Loses Quotes

714 Loses quotes by 559 unique authors

I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's… — A.M. Homes
Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your loses for too long. — Robert Jordan
I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses. — Alexandre Dumas
Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous. — Will Durant
The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the… — Erich Fromm
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future. — Kathleen Norris
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
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
Every dog has it's day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weakend. — June Carter Cash
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
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
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
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
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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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