"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."

Hughes, Charles Evans | Freedom | 3 bookmarks

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Compensation | 3 bookmarks

"Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing."

Symons, Red | Winners and Winning | 1 bookmarks

"Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques | Slavery | 4 bookmarks

"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."

Devlin, Bernadette | Sacrifice | 6 bookmarks

"As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it."

Havel, Vaclav | Reason | 1 bookmarks

"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."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor | Losers and Losing | 6 bookmarks

"Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing."

White, Elwyn Brooks | Television | 1 bookmarks

"If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay. "

Roosevelt, Theodore | Uncategorised | 2 bookmarks

"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."

Landor, Walter Savage | Goals | 2 bookmarks