A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his…

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of…

— Samuel Johnson

The one function that most gods seem to have in common is to give human existence some ultimate purpose - and, while it is…

— Barbara Smoker

We have reached the point where we can lose a game or two and not drop out of sight in the rankings. I've been…

— LaVell Edwards

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

— Abraham Lincoln

My mother loved my father. From my view, she let him get away with too much. It broke my heart to see him in…

— John Edgar Wideman

Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.

— Desmond Tutu

My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of…

— Jerome Kerviel

To accomplish much you must first lose everything.

— Che Guevara

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the…

— Amy Tan

Learn to see the big picture. Often times we get tunnel vision and lose sight of the big picture and what we're really trying…

— Robert Cheeke

When the dollar collapses, it's not doing it in a vacuum. If the dollar loses value, it's doing so relative to some other currency.…

— Peter Schiff

You want to remain hungry and stay in a good place as a competitor; at the same time, you want to be confident but…

— Lamar Odom

If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.

— Joseph Joffre

The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against…

— Nils Frahm

Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.

— Rupert Murdoch