Loses Quotes
714 quotes by 559 authors
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When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
— Carl Linnaeus
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Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some say…
— Herta Muller
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If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling
— Geezer Butler
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You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can. If you love everyone and everything you lose your natural powers of selection and…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created…
— Paulo Freire
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As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and…
— Thomas a Kempis
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America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?
— Azar Nafisi
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When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
— Andrew Sullivan
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Homosexuals now pervade and control American government at every level and branch. Thus, only those churches that support and promote the militant homosexual agenda enjoy…
— Fred Phelps
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One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have…
— Anatol Rapoport
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The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his…
— Samuel Pisar
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Although he travels all day, the sage never loses sight of his luggage carts.
— Laozi
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Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us…
— Harold Nicolson
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You can leave the Church, but you can’t leave it alone. The basic reason for this is simple. Once someone has received a witness of…
— Glenn L. Pace
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One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
— Mary Engelbreit
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The manner in which one loses the battle can sometimes outshine the victory.
— David Millar
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and…
— Al McGuire
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Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends the will away…
— Timothy Keller
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Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, sit down with myself and explain that things were going to be okay, that everybody loses…
— Donald Miller
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