Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Sessions

He may lose some effectiveness as an independent,

He (Mendoza) should not have been open. We lost sight of our coverage.

Joe Girardi

We can lose some tough games, can't we?

We can go and tear them down, but they just go back up. It's a losing battle. There's no way to keep up.

This was not our day; it was actually a very embarrassing loss for us.

What do you do in a situation like this? I'm at a loss for words.

Nick Garcia

We train them for better things. Then we lose them.

When he walked Christensen, I thought he had lost it. I let him stay for two more batters and got us in a jam.

Charles Darwin

I am not very skeptical... a good deal of skepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time, but I have met not a few men, who... have often thus been deterred from experiments or observations which would have proven servicable.

Charles Babbage

It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.

Blaise Pascal

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

Billie Joe Armstrong

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

Ludwig von Mises

Capital does not 'beget profit' as Marx thought. The capital goods as such are dead things that in themselves do not accomplish anything. If they are utilized according to a good idea, profit results. If they are utilized according to a mistaken idea, no profit or losses result. It is the entrepreneurial decision that creates either profit or loss.

Kevin Stallings

We had a very disappointing loss (to South Carolina) and it will be very interesting to see how our team handles it. In this league, you don't have time to mourn a loss.

Chris Evert

When I play, I'm boiling inside. I just try not to show it because it's a lack of composure, and if you give in to your emotions after one loss, you're liable to have three or four in a row.

Chris Evert

Losses are always a relief. They take a burden off me, make me feel more normal. If I win several tournaments in a row I get so confident I'm in a cloud. If I lose I go back to the dressing room and I'm no better nor worse than anyone else. A loss gets me eager again.

Charles Spurgeon

When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.

Charles Peguy

We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a single wrong to justice and to right, particularly if it is universally, legally, nationally, commodiously accepted, that a single crime shatters and is sufficient to shatter the whole social pact, the whole social contract, that a single legal crime, a single dishonorable act will bring about the loss of ones honor, the dishonor of a whole people. It is a touch of gangrene that corrupts the entire body.

We have simply lost a lot of high-paying jobs,

Carl Sandburg

Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

C. S. Lewis

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

C. S. Lewis

Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved… Of all powers he forgives most, but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all.

Darcy Tucker

We've said since the time we lost the two Montreal games, we won't quit.

Calvin Coolidge

A lost article invariably shows up after you replace it.

Carnie Wilson

There's a huge emotional component to weight loss.

Alain de Botton

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

My first Solheim was when we lost at Dalmahoy (in Scotland) in 1992,

Tim Henman

One of us is going to win and one of us is going to lose but it won't be the be-all and end-all.

Cary Fukunaga

One of my problems with a lot of things I watch is that everybody's too pretty, and it takes me out of the film because I'm thinking that all these people look like I've seen them in a cafe in Los Angeles.

Obviously we will try to win the match...no matter we have lost the first two matches.

No one realized how devastating this was going to be, ... Many of these people have lost everything.

Bobby Bowden

No one has ever said anything to me about (retiring). Of course, if I lose about two more games, they will.