Losing Everything Quotes (page 2)

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• mother
• my family
• distance

It’s the Poverty. I lack imagination you say No. I lack language. The language to clarify my resistance to the literate. Words are a war to me. They threaten my family. To gain the word to describe the loss I risk losing everything. I may create a monster the word’s length and body swelling up colorful and thrilling looming over my mother, characterized. Her voice in the distance unintelligible illiterate. These are the monster’s words. Cherrie Moraga

• understanding
• dream
• culture

I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world? Emile M. Cioran

• love
• world
• best

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

• feeling
• people
• saying

I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded? Sherman Alexie

• lies
• blames
• losing

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living. David Millar

• feeling
• real
• feels

I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver. Mark-Paul Gosselaar

• developed
• go
• you

Once you lose everything, what's the worst that's going to happen to you? You develop a self-assurance. Roberto Goizueta

• evening
• hard
• gentleman

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• may
• gain
• everything

To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Bernadette Devlin

• life
• justice
• freedom

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom. Bryant H. McGill

• everything
• gain
• losing

You must lose everything in order to gain anything. Brad Pitt

• thinking
• may
• statistic

I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be. Venus Williams

• fighting
• sometimes
• impossible

When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything. Ehud Olmert

• time
• angel
• wonder

There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything. Tom Hanks

• war
• gains
• having

The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them. Clara Zetkin