Loses Quotes
714 Loses quotes by 559 unique authors
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Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
— Kathleen Norris
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The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
— Oscar Wilde
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And what amazes me as I hit the motorway is not the fact that everyone loses someone, but that everyone loves someone. It seems like…
— Anne Enright
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Every dog has it's day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weakend.
— June Carter Cash
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In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in…
— Joan Didion
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Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer…
— C. Terry Warner
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The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is…
— Norman Mailer
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...more than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance of the look…
— Luce Irigaray
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They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses but…
— Neil Gaiman
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I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn…
— Saint Augustine
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It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life…
— Milan Kundera
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I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where she's hidden it.…
— Dani Shapiro
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How long can a man live on the outside before he loses his ability to love? How long before there's no more hope?
— Elizabeth Lowell
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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Romance goes like this: Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl again. The end. It can't be any other way.
— Nora Raleigh Baskin
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A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.
— H. L. Mencken
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When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old,…
— Sherman Alexie
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He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.
— Khalil Gibran
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All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought…
— William J. Clinton
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In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.
— Jodi Picoult
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
— William Shakespeare
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If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you…
— Terry Brooks
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