Quotes of: Loses Keyword

Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance—nothing more," says the twentieth-century philosopher-essayist Walter Benjamin. “But to lose oneself in a city—as one loses oneself in a forest—that ...

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Dr. Webb says that losing a sibling is oftentimes much harder for a person than losing any other member of the family. "A sibling represents a person's past, present, and future," he says. "Spouses have each other, and even when one eventually dies, ...

Where Things Come Back

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

French

What you lose in the fire, you will find amongst the ashes.

French

Any man can lose his hat in a fairy wind.

Irish

Where you lose nothing, you always win something.

Spanish

It is better to make money in the straw market than to lose it in the money market.

Serbian

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.

Lara St. John

You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.

Relentless

Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.

My Losing Season: A Memoir

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

My Losing Season: A Memoir

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Oscar Wilde

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

Orrin Woodward

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.

Pete Rose

I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

Magnus Carlsen

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

Michel de Montaigne

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.

Simon Schama

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

John Podhoretz

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

Floyd Patterson

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

Benny Goodman

No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.

Dong Dong