Famous Quotes & Sayings

In the state finals, you win your match first and then you go for the pin. You don't put yourself at risk to lose the match just for a team title.

In the first set I went out and played my game. The second set I let her play my game. In the third set she lost some momentum because I got to do what I do best.

In our league, if you lose one game, you're pretty much out of it.

Rain Phoenix

I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.

I played well. It's not like I lost it. I was completely pleased with the way Sunday turned out.

Jenny Lewis

In the past, like for the last Rilo Kiley record, 'Under the Blacklight,' I wore exclusively hot pants because the themes in that record were the underbelly of Los Angeles.

In that time, at least one woman has lost her husband, or one parent has lost a child. It's not 400,000 dead. It's 400,000 people that all had families, all had lives.

In that game, yeah, it's tough to lose Warren.

James Hillman

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

Jared Padalecki

I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

The diversity of our cultures is Europe's greatest asset. We have to preserve this asset. And any political intervention that reduces this diversity is a loss to Europe.

Janet Fitch

The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

Ethan Hawke

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

Ernst Mayr

The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started by a single pair or by a single fertilized female. These 'founders' of the population carried with them only a very small proportion of the variability of the parent population. This 'founder' principle sometimes explains even the uniformity of rather large populations, particularly if they are well isolated and near the borders of the range of the species.

Cassandra Clare

A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.

Cassandra Clare

Change is no loss, Will. Not always.

Caroline Knapp

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

Kim Edwards

I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story.

Jeremy Rifkin

A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times. The very idea that a human being's worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world where much of life is lived on the Collaborative Commons.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

Fred Rogers

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

George H. W. Bush

Every loss of life is terrible.

Harold Brodkey

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

Greg Norman

It's not the victories that count to me. It's the quality of how you deliver your losses and the quality of how you deliver your victories.

Jim Butcher

Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year.... Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.

Jim Butcher

I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one.

Jean de la Bruyere

Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.

Jay-Z

Is to have had and lost/Better than not having at all?

Jay-Z

just when i thought i had everything, i lost it all

Jay Roach

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

Jay Griffiths

If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

Jay Griffiths

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.