Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Waitley

Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.

Deb Caletti

Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss.

Diego Rivera

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

As we lose ourselves in the service of others, we discover our own lives and our own happiness.

Dick Ebersol

The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.

Dick Cavett

I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.

Dennis Lehane

And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.

Earl Hines

If you see me up there on the stand smiling, I'm lost!

Eliza Dushku

Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something.

Newt Gingrich

When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on?'

When you've lost something, and you find it again, it has so much more meaning.

Kyle Petty

When you've lost a son, there's no price you can put on safety for the driver.

William Shakespeare

I can give the loser leave to chide.

William Shakespeare

Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . . . then wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.

Nick Flynn

Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way; you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth.

If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul

Lauren Worsham

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

Agnes Repplier

If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.

Charles Taylor

There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.

Charles Dudley Warner

The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.

Charles Caleb Colton

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

Charles Dickens

... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last, I will befriend him. And if any consideration could shake me in this resolve, I should be so ashamed of myself for my meanness, that no man's good opinion - no, nor no woman's - so gained, could compensate me for the loss of my own.

Charles Dickens

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

Charles Stross

I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s.

Charles Spurgeon

The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost.

Charles Spurgeon

If there were no hell, the loss of heaven would be hell.

Alan Greenspan

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

Focus all your meals around high-quality animal protein. You should eat a large variety, and plan your meals around which kind of protein you'll be eating.

Potatoes have such a high GI rating; it's almost the same as eating table sugar.

The Glycemic Index is one the best tools for fat loss. It measures how quickly foods breakdown into sugar in your bloodstream.

Al Sharpton

If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.

Diane Wakoski

Innocence is suffering and the loss of that innocence is something to fear.

Dhani Jones

The most important thing regardless of my stats or anybody else's stats is the win-loss record. In the locker room people are always telling me, you're doing this and that. I don't really pay that much attention so long as we have a 'W' in that column; that's the kind of thing that makes me really happy. It blows all stats out of the water.