Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Hudson

I'm prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar! I hope it has inspired people.

Jeff Bezos

I told all of our original investors that they would lose their money for sure.

George S. Patton

I am sure that if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror or a corpse, he is sure to win. There is no doubt of that. Defeat is not due to losses but to the destruction of the Soul of the leaders-the 'live to fight another day' doctrine.

George Saunders

I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of control. Which isn't exactly right, because I didn't know what happened when you did drugs.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops? If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jenny Slate

I'd like to be in a tiny indie where I'm lost at sea.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of reality, and if that changed conception led to a change in behavior and action, a loss of ego.

Jeff Foxworthy

You might be a redneck if...the most serious loss from the earthquake was your Conway Twitty record collection.

Jean Kerr

If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

Jean Chretien

I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.

James Cameron

That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.

James A. Baldwin

Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.

Jacques Prevert

All will be lost apart from happiness.

Jacqueline Carey

Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.

Jack Vance

Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.

Christopher Hitchens

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.

Christopher Hitchens

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Gary Zukav

When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

Fulton J. Sheen

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

Christina Milian

The sun won't shine since you went away, seems like the rain's falling every day. There's just one heart, where there once was two; that's the way it's gotta be until I get over you.

Chris Scelfo

Wins and losses right now are important, but in reality it's the least of my concerns. My concern is to make sure than we give hope to anyone watching us. I am not going to judge this season on wins and losses.

Chris Hadfield

Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.

Chris Hadfield

Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.

Fran Drescher

I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.

George Orwell

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.

Frank Zappa

It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become a winner

Jeanette Winterson

I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persuade us of good fortune, when all the while the glass is emptying.

Jermaine O'Neal

My reward is just to be a better man. You're so close to losing a loved one ... the ultimate goal is to be a better daddy, a better son, a better teammate.

Frank R. Wolf

We're not losing the peace.

Christopher Alexander

We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial.

Christine Feehan

Maybe you are already lost and just do not know it.

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.