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“We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.”

Knows Winning Sides Loses Economic Modern Waste Gains Destruction Scales Warfare Win Or Lose Modern Warfare

Book:The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

“I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose.”

Thinking Winning Loses Loss Losing Parks Expecting Negativity

Author:Eric Davis

“I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?”

Firsts Use Shows Loses First Time Nightmare Virginity Condom

Author:Adam Ant

“I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'”

People Looks Different Problem Wanted Causes Sound Loses Records Lows Suicide Albums Boredom Threshold Good Records

Author:Adam Ant

“When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.”

World Want Used Loses Hurt Dangerous Essentials Vulnerability Being A Woman Forsake Been Hurt Dangerous World

Author:John Eldredge

“If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.”

Ifs Needs Done Whole Together Sides Loses Party Identity Folks Accomplish Aisle

Author:Tom Allen

“You can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough.”

Enough Philosophy Body Loses Pleasure Your Body Numb Losing Yourself

Author:Meat Loaf

“I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.”

Thinking Firsts Made Sometimes Artist Loses Sight

Author:Chris Lowe

“Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.”

People Mean Fun Sound Loses Privacy Very Famous

Author:Colin Wilson

“What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.”

Writing Trying Moving Loses Too Much Particular Reader Series Harm Genre Thrive Self Harm Moving Away

Author:John Connolly

“In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.”

Should Play Action Reading Loses Remembered

Author:George P. Baker

“To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.”

Men Loses Liberty Habit Drink Longing Smoke Servant Meat

Book:The Works of Jeremy Taylor

Source: The Works of Jeremy Taylor

“To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.”

Play Winning Names Loses Losing Scandal Converses You Can Win

Book:Love for Love

Source: Love for Love

“Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead.”

Ifs Way Feels Success Winning Loses Enthusiasm Win Or Lose

Author:James Caan

“I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football.”

Loses Football Ambition Weight Playing Football

Author:John Barnes

“In a Christian Theocracy, you'll never be Christian enough. There's always going to be somebody there with another version of Christianity that is more Christian than you and you're going to lose the freedom to make the choice because you didn't defend the Separation of Church and State when you had the chance.”

States Enough Christian Choices Loses Church Chance Christianity Separation Versions Church And State Separation Of Church And State Theocracy

Author:David Silverman

“Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.”

Men Should Looks Loses Race Fame Presses Glorious

Book:The Poetical Works of Edward Young: In Four Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:

Source: The Poetical Works of Edward Young: In Four Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:

“Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”

Men Persons Self States Action Desire Loses Liberty Strange Fame Servant Sovereign Thrice Power Over Others

Book:The Conduct of the Understanding: With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon

Source: The Conduct of the Understanding: With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon

“The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.”

Life May Ends Life Is Games Loses Hurt Life Is Good

Book:Jack London Six Pack

Source: Jack London Six Pack

“I find myself in situations that I know would be unbelievable pictures and I have to gauge, Is this worth taking the camera out? Am I gonna lose the moment? Am I gonna get a dirty look from Sting?”

Knows Looks Moments Would Be Loses Situation Cameras Dirty Unbelievable Gauges

Author:John Mayer

“When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.”

Years Lost Parent Loses Dad My Dad Thank God Vietnam

Author:Fred Wilson

“If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.”

Ifs World Lasts Spirit Loses Poverty Driven Naked Selfishness Contempt Everlasting Forlorn

Book:Christian Love: As Manifested in the Heart and Life

Source: Christian Love: As Manifested in the Heart and Life

“Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, brings a pleasure that, when we come to the trial, we had rather live in much pain and misery than lose.”

Men World Ideas Moments Seems Pain Beautiful Loses Pleasure Bears Sight Misery Lovely Trials Miserable Love Life

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.”

People Feelings Loses Average Supreme Causality

Author:Paul Goodman

“An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world to lose, is that afterward one cannot be sure that one was somewhere or had newly experienced anything. If you aren't much in the world, how do you know you are "out of this world"?”

Ifs Knows World Self Loses This World Consequence Do You Know Awkward Transcendence

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“Meditation puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight of this, it can become just another strategy for seeking happiness - a more refined version of the problem you already have.”

Ifs Problem Loses Meditation Sight Strategy Seeking Versions Refined Searching For Happiness Seeking Happiness

Author:Sam Harris

“Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It's just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse than that is if we live long enough, we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean people die and disappear, and we're left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them.”

People Ifs Thinking World Way Mean Long Enough Facts Dies Left Loses Knowing Happened Mystery This World Disappear Not Knowing Sheer Astonishing Starks Mean People

Author:Sam Harris

“Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.”

World Process Loses Doctrine Radical

Author:John Piper

“Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried.”

Loses Movement Lows Urgency Corridors

Book:The wanderer

Source: The wanderer

“We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.”

People Reality Next Loses Personality One Day Narrative Thread Constructs

Author:Paul Auster

“A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.”

Men Loses Money Five Fool Accounts Dollars Profit Expenses Cents

Author:Gene Fowler

“I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.”

Way Years Games Loses Modern Football Coaches Modern Life Eleven Football Coach

Author:Abe Lemons

“Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes ... Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths... Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.”

“With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.”

Easy Loses Levels Perspective Ego Musical

Author:Joe Walsh

“It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because you will waste time in terms of years.”

Years Easy Term Loses Advice Perspective Drug Waste Musician Alcohol Wasting Time Easy To Get

Author:Joe Walsh

“I've been playing the father of teenagers for years. People always thought that I was 40 when I was 26. Once you lose your hair, they're like "Oh! He's really old now."”

People Years Father Loses Hair Teenager

Author:Stanley Tucci

“As you become famous you lose some of your anonymity, which is wonderful for an actor to have because you can observe people and also people don't have such a strong sense of who you are and that sort of thing.”

People Actors Strong Loses Wonderful Who You Are Anonymity

Author:Jeff Bridges

“With no gravitational force to work against, your body not only doesn't need the same amount of muscle and bone, it starts breaking them down. As on Earth, so in space: use it or lose it. And exercise may not solve the problem.”

Needs May Use Problem Body Earth Force Loses Space Amount Exercise Solve Bones Your Body Muscles Use It Or Lose It

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I love acting in the theater,but I'm fascinated with acting on film. If it's a film or a play or whatever, if the writing is good and you really feel passionate about it, you just can't lose. You'll grow from it. Whether it's a success or not is neither here nor there; you're going to grow as an artist from this experience.”

Ifs Feels Writing Play Film Artist Grows Loses Acting Theater Passionate Fascinated

Author:Jonathan Groff

“I think a good thing to always remember is to just keep your head on straight and don't lose your feet.”

Thinking Remember Loses Feet Good Things

Author:Liam Hemsworth

“Every time you run a 35mm print, it picks up scratches. It picks up dirt. Sometimes it breaks, and you have to re-splice it. You lose frames. This doesn't happen with digital or Blu-ray. I think that's great. Because I love the new media.”

Thinking Sometimes Happens Running Loses Break Media Picks Digital Print Rays Dirt Scratches New Media

Author:William Friedkin

“Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change. If something is incredibly difficult to connect to, and painful, then I have to do a lot of work to connect to that and not joke around or lose sight of my job.”

Ifs Jobs Difficult Loses Jokes Sight Painful Technique Requirements

Author:Adrien Brody

“Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.”

Should Faces Loses Fronts Relation Angry Stranger

Author:James Clavell

“But I really can't and I actually don't like switching off because I worry that I might lose my thread, or something. I fall asleep and I hope to God that I'm going to dream about it, because then I don't have to put it down.”

Dream Might Fall Loses Worry Thread Switching Switching Off

Author:Kate Winslet

“I left the studio at 5:30 in the morning. It's an incredible mind exercise. You have to, obviously, have stamina, but you really feel like you're kind of feeding your mind. It's a challenge of learning lines very fast and then you have to be lose enough to hopefully make good choices in a much shorter amount of time that it takes to film certain scenes.”

Feels Mind Kind Enough Film Certain Choices Left Loses Challenges Lines Morning Like You Amount Exercise Scene Incredibles Studios Hopefully Feeding Stamina Good Choices

Author:Glenn Close

“don't mean to sound weird but I get so immersed in the source material when I'm working on a movie that I kind of lose the line between what I thought of and what was in the book.”

Kind Mean Book Sound Loses Lines Materials Source

Author:Zack Snyder

“Every time you need protein, get yourself a boiled egg in. But your main meals would be chicken, or hummus, or white fish. You can lose about a pound a day. But you can do this stuff over a period of time, and you can have your happy days. It's about motivation and it has to be something that's realistic for you to keep up.”

Needs Would Be Motivation Stuff Can Do Loses White Periods Fishes Meals Pounds Eggs Chickens Realistic Protein Happy Day Boiled Eggs Hummus

Author:Tom Hardy

“Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean... You win some, you lose some.”

Winning Loses Careers Ocean Bottom Cycles

Author:Brendan Fraser

“Most films and directors lose their nerve and want to indicate [emotions] a bit more, to show that their story is clear. I'm not saying that's a good thing; as an actor its anathema to good acting, but to have someone with the confidence to say that should I be utterly natural and minimalist is great.”

Want Should Stories Shows Film Actors Bits Loses Natural Acting Emotion Clear Directors Good Things Nerves Should I Minimalist Anathema Good Acting

Author:Matt Damon

“Privacy is important. Anybody who doesn't think that, they're crap. But I know I'm going to lose some of that and that's something I'll have to deal with.”

Thinking Knows Important Loses Deals Privacy Crap

Author:Daniel Craig

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