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Losing Quotes (page 21)

John Mellencamp quote: "Don't ever lose that innocent laughter, don't let time take..."
Don't ever lose that innocent laughter, don't let time take that away John Mellencamp
Stephen Sondheim quote: "Children can only grow from something you love to something..."
Children can only grow from something you love to something you lose. Stephen Sondheim
Roxane: His face is like yours, burning with spirit and imagination. He is proud and noble and young and fearless and beautiful- Cyrano:(losing all his colour.) Beautiful! Roxane: Yes. What's wrong? Cyrano: With me? Nothing. It's only... only... (Displaying his bandaged hand, with a little smile.) This fatal wound. Edmond Rostand
Please forgive me, but I've never had to change my mind so often at such short notice in my whole life. It's quite breathtaking. You see, first I thought you wanted my body, then I thought you wanted my love, then my life even, happily-ever-after and all that sort of thing, and now it turns out it is merely my money. Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you.' ... For what?' ... For restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it. Elaine Dundy
On the village green, where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play simply for fun and exercise: but as soon as the question of prestige arises, as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts are aroused…Nations work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and seriously believe – at any rate for short periods – that running, jumping, and kicking a ball are tests of... George Orwell
I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself in your own scent. The issue is the same for all real poets. If you've been happy for too long, you become banal. By the same token, if you've been unhappy for a long time, you lose your poetic power...Happiness and poverty can only coexist for the briefest time. Afterword either happiness coarsens the poet or the poem is so true it destroys his happiness. Orhan Pamuk
Martina Navratilova quote: "Who ever said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,’..."
Who ever said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,’ probably lost. Martina Navratilova
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon! John F. Kennedy
Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear. Neil Gaiman
Paul Ricoeur quote: "I find myself only by losing myself."
I find myself only by losing myself. Paul Ricoeur
But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious. Dorothy L. Sayers
Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them , joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end. Paulo Coelho
The administration says the American people want tax cuts. Well, duh. The American people also want drive-through nickel beer night. The American people want to lose weight by eating ice cream. The American people love the Home Shopping Network because it's commercial-free. Will Durst
Ray Bradbury quote: "That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose,..."
That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want. Ray Bradbury
Colley Cibber quote: "The happy have whole days,and those they choose.The unhappy..."
The happy have whole days,and those they choose.The unhappy have but hours,and those they lose. Colley Cibber

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