Losing Quotes - Page 26

• Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, 'I've been an inexplicable fool', for anything from losing his keys to burping out loud. Her reply to anything she wanted to do was Jane Bennet's response to Bingley's marriage proposal, 'A thousand times yes.

  Melina Marchetta

  Apology, Pride, Keys

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• This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.

  Malcolm X

  Cheating, Winning, Gambling

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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• There comes a time when you're losing a fight that it just doesn't make sense to keep on fighting. It's not that you're being a quitter, it's just that you've got the sense to know when enough is enough.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Fighting, Enough, There Comes A Time

  Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.

  Che Guevara

  Grows, Hard, Tenderness

  "Essential Care: An Ethics of Human Nature". Book by Leonardo Boff, p. 82, 2008.

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• I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself.

  Veronica Roth

  Art, Looks, Calm

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• No, seriously,' choked Sam, his eyes streaming. 'You're such a loser, that you've actually stopped losing and have progressed to having just lost. It's over. The game is over. You have lost the game of life. Do not pass Go. Do not collect two hundred dollars.

  Lili Wilkinson

  Eye, Games, Two

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• Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.

  Marguerite Duras

  Way, Happened

  Marguerite Duras (2015). “The Malady of Death”, p.14, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

  Alain de Botton

  Loss, Frustration, Intellectual

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• Losing isn't as bad as not fighting at all.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Fighting

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• There's no district 12 to escape from now, no Peacekeepers to trick, no hungry mouths to feed. The Capitol took away all of that, and I'm on the verge of losing Gale as well. The glue of mutual needs that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away.

  Suzanne Collins

  Years, Melting Away, Together

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.

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• Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.

  Gayle Forman

  Jail, Would Be, Easy

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.103, Penguin

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• I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Years, Leaving, Another Chance

  "Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 2011.

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• What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood.

  Ron Rash

  Grief, Losing Someone, Tree

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• Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.

  Pat Conroy

  Winning, Tragedy, Encounters

  Pat Conroy (2002). “My Losing Season”, Nan A. Talese

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• I read somewhere, one, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside of me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, towards life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.

  Veronica Roth

  Real, Eye, Animal

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• I find so many people struggling, often working harder, simply because they cling to old ideas. They want things to be the way they were; they resist change. I know people who are losing their jobs or their houses, and they blame technology or the economy or their boss. Sadly they fail to realize that they might be the problem. Old ideas are their biggest liability. It is a liability simply because they fail to realize that while that idea or way of doing something was an asset yesterday, yesterday is gone.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Struggle, Technology

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• It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.

  Charles Colson

  Healing, Self, Achievement

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.25, Zondervan

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• That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

  Bill Bryson

  Mind, Too Late, Gone

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• It's too late. It was too late by the time I arrived in London to turn your notebook into a dove; there were too many people already involved. Anything either of us does has an effect on everyone here, on every patron who walks through those gates. Hundreds if not thousands of people. All flies in a spiderweb that was spun when I was six years old and now I can barely move for fear of losing someone else.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Notebook, Moving, Years

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.323, Random House

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• Choose battles that you can win without losing your heart and your soul.

  P. C. Cast

  Heart, Winning, Soul

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• I'm not losing you again. You're with me. I want you there beside me. Always.

  Abbi Glines

  Want, You Again, I Want You

  Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too much. But there are these feelings inside me which need badly to escape, I guess. And this makes me feel relieved because one of my big concerns these past few years is that I've been losing my ability to feel things with the same intensity- the way I felt when I was younger. It's scary- to feel your emotions floating away and just not caring. I guess what's really scary is not caring about the loss.

  Douglas Coupland

  Loss, Caring, Past

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Heart, Museums, Compulsion

  "Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence - in pictures", www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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• She is well practiced in the art of losing herself.

  Veronica Roth

  Art, Wells

  Veronica Roth (2011). “Divergent (Divergent, Book 1)”, p.1, HarperCollins UK

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• We need music the most when we’re feeling things really intensely. I think the most intense times in your life are when you’re either falling in love or losing it

  Taylor Swift

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Feelings

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