Quotes 161 till 180 of 316.
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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.
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Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
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Now here I was, half Jane Wyman, half Shirley Temple, and people began to stop me in the street and say, 'Don't worry, Barbara, it's all right, you won't lose your job.' It was really very touching.
Source: Chris Chase, A Talk With the Unsinkable Barbara Walters, New York Magazine (March 25, 1974) -
Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.
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Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
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Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities . To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Source: Measure, for Measure I, 5 -
Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
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People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
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Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
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Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
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Pride takes such natural possession of us in the midst of our woes, errors, etc. We even lose our life with joy, provided people talk of it.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
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