Loses Quotes

You never understand how dear your privacy is until you lose it.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

The more you think and talk, the more you lose the Way.

Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.

Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.

You lose everything you love in the order in which you love it.

The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

When I bet on horses, I never lose. Why? I bet on all the horses.

When you have everything, you have everything to lose.

To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.

You can't lose yourself.

The retail industry has its own headache: it loses $16 billion a year to customers who buy clothes, wear them with the tags tucked in, and return these secondhand clothes for a full refund.

[H]e who fears to lose will never win.

She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.

To remain static is to lose ground.

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore." And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.

one keeps one's friends better when one is alone. The corollary to this is that one loses one's friends, slowly, when one sees them too often or when they visit for too long a time.

It’s impossible for you to lose me…because you never had me.

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?

Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.

I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.

You'll lose it, if you talk about it

I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.

It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.

You never gain something but that you lose something.

Everybody hurts when you lose. But he takes it hard.

Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

As far as I can work out, no-one really loses out.

If we practice stepping into the unknown, moment by moment, hour by hour, millions of times, then death is just the next step into the unknown. It loses its terror.

In my teams, when we win, we all win, and when we lose, I lose.

Some things are sacred. Until you act like they're not. Then you lose them

You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.

Christianity loses its scriptural fidelity and internal power when it no longer affirms both sola fide and the necessity of obedience.

The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.

Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.

In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.

The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.

From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.

The soul that has no established aim loses itself

I've been drunk maybe five times in my life. I don't like to lose control very much.