To Lose It Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I just don't want to have more people to lose. It sounds mental, but I'd rather be alone than be devastated when things don't work out and he leaves. Or something horrible happens and I lose him entirely.

H.M. Ward

#3. You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#4. There's no downside to traveling the world and making money. I'm doing something I love. A lot of people have sucky jobs, but I have a good one, and I'm not trying to lose it any time soon.

Danny Brown

#5. When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#6. When I was a model, I started with an opinion, but was encouraged to lose it. It began as play-acting, but then I lost sight of myself a bit: so when I did the audition for 'Popworld' and they asked my opinion, I felt like crying with happiness.

Alexa Chung

#7. I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube.'
And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me.
He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it.

Markus Zusak

#8. It was too much happiness. Happiness puts you at too much risk - what if you were to lose it? Too much happiness is a paradox. It's a tragedy, even: getting something you've always wanted but being unable to keep it.

Jowita Bydlowska

#9. It isn't about how much physical weight you think you need to lose, it's about the mental weight that blocks you from loving yourself

Susan Hyatt

#10. Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you.

Sean Covey

#11. If you pull some lame-ass 'I'm your father' bullshit, right now, I'm going to lose it.

Martin Leicht

#12. At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I wanted to do this so badly. Then when I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it.

Ben Schwartz

#13. Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.

Seth Godin

#14. If you don't love, then nobody gets hurt. It's easy to leave. It's easy to lose. It's easy to let go.

Amy Harmon

#15. Back when I was modeling, the first time I went to Italy, I was having cappuccinos every day, and I gained 15 pounds. And I felt gorgeous! I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, 'Oh, I look like a woman.' And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, 'cause I loved it.

Christina Hendricks

#16. 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.

Jay-Z

#17. Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.

Javier Marias

#18. life is delicate, its fragile, it's a precious thing. you never know when you're going to lose it. Live life when you can because you never know which second will be your last.

Patricia Vanasse

#19. This is my philosophy on all life, not just when it comes to love. All the best things are terrifying, but that's why they're the best things. Nothing worth having comes easy. You have to be afraid to want it, afraid to lose it, afraid to try. If you feel that, then you know you're on to a winner.

Thomas S. Monson

#20. Do I look like a Jonas Brother? Then why is everyone waiting for me to lose it?

Lisi Harrison

#21. We did nothing to earn our adoption into God's family, and we can do nothing to lose it either.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#22. There will be losing years; but if the art of making money is not to lose it, then there should not be substantial losses.

Peter Cundill

#23. I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life.

Shannon Hale

#24. Building trust takes long- years, sometimes decades. It takes a second, a word, or a misstep to lose it. Regaining trust takes even longer.

Assegid Habtewold

#25. Escape from Freedom attempts to show, modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine, well fed, and well clothed, yet not a free man but an automaton.

Erich Fromm

#26. If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever.

Cindy Sheehan

#27. As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.

Max Hastings

#28. You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself.
'Not yet, not yet.

Holly Black

#29. If he thinks I'm going to sit around crying over him, he's got another thing coming. I can live without him, I can do without him just fine - but I don't like to lose. It's not like me. None of this is like me. I don't get rejected. I'm the one who walks away.

Paula Hawkins

#30. Well, I go wherever the ring takes me. Not because I'm a gold digger or anything; it's more of a Lord of the Rings thing. This ring gives me powers. Though I'm totally going to lose it when my hair falls out and I start calling it 'my precious.

Cindi Madsen

#31. The reality is: sometimes you lose. And you're never too good to lose. You're never too big to lose. You're never too smart to lose. It happens.

Beyonce Knowles

#32. The first rule in making money is not to lose it.

Steven J. Lee

#33. It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us.

Ariel Sharon

#34. The best way to win a game is not to lose it.

Erk Russell

#35. DURING THE FIRST PART of your life, you only become aware of happiness once you have lost it. Then an age comes, a second one, in which you already know, at the moment when you begin to experience true happiness, that you are, at the end of the day, going to lose it.

Michel Houellebecq

#36. I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.

Andrew Flintoff

#37. In Pennsylvania, 38 percent of Pennsylvania seniors chose to get their Medicare from a plan called Medicare Advantage. It's their choice. Forty-seven percent of them are going to lose it under 'Obamacare' according to Medicare by 2017.

Paul Ryan

#38. People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

John Mahoney

#39. The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

#40. in order to win a battle it might sometimes be necessary to lose it

Jose Saramago

#41. To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next.

D. A. Carson

#42. Life really is amazing, and when you're about to lose it, you finally notice that you never really took it in before. And you realize the sheer magnitude of what it involves, from your first kiss to your hundredth slice of pizza. I guess that's why those tears drifted down my cheeks.

Ryan C. Thomas

#43. I hope you still have it," she says. "Have what, babe?" "My heart. Because it's the only one I got and I don't want to lose it.

J.A. Huss

#44. Playboy: Why are you smiling? Thompson: Am I smiling? Yeah, I guess I am ... well, it's fun to lose it sometimes.

Alex Haley

#45. Nurse Angela, with her love of cats and orphans, once remarked of Homer Wells that the boy must adore the name she gave him because he fought so hard not to lose it.

John Irving

#46. You can't win if you aren't willing to lose it all.

J.J. McAvoy

#47. A moment, that's all it takes to live.
A hope, that's all it takes to believe.
A dream, that's all it takes to wish.
A blink, that's all it takes to lose it all.

Someone

#48. One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.

Sally Phillips

#49. If you say something over and over again, it begins to lose it's meaning ... Say anything enough times and it becomes gibberish.

Elizabeth Berg

#50. Before a fight I empty my mind. Every fighter is able to lose. It is not a big thing. You have to accept what comes and remain calm.

Lyoto Machida

#51. Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them.

Saadi

#52. To pursue happiness for its own sake is the surest way to lose it.

George Roche

#53. If life can remove someone you never wanted to lose, it can replace them with someone you never dreamed of wanting.

Char Sharp

#54. No, I like it ... a lot ... but that's a helluva tattoo for a virgin."
He popped the pen back in, freeing up his hand to move the mouse.
I smirked. "If I'm going to lose it, I want to be broken in right."
The pen fell from Trenton's mount to the floor.

Jamie McGuire

#55. Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

Barbara Tuchman

#56. When I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it. I still feel it.

Ben Schwartz

#57. And I really love how you love me. Completely. Irrevocably. Overwhelmingly. Selflessly. Unconditionally." He lifted his head, peering right down into me. His lips were just above mine. "Because I don't deserve it, but somehow, I got it, and I will never, ever do anything to lose it.

Tijan

#58. Now she had tasted love she felt that to lose it would mean that she would spend the rest of her life trying to capture just a tiny bit of what she had right here and now." p70

Claire Upton

#59. Never allow the cross to lose it's centrality to the ministry of your church. I believe we ought to connect ancient truth to contemporary questions, but the ultimate source of hope for every problem we face in our lives is the cross where Jesus died.

Brandon Cox

#60. Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

Elaine Dundy

#61. To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.

Alexander MacLaren

#62. I had success. I had a number one record. I had a number one album. I have to make this kind of record again or else I'm going to lose it all. That's how you end up making the same song over and over.

Jay-Z

#63. I've learned to be more reserved, watch what I'm saying; I got in a little bit of trouble. People tell me 'Never lose that, never lose that,' but then I get in trouble so I have to lose it. I'm trying to keep a little bit; I'm never going to lose who I am, I just gotta tone it down a little bit.

Shia Labeouf

#64. When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

James Brown

#65. About experiencing with him what you always dreamed a relationship could be like, only to lose it forever, never being able to love anyone again.

Jacquelyn Wheeler

#66. Pain is suffering because we want to be free of it, and pleasure is suffering because we fear to lose it. Fools search for freedom, but there is no freedom. There is only the embrace.

Brian Staveley

#67. Don't think you can ... know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even if you can't control everything ... you can always control something. Your body - Use it ... Amuse it ... because one day ... you're going to lose it.

Jeff Hardy

#68. I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

Ted Cruz

#69. Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want.
No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to the dreamer that the world of his longing made real is no longer that world at all.

Cormac McCarthy

#70. If I'm going to lose it, I want to be broken in right." The pen fell from Trenton's mouth to the floor, and he bent down to pick it up. "Uh . . . any, uh . . . any special font?

Jamie McGuire

#71. WHEN YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT, YOU CAN AFFORD TO KEEP YOUR TEMPER; AND WHEN YOU ARE IN THE WRONG, YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE IT.

Chester Bowles

#72. He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it.
[He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]

George Herbert

#73. People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's always the most conventional things that contain the largest measure of madness.

Javier Marias

#74. I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it.

Carol Leifer

#75. Thank you for continuing this journey with me, Perky. There is no way I was ready to let you go. I don't know what this is, but it's the best thing I have in my life right now, and I don't want to lose it.

Penelope Ward

#76. The bottom-line message of history is that if you're doubling and tripling your money in record time, you're also more likely to lose it all.

Kurt Eichenwald

#77. Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it.

Confucius

#78. And so I rehabilitate myself - staying up late this Friday night in spite of vowing to go to bed early, because it is more important to capture moments like this, keen shifts in mood, sudden veering of direction - than to lose it in slumber.

Sylvia Plath

#79. I got plenty of grief for 'Blackwater,' because in the books, there's this huge chain across the harbor that features prominently in the battle. And we simply weren't able to do it with our budget and do it any justice, so we had to lose it.

Neil Marshall

#80. We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And I kind of miss it. I miss culture and civilization.

Yoko Ono

#81. not to lose it. My thoughts rake at my heart, pricking tears that begin to puddle in my eyes.

E.K. Blair

#82. Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it.

Frederick Buechner

#83. Remember this always: to have something, sometimes you must be willing to lose it. Love must live free, jel'enedra. Love must ever live free.

Mercedes Lackey

#84. The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

William James

#85. I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.

Willa Gibbs

#86. Moms, even good ones, sometimes lose it a little so as not to lose it all.

Susan Squire

#87. It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.

Jack Nicklaus

#88. But all life is a symphony of successive losses. You lose your youth, your parents, your loves, your friends, your comforts, your health, and finally your life. To deny loss is to lose it all anyway and to lose, in addition, your self-possession and your peace of mind

Isaac Asimov

#89. Will someone please tell me why you all call me 'Sparky'?" she burst out in frustration. "And if I get stabbed one more time tonight I'm going to lose it!" she added, rounding on Jason, who was sneaking up behind her holding a stapler.

Josephine Angelini

#90. But you can't find love if you're not willing to lose it. You can't find happiness if you're not willing to risk being sad. And you can't find the love of your life without risking breaking your heart.

Kunal Nayyar

#91. The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.

James Bovard

#92. Some who are fortunate enough to have communities still do fight to keep them, but they have seldom prevailed. While people possess a community, they usually understand that they can't afford to lose it; but after it is lost, gradually even the memory of what was lost is lost.

Jane Jacobs

#93. If you can steal from your competition, then they deserve to lose it. If someone steals from you, then shame on you ... you deserve it. Same goes for employees too.

Don Farrell

#94. Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.

Gene Robinson

#95. I know what it's like to lose it.

Jim Butcher

#96. I have 40 pounds to lose. It is not the fault of the fast food people, and anyone who's trying to sue the fast food places needs a therapist, not an attorney.

Richard Simmons

#97. She should have known never to love anything so much she couldn't bear to lose it. That was life's lesson.

Michael Sledge

#98. If it hadn't been for Prosper, he might never have learned how to love at all. Because the ability to become attached to people was something that you had to exercise at an early age, if you didn't want to lose it altogether.

Catherine Jinks

#99. My father, my mother, and then my father was always on top of me - 'Keep your nose clean. Do you love what you're doing?' 'Yes.' 'Then be aware, or you're going to lose it.'

Paul Anka

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

Gabrielle Zevin