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  • My father rules an entire planet.""He's losing it. -- Frank Herbert
  • I'm terrible with money, absolutely awful. I'm always losing it. -- Ronnie Wood
  • You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely -- Max Frisch
  • Never having something is different than having something and losing it. -- J. A. Konrath
  • The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it. -- Robert Heller
  • If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done. -- Ihara Saikaku
  • Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear. -- Laozi
  • Winning an argument is losing it as it makes the loser feel bad. -- Deepak Chopra
  • Temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it. -- Jack Nicklaus
  • There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it. -- Antoine Rivarol
  • Losing your honor in a person's eye is tantamount losing it for entire humanity. -- Anum Sattar
  • Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it. -- Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it. -- Confucius
  • People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else. -- Joss Whedon
  • In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul. -- Tariq Ramadan
  • The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it. -- Antoine Rivarol
  • it takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is -- Lana Del Rey
  • when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity. -- Mark Twain
  • I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for? -- Alanis Morissette
  • If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it- you don't want it bad enough. -- Tom Krause
  • If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it- you don't want it bad enough -- Tom Krause
  • To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life. -- Malcolm Forbes
  • If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it. -- Suzanne Collins
  • You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it. -- Adam Braun
  • Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else. -- Mitch Albom
  • In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square -- Philip Yancey
  • Roselyn lost her taste for bacon momentarily, which was as long as she was ever capable of losing it. -- Thomm Quackenbush
  • If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one. -- Chuck Klosterman
  • Everything around me inspires and influences me. Mainly love - falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it. -- Christina Perri
  • Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was. -- Julian Green
  • Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color -- Tablo
  • Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver. -- Stephen King
  • Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it. -- Carl Sandburg
  • I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human. -- John Trudell
  • Blessed is the woman who has never had anything to love. She can never know the heartbreak that comes with losing it. -- Kenn Bivins
  • When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it. -- George Will
  • Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it. -- Confucius
  • Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same. -- Haruki Murakami
  • The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre. -- Marina Abramovic
  • There are dedicated actors and there are people now who only stay famous for putting on weight, losing it, then putting it on again. -- Joe Dempsie
  • Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its special appeal. -- Noga Alon
  • A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father. -- Halldór Laxness
  • In order to love life, I must love living and live love like losing it would look like I have no life left to live. -- Mighty Mike McGee
  • The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao. -- Steve Forbes
  • I went through very emotional things this year, like being in the French Open finals already feeling like you got it and kind of losing it. -- Martina Hingis
  • Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it. -- Rachel Kushner
  • Most of us focus so much on 'capturing' the moment that we don't realize we keep losing it for the next which we will lose next:-) -- Prashant Chopra
  • The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention. -- Octavio Paz
  • There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it. -- Jean de la Bruyere
  • Take your energy - instead of losing it in all the little hassles and all the little battles you could have fought with opponents who didn't matter. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • I've spent my life defending the Net, and I do feel that if we don't fight online crime, we are running a risk of losing it all. -- Mikko Hypponen
  • When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it. -- Jessica Savitch
  • No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood. -- George Sand
  • When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic than the natural beauty. -- Marieta Maglas
  • When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud. -- Mario Andretti
  • Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway? -- Mother Teresa
  • I don't regret the decision to retire. My body was losing its edge. I was taking longer to recover from injuries. You have to get out at some point. -- David Beckham
  • Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it. -- Emilie Autumn
  • If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it. -- Amelie Nothomb
  • Challenging someone is good. You need to do it. Sometimes they don't even realize you're doing it, like when you joke with a goalie, 'What's wrong today? You losing it? -- Sidney Crosby
  • 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
  • I remember my mom saying that after you have a baby you get really thin. So you gain all that weight and then you just lose it and keep losing it. -- Arizona Muse
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  • Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve. -- Kij Johnson
  • My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it. -- Veronica Roth
  • If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it. -- James Forrestal
  • The reality is when you open a door, there is no sense in closing it - so I would never say, 'I'll never act again.' But it's definitely not my priority. -- Evangeline Lilly
  • There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room. -- Diana Krall
  • I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny. -- Ian Frazier
  • I listen to old Idaho, and there are moments of true inspiration there. I think the music is speaking on its own a little bit more. It's evolving, it's not losing its heart. -- Jeff Martin
  • That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly. -- Marcy Kaptur
  • Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit. -- Joseph Addison
  • I'm never going to be content with a comeback when you end up losing ... You can't just accept being in a game that's close and end up losing it. It's just not okay. -- Charlie Weis
  • The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it. -- Wilhelm Steinitz
  • As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade. -- Jo Ann Emerson
  • It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language. -- Romeo Santos
  • I refuse to put myself into a situation in which I have to face some kind of "I'm losing it" kind of thing. I'm not "losing it"; it's changed. What it is is changing. -- Bradford Cox
  • I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act. -- Hugh Jackman
  • The real problem is not increasing your energy. The problem is losing it. If you stop the loss and you simply meditate, you will have more than enough energy. You will learn to live strategically. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields. -- Don Tapscott
  • If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure. -- Martin Jacques
  • La Scala is easily one of the top 10 symbols of Italy's cultural excellence. That makes it vital to our global image. Closing it would send a message to the rest of the world that Italy doesn't care. -- Diego Della Valle
  • The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world. -- Lee H. Hamilton
  • But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies. -- J. B. Smoove
  • The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality. -- Hunter Tylo
  • When seasons change in our life, it's difficult. Because it feels like loss and no one likes loss. And I go through, how do you do that? How do you take that transition without losing it in the curve? -- Paula White
  • The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • I'm not talking about losing [agricultural] diversity in the same way that you lose your car keys. I'm talking about losing it in the same way that we lost the dinosaurs: actually losing it, never to be seen again. -- Cary Fowler
  • Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore! -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  • ... the whole sickening trickery in life -- the idea that one cannot fight for one's humanity without, ironically, losing it ... that trickery is the real enemy and the very essence of the thing we must continually be on our guard against. -- Vivian Gornick
  • If she is to love life and freedom and be brave then she must learn to let go. To see beauty without clinging to it, to feel pain without holding it hostage, and to feel love without worry of losing it. -- G.G. Renee Hill
  • Keeping the door that leads to your heart ajar is destructive as univited guests would move in and trample on your feelings, leaving you in great pains, but closing it always is a sure way to spot out the destructive and innovative guests. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
  • And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe. -- Clifford D. Simak
  • It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self? -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Football has to work really hard to put a smile on people's face and not to be so focused on the question of money. Everything is in danger of losing its soul if you're always going to sell out to the highest bidder. -- Gordon Taylor
  • . . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
  • You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its place as the par excellence of intellectual activity. Smart people in search of a challenging board game might try a game called Go. -- Hans Berliner
  • We continue to adhere to a common-sense view of risk - how much we can lose and the probability of losing it. While this perspective may seem over simplisticor even hopelessly outdated, we believe it provides a vital clarity about the true risks in investing. -- Seth Klarman
  • A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was losing its innocence. Andrea MacPherson writes beautifully, balancing the lives of her characters between history and the poetry of gesture, secrets and love. -- Ami McKay
  • The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. -- Samuel Johnson
  • When I got sober and started working out, I fell into that trap of working out too much. I know a lot of guys can relate to that - if you don't get that runner's high every day, you feel like, 'Oh my God, I'm losing it.' -- Joe Perry
  • Why are you afraid? This is where you get it out of your system: bankruptcy, unfulfilled potential, trashing your reputation, losing it all. And then (because we just can't stop there), you're going to apply some simple analysis to it.You may have nothing to fear after all. -- Danielle LaPorte
  • I know a lot of people love applications on their phone, but I'm like, 'Yeah, I understand the nice experience, but there's something about it that doesn't flow well.' Opening an app, closing it, moving to something else. There's something about the open web that's very free flowing. -- Ben Huh
  • Use it or lose it. -- Jimmy Connors
  • Win or lose, do it fairly. -- Knute Rockne
  • When anything goes, it's women who lose. -- Camille Paglia
  • If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling. -- Geezer Butler
  • When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul. -- Max Beerbohm
  • If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms. -- Ed Rendell
  • Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose. -- Lynn Davies
  • You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up. -- Don Rickles
  • A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family. -- Young Jeezy
  • It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. -- Mary Renault
  • It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. -- Harry S. Truman
  • If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly. -- Bernard Law Montgomery
  • The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. -- Henry A. Kissinger
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