To Lose It Quotes

#1. He who has nothing - it has been said many times - has nothing to lose but his chains.

Pablo Neruda

#2. When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

John Scofield

#3. The reason God commands us to love Him with all our heart is not because He is an egomaniac! It is because He knows that anything we love more than Him will betray us. Eventually, we lose it by its death . . . or ours.

Matt Papa

#4. It was one thing to die. It was another to lose one's soul. To come to a complete end. To exist no longer.

Darynda Jones

#5. It's amazing what we lose in life by listening to fear, instead of listening to God.

Joyce Meyer

#6. In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.

Viswanathan Anand

#7. Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.

Richard Price

#8. Do not attempt to lose weight without training your muscles at the same time. Prepare, plan, and persist...and get it right the first time. This

Ellington Darden

#9. My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.

Morrissey

#10. Meager as it is. Nothing to lose as I have. Nothing is something somehow.

Peter Heller

#11. At the very moment when man is on the verge of realizing his hope, he begins to lose it.

Erich Fromm

#12. I am marrying the finest man I have ever known." "It will cost you dear," he warns. "It would be worse to lose him.

Philippa Gregory

#13. I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

Rafael Nadal

#14. When you lose your face ... , it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.

Amy Tan

#15. When you lose the title, that doesn't mean you lose the contract to what you had. Just like when you win the title, it doesn't mean you win brains, PhDs and MAs.

Don King

#16. The day you lose someone isn't the worst -at least you've got something to do- it's all the days they stay dead.

Steven Moffat

#17. When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

Graham Swift

#18. Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather to the turns of speech, the allegories, figures, metaphors, as you will, into which the source has deviated, in order to lose it or rediscover it - which always amounts to the same.

Jacques Derrida

#19. It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

John Ruskin

#20. To you, death does not simply end life. It steals away the sunsets you'll never see, the children you'll never hold, the wife you'll never love. It's frightening to almost lose your future, and it's heartbreaking to witness death snuff out other people's tomorrows.

Robert Liparulo

#21. If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started-and that takes something you can never get back: time.

Tony Robbins

#22. It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.

Shannon L. Alder

#23. Here's the dirty little secret: Fiat currency is designed to lose value. Its very purpose is to confiscate your wealth and transfer it to the government. Each time the government prints a new dollar and spends it, the government gets the full purchasing power of that dollar.

Michael Maloney

#24. I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

Margaret Cho

#25. It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us - to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.

Pam Brown

#26. IT FEELS AS though I'm splintering into a dozen directions at once - grief, then rage, then panic. The last thing I need right now is to lose it. Instead I force my mind to go to the place that always calms and centers me: painting.

Anonymous

#27. Time does not act on memory to soften the edges, blur the details; if anything, it sharpens them. Emotions may lose their acid outlines, but not places and people, not if you wish to retain them.

Susan Moody

#28. Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

Olympia Dukakis

#29. I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind. I think that's wonderful. To be able to lose it, in many ways, is just great fun to do.

Daniel Sharman

#30. Well, whatever one thinks of the Roman Church, it is a worthy and powerful foe. I could accept that sort of conversion with grace. But I shall be very disappointed indeed if we lose him to the Presbyterians.

Donna Tartt

#31. I tried to be the leader ... that was my aim. But it is important to know how to win and how to lose.

Vitali Klitschko

#32. In a world that is incredibly loud it is easy to lose yourself in the noise and forget who you truly are.

Bella Sparelli

#33. It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and of the House of Representatives and that we not lose seats but we gain seats for talented women and our country, but we're lacking behind.

Eleanor Smeal

#34. Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.

Frank Herbert

#35. As soon as he comes into view, I lose the war. The war I didn't even know I was fighting. It doesn't happen often, but when I do find a guy attractive, it's better when it happens with a person I want it to happen with

Colleen Hoover

#36. You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life.

George Foreman

#37. Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised before the fact. Allegiance must be earned so it will hold, win or lose.

Janet Morris

#38. I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that.

Hilary Swank

#39. Energy spent to worry is a total lose. It is a down payment you've made without any return".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#40. Our doubts are traitors and make us
lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. In other words, a
wish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make it
happen. You have to pick up a quill and write your own damn story. (Mimi Wallingford)

Suzanne Selfors

#41. It's hard to care about people when you're always afraid you might lose them. But I think not caring is worse.

Amber Argyle

#42. We cannot afford to lose another decade. If we lose another decade, it becomes extremely costly to achieve climate stabilization.

Ottmar Edenhofer

#43. It's no good to lose touch with people who mean a lot,

Robyn Carr

#44. It was more likely that they would lose consciousness from the gee forces first - a relatively painless way to go.

Neal Stephenson

#45. It will not surprise you to learn that it is not uncommon for jockeys who struggle with their weight to starve themselves and spend hours in the sauna to lose a few pounds to be able to make a big-race ride.

Tony McCoy

#46. It is only because you take your mind to be yourself, and make it dwell on what you are not, that you lose your sense of well-being.

Deepak Chopra

#47. Lose some valuable things in very different places and wait for a while! If they come back to you, it means that you are living in an honest society and in a very rare one too!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#48. Bit if you look too long at the small rights, Jake - the ones that lie close at hand - it's easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off. Things are out of joint - going wrong and getting worse. We see it all around us, but the answers are still ahead.

Stephen King

#49. It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.

Kit Bond

#50. All your stress, pain, suffering, misery is due to your attachment with it. If you don't attach with the things, that doesn't serve you, either in your internal or external life, slowly those things lose grip on you, and you release yourself from it forever.

Roshan Sharma

#51. A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

Arthur Golden

#52. It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.

Jodi Picoult

#53. It's not that I want to win, it's just that I don't want to lose.

Gackt

#54. Though time seems to expand or contract between idle and frantic moments, it passes the same in both: second by second. You can neither lose it or create it. Use it wisely.

Gavin Mills

#55. Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours, if you care enough about me to take it.

Willa Cather

#56. It's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle. p28

Donna Tartt

#57. It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

Gabrielle Zevin

#58. Life isn't about being perfect and sometimes life sure as hell isn't about having perfect timing. It just is. Either you embrace it or you lose your opportunity to what could be something amazing.

M. Clarke

#59. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.

Venus Williams

#60. I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?

Sherman Alexie

#61. It is difficult to wrap your mind around this intellectually and until you've had the experience, it can be difficult to understand. I tell people to give it a shot; you have nothing to lose.

Robert Moss

#62. Every incident chips away at your limit. Every time you choose to stay, it makes the next time that much harder to leave. Eventually, you lose sight of your limit altogether, because you start to think, 'I've lasted five years now. What's five more?

Colleen Hoover

#63. Sometimes a Pawn is enough to change the whole game and those who ignore the importance of it, are liable to lose their Queen.

Sandeep Sharma

#64. In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

Boris Pasternak

#65. I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack.

Simon R. Green

#66. To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.

Malcolm Forbes

#67. It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

Imelda Marcos

#68. To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.

Henry Rollins

#69. William Shakespeare put it this way, Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Earl Nightingale

#70. But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin
Cause the only way to find your life is to lay your own life down
And I believe it's an easy price for the life that we have found

Andrew Peterson

#71. I love you. I love you and it sucks because now I'm going to lose my job and all our kids are to have red hair and I want at least one of them to be blonde, but they'll probably all have red hair and you're keeping secrets from me and I love you.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#72. When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

Eric S. Raymond

#73. It had to be her heart, too, or I lose. Sex and feelings. Shame and regret. That was the game.

Lyla Payne

#74. I think the older you get the harder it is to [lose] probably. Your metabolism slows down, whatever, but I'm a pretty active person.

Viggo Mortensen

#75. When we kissed, that flame sparked between us, pushing away the darkness that threatened to swallow me. It was a feeling I wasn't ready to lose.

Trish Marie Dawson

#76. Whether you win a match or lose a match, in terms of your emotions, it's important to be pretty levelheaded.

Maria Sharapova

#77. It is better to lose and gain the love, than win and lose the love.

Debasish Mridha

#78. Sometimes it takes you to lose something you rely have to learn the good of what you really had.

Auliq Ice

#79. You must learn to take a step back and visualize the whole piece. If you focus only on the thread given to you, you lose sight of what it can become.

Colleen Houck

#80. Eating smart is all about having an awareness of your body. The most obvious way to do that is by seeing it. So when you're trying to lose weight, spend more time wearing less. I don't think I could eat a plate of nachos naked - could you?

Marisa Miller

#81. I did not do it for you, sire." Gawain was deadly serious now. "Death comes to us and all mortals. I shall still lose you one day. But Logres! The only perfection under heaven would fall if I could not save you.

Suzannah Rowntree

#82. And here is the sense of its existence: it is conscious of being superfluous. It dilutes, scatters itself, tries to lose itself on the brown wall, along the lamp post or down there in the evening mist. But it never forgets itself. That is its lot.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#83. I know some people that have gone through serious struggles. People that were close to me, and I've seen some terrible things about people who lose it. So I think that type of pain is something that's human and that, actually, can help us look at ourselves a little bit.

Darren Aronofsky

#84. You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.

Nils-Axel Morner

#85. I forced myself to open my eyes. I was a Puckett, damn it. And Pucketts didn't lose our nerve. We schemed, we interjected, we occasionally drank too much and told someone what we really thought of them at a Christmas party, but we never lost our nerve.

Molly Harper

#86. We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.

Michael K. Powell

#87. There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something.

Eugene H. Peterson

#88. It can be easy to buy into anything. I would lose focus if I went with that attitude of wanting to be famous.

Tristan MacManus

#89. Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.

Randeep Hooda

#90. I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#91. The risk for me has to do with the nudity aspects. I'm an American actress in mainstream movies, and I would like to always be able to do them. For some reason, nudity is perceived differently here than it is elsewhere, and I didn't want to lose any American audience that I was building.

Amanda Seyfried

#92. You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all ... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.

Luis Bunuel

#93. It's the only way I think I'm ever going to walk away from the game, is to go ahead and say I'm going to, and then I've got to. There's no turning back now - win, lose or draw.

Bobby Cox

#94. I have a harder time eating properly than I do exercising. It's easier for me to add an activity than to deny myself something. And when I do lose the weight, I don't like that it makes me feel good about myself. It's not who I am.

Carrie Fisher

#95. In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all ...

Robert De Niro

#96. Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#97. The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

Walter Lippmann

#98. Jim Rohrbach sticks to his rules. You can learn from him and win, or ignore him and lose. It's an easy choice. He gives trend following a good name!

Michael Covel

#99. You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.

Jon Crosby

#100. I'd fallen asleep thinking I was much too tired to go on working and if I went on working, I'd lose it. I'd get a better hold of it in the morning; feel stronger. But I looked and looked at it and it seemed to me there was nothing to do.

Milton Resnick