Best 737 quotes in «losing quotes» category

The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.

The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.

The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money.

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

The disciples were not losing time when they sat beside their Master, and held quiet converse with Him under the olives of Bethany or by the shores of Galilee. Those were their school-hours; those were their feeding times.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.

The gallery closed its doors in 1971. I could no longer psychologically handle the needs of 12 artists. I cared about all of them, and what was happening with their careers. I'm just not a person who can do that indefinitely. And tax-wise I was concerned because they gallery wasn't making money; it was losing money.

The greatest cause of human financial struggle is the fear of losing money.

The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

The hoarders, who are anxiously worried about losing something, are, psychologically speaking, the poor impoverished people, regardless of how much they have. Whoever is capable of giving of themselves is rich.

The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief.

The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

The losing side is full of suspicion.

The merit of the cross does not consist in its heaviness, but in the manner in which we carry it. I would even say that it is sometimes more virtuous to carry a cross of straw than a heavy cross because we have to be more attentive for fear of losing it.

The Marine Corps went from 15,000, which its strength was when I was Commandant, to approximately 400,000 when I retired, and more than that afterward, without losing its individual characteristics. It was the same Marine Corps. It was not different in any respect.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.

The more active I am, the better I feel and the longer I can stay onstage without losing my breath.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.

The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.

The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.

The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

The real problem is not increasing your energy. The problem is losing it. If you stop the loss and you simply meditate, you will have more than enough energy. You will learn to live strategically.

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

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

There comes a time when you're losing a fight that it just doesn't make sense to keep on fighting. It's not that you're being a quitter, it's just that you've got the sense to know when enough is enough.

There are times a women's just got to fight even if she knows it's a losing battle

There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.

There is a certain drop of a type of kundalini when you have sex.

There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.

There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.

There’s a benefit to losing, you get to learn from your mistakes.

There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.

There's an awful lot of work being done that no one ever sees, or that is only seen in the gallery world. I feel that the public are losing touch with the great stuff that's being done in photography.

There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.

There's existential fears I have - losing passion and creativity and just kind of floating through life. When I feel a little lost - pulled away by the noise of what you're supposed to be doing and what your social following is - I go back to the things that inspire me.

There's nothing like losing yourself in someone else's troubles to make you forget your own.

There's only winning and losing, and in our society, as in all societies, there's the person that's doing the winning, or there's the person that's facilitating the winning.

There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons.

There's nothing special about losing your virginity over a toilet.

There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.

There's such a fine line between defeat and losing.

The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.

The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.