Top 100 You Lose Sayings
#1. Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me ... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.
Werner Herzog
#2. It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.
Sarah Dessen
#3. Believe me, you lose more than a gallon of fluids during a race. You could lose between six and 10 pounds during a race, depending on hot it is.
Michael Andretti
#4. Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out ...
David Bowie
#5. When I stopped drinking ... there were so many things I had to face that I didn't even realize were part of my makeup before. When you do that and have any changes that severe, you lose a lot of things, both good and bad.
Jason Isbell
#6. I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people.
Marian Anderson
#7. Still, happiness will depend on conditions favoring it. Lose those conditions and you lose your happiness. So, if your ability to affect happiness is so limited, the question becomes this - is happiness, then, really worthy of being the ultimate goal of life?" I'd
Bikram Dhillon
#8. You cannot be an egomaniac on the horse. If you lose your temper and start beating him, either you will destroy him, or he will destroy you. As soon as you start riding horses seriously, you're being disciplined on a daily basis about how ignorant you are and what there is left for you to learn.
Jane Smiley
#9. You lose in the Finals, they're all disappointing. Doesn't matter if I'm playing in Miami, Cleveland or on Mars. You lose the Finals, it's disappointing.
LeBron James
#10. I'm at a strange place I suppose in my life. I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose-you drop into a different kind of serious.
Angelina Jolie
#11. When you lose someone, it stays with you. Always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt.
L.J.Smith
#12. There can be no separation in your organization. You win as a team, you lose as a team.
Mike Shanahan
#13. I think I'm probably a better sport. You tend to really just freak when you lose. You have a real hard time with it.
Woody Harrelson
#14. So how can you lose what you've never owned?
Lew Brown
#15. When it is all about winning, once you've done it, you lose interest; stay focus on helping/developing young people as your long-term goal.
Bradford Winters
#16. You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.
Billy Bob Thornton
#17. We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to feel they're just part of a big complex. I don't think you can create too well in a big plant. That's why I always tried to avoid bigness in the studio ...
Walt Disney
#18. One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean you live a utopian life free of politicians' influence. The destruction of the public domain is the clearest example, but it will only be the first.
Lawrence Lessig
#19. I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.
Cherie Lunghi
#20. Success isn't determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.
Pele
#21. I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.
Etgar Keret
#23. Haha, you lose! I got your delicious Subway sandwich Jerry 'stupid' Lawler!
Santino Marella
#24. I think the only thing that matters is you win as a team and you lose as a team. And so the team needs to understand that no one player is bigger than any other player. Everybody has a role. Every single role is important.
Bill O'Brien
#25. You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult place and tragic place, so it's more and more difficult for me to find the bright lights.
Michael Morpurgo
#26. Vampires actually slurp rather than suck," I said, correcting a long-held misconception. "The heart does most of the pumping, so you really just open your mouth and let it go into your throat. The trick is to swallow it in gulps or you lose all the flavor." Melissa
C.T. Phipps
#27. If you work all the time, you lose the intermittence of reflection and thought at every stage. Take breaks - for you and your work.
Peter Megargee Brown
#28. Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
Audrey Niffenegger
#29. Reminding her that just because you lose a few battles doesn't mean you'll lose the whole war.
J.M. Darhower
#30. You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#31. Begin your writing, fiction or article, where the action begins. This action can be internal (e.g., an important insight or personal decision) or external (e.g., a murder or calamity). Begin too early, you lose your reader. Begin too late, you lose your story.
Walt Shiel
#32. Names come and go. They get attached to you, and then you lose them, and they get attached to someone else.
Orson Scott Card
#34. Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel.
This is how you lose her.
Junot Diaz
#35. You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without; like it or not, she must face her losses and her helplessness to undo them.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#36. Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do that's got some dignity to it! Risk your souls! Risk them in good causes; then if you lose them, why should you care? Reform!
Mark Twain
#37. Because if you are fragmented and uncertain it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt. Survival in a desert, then, requires that you lose this fragmentation, and fast. It is not a mystical experience, or rather, it is dangerous to attach these sorts of words to it.
Robyn Davidson
#38. I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.
James Belushi
#39. Be indifferent if you lose your short term clients, remember they are your own worst enemy
Seth Klarman
#41. You think you're grown in college but you're not, because everything is kind of controlled. You lose the camaraderie and suddenly find yourself alone in an apartment just feeling lost.
Chris Bosh
#42. What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round,
George V. Higgins
#43. If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
Woodrow Wilson
#44. Always so very courteous. Lose courtesy, and you lose control; lose control and you lose yourself.
Claire North
#45. The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
Haile Gebrselassie
#46. To ensure that your work is also a play, I recommend that you develop a personal mission statement. This will help you find what it is to enjoy so much that you lose track of time when you're doing it.
Ken Blanchard
#47. If a thing be right, though you lose by it, it must be done; if it be wrong, though you would gain by it, you must scorn the sin for your Master's sake.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#48. Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far, did you lose yourself somewhere out there, did you get to be a star, and don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are?
John Rzeznik
#49. You are not going to be happy if you lose to a goal in the last minute. It is difficult to take and difficult to get out of your mind.
Alex Ferguson
#50. We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing - by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.
M.H. Abrams
#51. Under the Healthy Americans Act, you're in charge of your health care - not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can't find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you.
Ron Wyden
#52. Investing is a simple process of taking into account the present value and future value. The other major factor to understand here, is what you lose as a result of inaction. Consider what you can gain and what you can lose in your decision.
J.R. Rim
#53. Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of ... I lost it when my parents passed away.
Adam Beach
#54. You rob time, Fernando. How arrogant you are, taking an evening like this one as though it were some sour cherry, spitting half its flesh into the dirt. Every time you pitch yourself back into the past, you lose time. Have you so much of it to spare, my love?
Marlena De Blasi
#55. Love not only stings when you lose it, when it's ripped away from you. When it first bites, it can sting just as deeply.
Cat Porter
#56. In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.
Jack Nicholson
#57. We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.
Bode Miller
#58. When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.
Jerome Lawrence
#59. Sometimes what you lose in the time it takes to let an actor do something that you don't like as a director, you gain in not shutting them down creatively by telling them their idea sucks.
Seth Rogen
#60. I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there's always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently.
Tracy Spiridakos
#61. Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.
Gloria Steinem
#62. A family is created throughout the process, and it's always difficult when you lose someone.
Daniela Ruah
#63. When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you ... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.
Suze Orman
#64. If you lose a game, everyone asks why this player didn't play. If we win, nobody asks.
Jurgen Klopp
#65. Once you lose everything, what's the worst that's going to happen to you? You develop a self-assurance.
Roberto Goizueta
#66. It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.
C. JoyBell C.
#67. I always liked to be fairly simple because you could get more players ready to play quickly. If you lose players to free agency, injuries, etc., it is easier to get young players ready to play in a less complex system.
Tony Dungy
#68. Make a list of all the lovers you've ever had.
Warren Lasher
Ed "Rubberhead" Catapano
Charles Deats or Keats
Alfonse
Tuck it in your pocket. Leave it lying around, conspicuously. Somehow you lose it. Make "mislaid" jokes to yourself. Make another list.
Lorrie Moore
#69. It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.
Chuck Noll
#70. Defend what's left. You can have fifty men."
"Fifty! That's not enough ... "
"Forty," I snarled, "and if you lose the fort I'll cut your kidneys out and eat them."
We were at war.
Bernard Cornwell
#71. What do you do when you lose a loved one too quickly? When you have no time to prepare before, suddenly, that soul is gone?
Mitch Albom
#72. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
Ken Kesey
#73. It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
Thomas More
#74. Some of our kids are adopted and some kids are natural-born - I forget which ones are which. Family's just amazing. We think that of everything that we could do in the world ... if you don't take care of your family and raise your kids, you lose.
Kirk Cameron
#75. It's hard to remember this when you lose someone that you care for so much, but God is still God. He's holding Henry now, but he still holds us too. We're just on opposite ends of eternity and one day we'll all meet again.
Harper Whitmore
#76. You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some ... and then there's that little-known third category.
Al Gore
#77. You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.
John Dufresne
#78. I like to think of the senses as having a volume control in the brain. The volume turns up on all the other senses when you lose one.
David Mason
#79. It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#80. Hey, Hachi
People always say that you only discover how precious something is after you lose it
but I think, you only really recognize it ... when you see it a second time face to face.
-Nana Osaki
Ai Yazawa
#81. As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.
Shia Labeouf
#82. Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.
Laozi
#83. Comfort zones are deadly zones because you lose your true potential of what you can be, you start going with the status quo.
Greg Plitt
#84. Is it true that if you don't USE it you LOSE it?
Steve Carell
#85. We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
Robert McNamara
#86. Don't allow the demands of work load; make you lose touch with life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#87. You cannot approach people who think differently with reason and logic if they don't know what that means. First, you have to appeal to their values to start with. If you attack them, you lose them.
Jacque Fresco
#88. I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word.
Stephenie Meyer
#89. The more you lose, the more you don't win.
Alex McLeish
#92. Generosity makes us happiest. We'll be happier people when we share, not when we impose, but when we learn from one another. Because when I'm connected to everyone I disappear ... in being excellent you lose yourself. And when you're connected to everyone, that's the best thing that can happen.
Raj Patel
#93. Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader
Claude C. Hopkins
#94. The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win.
I. F. Stone
#96. You lose them the same way your lose a battalion; by errors of judgment, orders that are impossible to fulfill, and through impossible conditions.
Ernest Hemingway,
#97. Love and Friendship, when you have them or lose them they are much like the Greek story of Icarus...
You can make you feel like you're soaring above the clouds with happiness when you have them or feel like you are plummeting to the depths of hell with despair when you lose them.
Anonymous
#98. You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn
Alanis Morissette
#99. Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'
Jason Alexander
#100. Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.
Thomas A. Edison
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