Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.
Without being overtly political about it, if people with severe disabilities are calculated in societal terms purely as a monetised unit, in terms of how much they cost in terms of care, you lose an important sense of who they are and the effect they have.
One win, and you're on top of the world. Lose in the first round of the next tournament: you're back to reality.
At my heaviest, I was 5'8" and 175 pounds. I ate well, but in too large quantities, and I rarely made a concerted effort to burn off the extra calories. I'd beat myself up about being overweight, even though I had the tools to be in shape. Then I'd resort to an unhealthy diet to lose the weight that was making me self-conscious.
Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
When anything goes, it's women who lose.
If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.
The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.
I value my independence a lot, and the thought of having to lose that due to age or any other reason terrifies me.
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
Weak arms don't cause you to lose games. When you hit, be sure to get on base. Then no one will care about a weak arm.
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.
An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
You lose your manners when you are poor.
It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.
Acting is like a sporting match; a tennis game, but no one should win or lose. The game's the thing!
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.
The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
You talk through what exactly happened to Howard Dean on the campaign trail, what Bill Clinton must have lived through, what the daily grind of doing what these people have to do. And they can never lose their temper, they can never be tired, and they can never slip up, or it's on-camera, and it's everywhere - and it's over.
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.
Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.
The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.
I respect men and women who age and are proud and don't lose energy. I think fashion forgot those people.
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.
I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.
