You can grow revenue and lose share, but still feel pretty good about your business.
Stan Hubbard
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