Losing Quotes - Page 25

• Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

  Victor Hugo

  Winning, Voice, Progress

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.

  Ann Voskamp

  Years, Awareness, Eternity

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.77, Zondervan

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• The entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. They shouldn't have cared so much that they were losing blind taste tests with old Coke, and we shouldn't at all be surprised that Pepsi's dominance in blind taste tests never translated to much in the real world. Why not? Because in the real world, no one ever drinks Coca-Cola blind.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Real, Principles, Pepsi

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• ‎I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Too Late, Late, Wanted

  "The Time Traveler's Wife". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• J.T Woodland, known as “the cute one” in The Corporation’s seventh-grade boy band, Boyz Will B Boyz. Due to the success of their triple-platinum hit, “Let Me Shave Your Legs Tonight, Girl,” Boyz Will B Boyz ruled the charts for a solid eleven months before hitting puberty and losing ground to Hot Vampire Boyz.

  Libba Bray

  Cute, Girl, Boys

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• If you love someone, they leave you. But if you don't love someone, they leave you, too. So your choice isn't between loving and losing but only between loving and not loving.

  Steve Rasnic Tem

  Choices, If You Love Someone, Ifs

  Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem (2008). “The Man on the Ceiling”, Wizards of the Coast Discoveries

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• When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Hate, People

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• Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each year, unless I find a cure.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Country, Fate, Winter

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.569, Scholastic Inc.

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• Don't think of it as losing a boyfriend. Think of it as gaining a stalker." -Dan Cahill

  Gordon Korman

  Thinking

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• Will's face turned grave. "Be careful with it, though. It's six hundred years old and the only copy of its kind. Losing or damaging it is punishable by death under the Law." Tessa thrust the book away from her as if it were on fire. "You can't be serious." "You're right. I'm not." Will leapt down from the ladder and landed lightly in front of her. "You do believe everything I say, though, don't you? Do I seem unusually trustworthy to you, or are you just a naive sort?

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Book, Years

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare's, the Cornish sea.

  Iris Murdoch

  Song, Sea, May

  Iris Murdoch (1976). “A Severed Head”, p.57, Penguin

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• I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Thinking, Rats

  Waste Land (1922) pt. 2

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• Commitment means losing yourself to gain something temporary. Nothing lasts. Not looks. Not love.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mean, Commitment, Perfect

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fight Club Book, Fight Club Novel

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.22, Random House

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• Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to people when you try to help their broken hearts, but words can't help at all. It's just the sound of another human voice that makes the only difference. There's nothing you're ever going to say that's going to make anybody happy when they're feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love.

  Richard Brautigan

  Heart, Voice, Differences

  Richard Brautigan (1995). “Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He tasted deeper, holding himself over me, and suddenly he was everywhere; his knee trapping my leg, his lips grazing warm, rough, sensuous. He splayed his hand at the small of my back, holding me tightly, driving me to sink my fingers deeper into him, clinging to him as if letting go would mean losing part of myself.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Letting Go, Mean, Hands

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• No. I kind of accepted it, in a way. That saving you was worth losing what we might've had.

  James Dashner

  Saving, Might, Way

  James Dashner (2013). “Maze Runner 2: The Scorch Trials”, p.230, Chicken House

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• I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life. You haunted me to the point that I began to believe Hank had gone back on his oath and killed you. I couldn't escape you and I didn't want to. You tortured me, but it was better than losing you.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Believe, Angel, Loss

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• Let me tell you a secret: there is no such thing as an uninteresting life One day you must tell me your full and complete story, unabridged and unexpurgated.We will set aside some time for it, and meet. It's very important. Maneck smiled. 'Why is it important?' It's extremely important because it helps to remind yourself of who you are. Then you can go forward, without fear of losing yourself in this ever-changing world.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Secret, Important, One Day

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• All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Then man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords.

  George R. R. Martin

  Strong, Cutting, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.476, Bantam

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• Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

  Alice Hoffman

  Life, Mean, Losing Everything

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• Love, what is love? I don't think you can really put it into words. Love is understanding someone, caring for him, sharing his joys and sorrows. This eventually includes physical love. You've shared something, given something away and received something in return, whether or not you're married, whether or not you have a baby. Losing your virtue doesn't matter, as long as you know that for as long as you live you'll have someone at your side who understands you, and who doesn't have to be shared with anyone else!

  Anne Frank

  Baby, Love You, Caring

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• Grandma, please. It’s okay. Dad’s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not losing his temper with everyone around him who isn’t in childbirth. And he has yet to start shooting lighting bolts at people. Poor Damien still has a burn scar.” – Kat

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Jobs, Dad, Grandma

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.400, St. Martin's Press

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• I'm losing myself trying to compete With everyone else instead of just being me Don't know where to turn I've been stuck in this routine I need to change my ways Instead of always being weak I don't wanna be afraid I wanna wake up feeling beautiful today And know that I'm okay 'Cause everyone's perfect in unusual ways You see, I just wanna believe in me

  Demi Lovato

  Beautiful, Believe, Perfect

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• May be you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

  Jodi Picoult

  May, Remember, Be You

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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