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“I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.”

Ifs Song Loses Gone Written Losing Dear African American Singer Songwriters Losing Someone

Author:Prince

“I'm sure that I'm a winner person. I'm sure that I win more than lose.”

Persons Winning Loses Winner

Author:Cristiano Ronaldo

“You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist or whatever, you spoil the whole book for that person if there's obviously ignorance here. What's wrong with so much science fiction is that the science is so lousy that it isn't worth paying attention to.”

Ifs Persons Book Whole Eye Loses Attention Fiction Ignorance Reader Science Fiction Pay Attention Engineers Spoil Blink Chemist Anthropologists Blink Of An Eye

Author:Robert Caro

“I've always had a theory that whenever guys and gals start swinging, they begin to lose interest in conquering the world. They just want a comfortable pad and stereo and wheels, and their thoughts turn to the good things of life - not to war. They loosen up, they live and they're more apt to let live.”

World Want War Guy Turns Interest Loses Theory Comfortable Good Things Conquer Wheels Pads Gals

Author:Frank Sinatra

“[A] society which makes freedom its primary goal will lose it, because it has made, not responsibility, but freedom from responsibility, its purpose. When freedom is the basic emphasis, it is not responsible speech which is fostered but irresponsible speech.”

Made Purpose Goal Loses Responsibility Speech Responsible Primaries Emphasis Irresponsible

Author:R.J. Rushdoony

“I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books I've read are left in airplanes and hotel rooms.”

Book Left Interest Loses Rooms Minutes Hotel Airplane Hotel Rooms

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“If I think of a joke that's really dirty and I think it's funny I'll try it but what I've found over the years is they just don't laugh. It doesn't work coming out of my mouth so it's like they taught me 'don't do that. Don't go that way or you'll lose me.'”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Years Found Loses Laughing Taught Jokes Mouths Dirty Coming Out

Author:Demetri Martin

“I am a feral person. I have no bank account. I am unemployable. I own nothing. I lose my shoes sometimes when I go out. It sounds like I'm making a case for my own exceptionalism, which I suppose I am, but I wish it wasn't true.”

Persons Sometimes Wish Sound Loses My Own Cases Accounts Shoes Bank Accounts Exceptionalism

Author:Tony Burgess

“I always liked to be fairly simple because you could get more players ready to play quickly. If you lose players to free agency, injuries, etc., it is easier to get young players ready to play in a less complex system.”

Ifs Play Young Loses Simple Player Ready Easier Complexes Agency Injury Etc Complex Systems Free Agency

Author:Tony Dungy

“When a comic becomes enamored with his own views and foists them off on the public in a polemic way, he loses not only his sense of humor but his value as a humorist.”

Way Values Loses Views Comic Sense Of Humor Humorists Enamored Polemics

Author:Johnny Carson

“My first concern is that when you go to a show, you should be present. It's much more exciting to put the camera down and lose yourself in it.”

Should Firsts Shows Loses Concern Exciting Down And Cameras Losing Yourself

Author:Bo Burnham

“I hate to lose. And when I do lose, I don't lose the lesson, I don't miss the message.”

Hate Loses Missing Lessons Messages I Hate

Author:Charles Tillman

“A lot of tournaments that I can remember I made a few bad shots and I was afraid I would lose the tournament and it seemed to work, the putts seemed to go in. Just the Desire.”

Made I Can Remember Desire Loses Shots Tournaments

Author:Arnold Palmer

“Sometimes you lose some tournaments you should win and you win some you should lose.”

Should Sometimes Winning Loses Tournaments

Author:Charlie Rose

“Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.”

Loses Very Good Good Desert Finding Yourself Losing Yourself Good Place

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“It is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage. That you lose hope. I don't want to lose hope. I get through every day. I'm pretty good. I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk.”

Want Loses Sleep Walks Abundance Idiocy

Author:Maurice Sendak

“At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.”

Giving Heart Littles Hands Joy Peace Loses Birth Limits Immortal Utterance Ineffable

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.”

Men God Loses Strive Strife Untruth Man Of God Never Lose Hope

Book:Young India, 1924-1926

Source: Young India, 1924-1926

“Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.”

Ifs Loses Universal Appeals Temples Hinduism

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!”

Sports Loses Balls Clubs Extras

Author:Casey Stengel

“The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.”

Should Long Left Loses Method Satyagraha Never Lose Hope

Book:Gandhi on Nehru

Source: Gandhi on Nehru

“People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.”

People War Matter Loses Fortune Engaged Temper

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.”

Loses Results Duty Performances Nerves Brooding

Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings

“Do you believe in that Infinite, good Providence working in and through you? If you believe that this Omnipresent One is present in every atom, is through and through, Ota-Prota, as the Sanskrit word goes, penetrating your body, mind and soul, how can you lose heart?”

Ifs Mind Believe Heart Soul Body Faith Loses Infinite Your Body Atoms Providence If You Believe Sanskrit Mind Body And Soul

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Men hate to lose. I once beat my husband at tennis. I asked him, "Are we going to have sex again?" He said, "Yes, but not with each other."”

Men Said Humor Funny Hate Sex Loses Husband Beats Tennis My Husband

Author:Rita Rudner

“A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night.”

Looks Night Loses Deals Talent Combination Clock Look Up Losing Yourself Something You Love

Author:George Lucas

“We don't think well of our presidents when they are serving. Even Kennedy, with such a short presidency, was beginning to lose his remarkable appeal to the American people when he was suddenly sainted by death.”

People Thinking Wells President Loses Appeals Remarkable Serving Presidency

Author:Charlton Heston

“It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.”

People Has Beens Women Loses Minutes Memorable Pretending

Author:Lillian Hellman

“My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple tags or lose a couple tags. The timing is always off.”

Loses Lines Materials Couple Gains Timing Tag Tweak

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.”

Sometimes Winning Loses Failing Not Afraid Afraid To Fail

Author:Bernie Mac

“Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later life. They should enjoy a diet of calcium-rich foods and avoid food and drink that causes bone loss.”

Should Young Causes Enjoy Loses Loss Rich Drink Mass Bones Diets Young Women Food And Drink Calcium

Author:Ann Richards

“I think sometimes, when you're on top and all you do is win, win, win, win, win, you get lazy and lose focus. When you lose it opens your eyes and you get serious. There is always a time when it is good to lose, at the right time for you.”

Thinking Sometimes Eye Winning Loses Focus Serious Lazy Right Time Win Win

Author:Usain Bolt

“The art of moviemaking seems to get thrown away. The cinematography is gone, and the look of everything becomes of little importance. You lose the memorable images; everything looks like it's been shot at night with a security camera.”

Looks Littles Art Seems Night Loses Gone Security Shots Importance Cameras Memorable Thrown Cinematography

Author:Rob Zombie

“If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each.”

Ifs Stories Loses Memories Rely Embedded

Author:Jason Mraz

“Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?”

Ifs Kind Felt Loses Failing Treats Relative Misunderstood

Author:Al Pacino

“I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win.”

Play Hate Winning Sports Loses I Hate Loser Play To Win Sore Losers

Author:Snoop Dogg

“With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear; if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.”

Ifs Mind Heart Long Shows Hands Christian Fall Grows Goal Loses Walks Holy Safe Protection Guides Favors Deception Weary Blessed Mother Holy Mary

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.”

Ifs Men May Has Beens Christian Spiritual Mother Father Loses Virtue Honor Holy Salvation Charity Fruit Overlooked Holy Mary

Author:Pope Gregory VII

“I'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to pursue that and see what response I could get from asyndicate, as I didn't have anything to lose at that point. So I drew up a comic strip - this was in 1980 - and sent it off and got rejected. I continued that for five years with different comic strip examples 'til finally Calvin and Hobbes came together. But it's been a long road.”

Years Long Different Would Be Together Felt Loses Chance Five Example Response Pursue Comic Enjoyed Five Years Rejected Unemployed Good Chance Hobbes Comic Strips Long Road

Author:Bill Watterson

“I'm a big believer that, in life, we can't succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.”

Bigs Loses Succeed Believer

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was drilled into me.”

Ideas Jobs Parent Loses Disaster Paychecks

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“I always want everything read in one sitting. If they can't read it in one sitting, you're going to lose the rhythm of it. You're going to lose the shape of it.”

Ifs Want Loses Shapes Sitting Rhythm

Author:Joan Didion

“It's much easier when your team's winning. When your team starts to lose, that's where a lot of these quarterback controversies divide a locker room. The key, as a pro, is to be a pro.”

Winning Loses Rooms Team Keys Easier Divides Controversy Quarterback Lockers Locker Room

Author:Kurt Warner

“Fear is all the fear of some loss: "I'm going to lose something." If we declare, and if we know in our hearts, "I already have everything that I need: I have life, I have creativity, I have joy, I have nourishment. I have everything I need," and if we just say, "It doesn't depend on my having a physical body to do it," then everything opens up.”

Ifs Knows Needs Heart Body Joy Loses Loss Creativity Depends Nourishment Physical Body

Author:Richard Bach

“"What is my highest sense of right?" we can ask at any decision point in our lives and not worry about if this is going to lose us a lot of money or is this going to make us a lot of money or whatever.”

Ifs Asks Loses Decision Worry Our Lives Highest Lots Of Money

Author:Richard Bach

“But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.”

Night Loses Memories Sea Sadness Return Sad Ambition Flow Delight Hungry Bitter Heels Gloom Withered

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

“Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?”

Knows May Running Loses Fire Waste Anger Hot Violent Heat Foe Liquor Seeming Furnaces Outrun Swiftness

Book:Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”

“If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.”

Ifs Two Hands Asks Friendship Loses Accepting Judging Friends Gains Catholic Saint Stranger Disputes Request Hippo One Friend Two Friends Christian Friends

Author:Saint Augustine

“Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.”

May Wisdom Grows Loses Wise Spite Endeavor Advise Convicts

Book:The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author

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