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“Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.”

People World Looks Sometimes Whole Feelings Reading Waiting Loses Talking Morning This World Happenings My Friends Journalist

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.”

Ends Whole Character Feelings Reality Lost Stuff Loses Comedy Emotional Empty Connections Viewers Strain Bananas Emotional Connection Funny Stuff

Author:Mike White

“When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don't feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don't run my mouth.”

Whole Running Stuff Loses Rooms Talking Mouths Bunch Negativity

Author:Allen Iverson

“The Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I was lucky enough to go twice, but most people only get one chance. And in judo you can train your whole life and it’ll come down to a split second: You can lose everything or win anything.”

People Enough Whole Winning Loses Chance Lucky Train Lifetime Whole Life Splits Olympics Judo One Chance Once In A Lifetime

Author:Ronda Rousey

“My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That's who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you're perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.”

Years Whole Problem Winning Loses Hurt Doubt Whole Life Who I Am Guilty Hated No Doubt Camps Aggressive

Author:Peter M. Brant

“He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.”

Giving Whole Wish Loses Half Borrowing

Book:The Epigrams of Martial

Source: The Epigrams of Martial

“The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.”

Self Whole Individual Loses Forget Sacrifice Society Produce Losing Impulse Mask Collectives Willingness Forget It Readiness Unwanted Compact Revulsion Slough

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.”

Doe Has Beens Whole Happens Would Be Loses Loss Economy Groups Possibility Particular Higher Gains Acceptable Fixing Transactions Gains And Losses

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.”

Humans Whole Loses Race Forgiveness Revenge Human Race Vengeance

Book:It's Murder, Mr. Potter

Source: It's Murder, Mr. Potter

“Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and intertwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally, I do not mean figuratively, but literally impossible for us to figure what the loss would be if these teachings were removed. We would lose all the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals; all the standards toward which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves.”

“Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.”

Whole Spiritual Order Loses Sin Benefits Advantage Concern Catholic Whole Life Customs Amendments

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.”

Ifs Heart Whole Truth Religion Individual Nations Loses Tomorrow Refuse Hopeful Metaphysics Hope For Tomorrow

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“The whole secret to winning and losing in the stock market is to lose the least amount possible when you're not right.”

Whole Winning Loses Secret Amount Losing Winning And Losing

Author:William O'Neil

“It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.”

Ifs World Way Soul Whole Loses Forget Gains Sticks Fingers Whole World Your Soul Prudent Slipping

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“It's a fine balance between design and the thing making itself happen. The stroke has to have complete precision to work. Sometimes I lose it on the exit. You can't fudge it. It ruins the whole thing.” The resulting figures are almost always contained within the rectangle. “It's less of a window if I keep it within the confines of the canvas, but there's almost always a drip that's an umbilical cord.”

Ifs Sometimes Whole Happens Loses Figures Design Fine Balance Window Ruins Canvas Strokes Exit Precision Cords Fudge Umbilical Cord Rectangles

Author:James Nares

“I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence.”

“You are thinking about where your brain is at any time. It's very tricky but it's why women are very well suited to rule the world in the future, because of the multi-tasking they do and their ability to be moving in 15 directions at once. It's the women who behave like men, who focus in that singular way with the blinkers on, who have problems. You get a lot more done that way maybe, but you also lose the perception of who's behind you, what's going on, the 360 degrees of it, the whole picture of life that we do have as women.”

Thinking Men World Way Wells Done Whole Problem Moving Loses Ability Behinds Brain Focus Degrees Perception Behave Tricky Behind You Moving In Whole Picture Multi Tasking Blinkers

Author:Meryl Streep