Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Hamilton

The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.

When the Packers lose is when I do the most work around the house.

We want to avenge the loss. We're not used to losing - at this, at least.

Adam Braun

You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.

Abraham Pais

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.

Geno Auriemma

You love going to places you've never been. We're playing a team that doesn't lose at home.

You lose some production because of the long days, ... If you have a rainy day, you miss 20 percent of your work week.

You lose by 40 and walk away. You lose by one or two and everyone on the team agonizes over what they could have done.

Beth Brooke

As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.

Tim Finn

It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.

We were able to snatch her and without any loss of life.

Derek Roy

We don't like losing. It seems like when we lose we come back with a better effort. We just don't want to lose two in a row.

We don't know if the notice was never sent or if it was sent and got lost in the mail, ... What I do know is the notice should have been sent and as of today he still hasn't been revoked even though he should have long ago.

A. J. Liebling

In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

Adrienne Rich

If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.

Agatha Christie

"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

Adrian Rogers

To be almost saved is to be totally lost.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.

Abraham Maslow

It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.

Abraham Maslow

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

Abraham Lincoln

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

We stayed with it and never lost our poise.

We stayed in there as a team. Even though we were on a losing streak, we stayed together as a team.

Aleksandar Hemon

I think it's interesting, from a creative point of view, to have witnessed the loss of consciousness on a national level and on a cultural level - Bush had 91 percent support in the polls after 9/11. We wanted to kick some ass!

Aleksandar Hemon

I had an epiphany: I was a loser.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the objection that, after all the devastating losses we had experienced, it would be quite sufficient to have just one task: the preservation of a dying people.

Gloria Steinem

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

The rate at which it's losing material, while dramatic, doesn't take up much of the material of the moon.

Bess Myerson

People want gimmicks. They have to lose 10 pounds by 8:30 tonight.

Those were the types of teams that historically lost players during the free-agent cycle.

Jim Calhoun

Those were probably the loudest 11 points I have ever seen. Some nights you lose money; some nights you make money. Tonight, he made money.

Stephen King

Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

Charles Lamb

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.