Lose Quotes

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people.

With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like 'OK, they can fly; now they can't fly.'

If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising.

In my last scene in 'Breaking Dawn,' Bella has just died and I run outside and crumple to the ground and just lose it. I'm bawling. That was my last scene of 'Twilight' ever and I definitely had some extra motivation.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.

Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that.

Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

The only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.

I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here.