Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Robinson

We're losing ballgames that we should be winning, ... and pretty soon it will be too late.

We're losing $1 million a year playing in Richmond.

Maajid Nawaz

I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

Britney Spears

Oops! . . . I did it again. I played with your heart, got lost in the game,

Brian Robison

People are going to lose before the end of the year. Hopefully, it won't be us.

(Texas) A&M was probably the second-toughest loss I've ever experienced in my 15 years. That was a tough one.

My thoughts just now are with Graham. He has lost his job, and that was harsh. I feel strongly about that.

Patti Smith

My son and daughter lost their father quite young, so we keep him present with us. It's just a daily practice.

Ken Livingstone

Londoners will be wondering what the RMT actually want. They are getting a 35-hour week with no loss of pay and no reduction in staffing.

Look at it like it's your 'Vegas money,' so if you lose every penny you don't have to sell your home,

Alice James

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

Alice Hoffman

The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.

Anne Lamott

Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.

Ann Voskamp

Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.

Andy Roddick

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

Albert Camus

The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.

Annie Dillard

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Clay Shirky

The loss of control you fear is already in the past.

Daniel Kahneman

If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.

Daniel Kahneman

The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.

Daniel Kahneman

Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie.

Daniel Kahneman

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.

Daniel Kahneman

When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.

D. H. Lawrence

In masturbation there is nothing but loss.

Clare Short

And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.

Daniel Defoe

Business neglected is business lost.

What we're trying to do is protect some of the treasures of Charlevoix. I think we've lost so many already,

Alexander Pope

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.

E. O. Wilson

The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ... The intellectual solution to the first dilemma can be achieved by a deeper and more courageous examination of human nature that combines the findings of biology with those of the social sciences.

E. O. Wilson

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

Don DeLillo

The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly often - completely surprising combinations that make a higher kind of sense, that come to you out of nowhere. But rarely for extended periods, for paragraphs and pages - I think poets must have more access to this state than novelists do.

Don Knotts

I don't know what to say. I've always been a prepared loser.

Donald Johanson

There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.