I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
I'm not one of those actors who gets physically fit for a role and then loses it all again.
Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are 'holes' and 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow.
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.
For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something.
If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.
If you're on a bus and going down a snowy mountain like in Tahoe, and the bus loses its brakes, where do you want to be sitting? Immediately, you all think, 'In the back.' But in the front would be the correct answer. As a quarterback, you want to take control of it.
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.
Whether someone like Klitschko wins, loses, draws, or gets knocked out in five seconds, he is still a big name.
Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering.
As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.
Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.
I've learned that 'love' is used a lot in the States for everything: 'I love that burger,' 'I love my shoes,' 'I love a friend.' To me, if it's overused, it loses meaning.
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.
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.