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The world is a game of chess; the loser loses and the winner wins.
jamal al-din al-afghani— As quoted in Jam? al-D?n al-Afgh?ni: A Muslim intellectual (1984) by Anwar Moazzam, p. 3
Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.
dana gioia— "The Anonymity of the Regional Poet: Ted Kooser," from Can Poetry Matter? Essays on Poetry and American Culture (1992)
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.
alexis de tocqueville— Book Three, Chapter X
When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.
— Karl Jaspers (1933) 'Man in the Modern Age. p. 128
A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
Michel de Montaigne— Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Of Solitude.
We lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win.
— 1969 On the Vietnam War. In Foreign Affairs, Jan.
Recession is when your neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. SeeTruman 868:38.
— 1980 Election campaign speech, Jersey City,1 Sep.
Por las verdades se pierden los amigos, e per las non dezir se fazen desamigos. Telling the truth loses you friends; not telling it gains you enemies.
Juan Ruiz— c.1330 Libro de Buen Amor, stanza165.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
john ciardi— Saturday Review, Volume 49 (1966)
He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!
james freeman clarke— P. 563. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The friendship of high and sanctified spirits loses nothing by death but its alloy; failings disappear, and the virtues of those whose faces we shall behold no more appear greater and more sacred when beheld through the shades of the sepulchre.
robert hall— P. 254. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
[W]hen anti-Semitism is everywhere, it is nowhere. And when every anti-Zionist is an anti-Semite, we no longer know how to recognize the real thing--the concept of anti-Semitism loses its significance.
brian klug— "The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism". 'The Nation'. posted January 15, 2004 (February 2, 2004 issue). Retrieved on January 9, 2006.
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
harry s. truman— Quoted in The Observer 13 April 1958
Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel’s dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical impulse and loses its ancient task of pursuing the Socratic ideal of the wisdom of the examined life.
donald phillip verene— p. 191 (Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (1997))
[T]he men who are successful have become the most dependent on success to attract love. When this man loses his success, he often fears he will lose love.
warren farrell— p. 172. (Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex)
When you do what you love, the seemingly impossible becomes simply challenging, the laborious becomes purposeful resistance, the difficult loses its edge and is trampled by your progress.
steve maraboli— p. 78 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonial occasions, with a few startling exceptions resist alcohol, because if one drinks one loses one's orientation. Orientation is felt as a protection rather than as a strait jacket and its loss provokes extreme anxiety.
Margaret Mead— p. 11 (Balinese Character, 1942)
For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.
czesław miłosz— "A Legend" (1949), trans. Czes?aw Mi?osz and Robert Hass
As a fantasy writer, he was not highly regarded (“one cannot call him profoundly mediocre without venturing so far out on the critical limb as to bend it to the ground,” “so derivative that the reader loses track of who he’s ripping off,” “to say he is tin-eared would render a disservice to a blameless citizen of the periodic table of the elements”).
neal stephenson— Thanksgiving (prologue)
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
adlai stevenson— Statement quoted in news summaries (11 January 1954); as quoted in Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56 (1957) edited by James Beasley Simpson, p. 58.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true.
— William Shakespeare Hamlet (1600–1) Polonius, Act I, scene iii.
Shame hates to have words wrapped around it. If we talk about it, it loses its grip on us.
— University of Houston, Pride Stories
The wolf loses his teeth, but not his inclinations.
— As quoted in Henry G. Bohn, A polyglot of foreign proverbs, (1857)
Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry .
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 3, line 75.
Nihilists are not kind ; They believe in nothing . The Stranger is not kind, He drifts where the wind catches him. Nihilists are like a bellows Empty, yet full of hot air, The more they threaten, the more cowardly they seem; The Stranger also rambles and loses his train of thought But tells a purty good story.
— The Dude De Ching (2010) · A Dudeist Holy Book inspired by the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu and The Big Lebowski of Joel and Ethan Coen, Ch. 5 : Nihilists
I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, speech (1892) (Quotes)
We have met a man this time, who either does not know when he is whipped, or who cares not if he loses his whole army.
— Southern officer, reflecting on Grant, the new Northern commander (1864).
Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
— Polonius, scene iii
