Metaphors Quote by Cherie Priest

“Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway?”

— Isabel Allende

“Every advantage is temporary.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“Embrace your losses like you do your victories...you'll discover they're just preparing you for a greater victory in the future.”

— Maria Menounos

“I often wondered: is it some kind of a trade-off? Do others have to lose so we can win?”

— Zadie Smith

“If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.”

— Sun Tzu

“We gamble with the thought of winning. But it's the thought of what we might lose that excites us.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“None of us really has anything to lose. That makes it easier to give away.”

— Richard Bachman

“What's the point of holding on if I can't save the ones that I can't afford to lose?”

— Seanan McGuire

“That's what it's all about–knowing what you have to lose, but risking the loss anyway.”

— Julie Reece Deaver

“In order to advance, we have to take advantage not only of our success, but also of our failure.”

— Ghassan Shahrour MD

“...for, after all, we have nothing to lose but our aitches.”

— George Orwell

“The advantage of some is won by an equivalent loss of others.”

— William Graham Sumner