It’s sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his weapons, catapult and peashooter, will no longer pick on Walter the Softy, and his ferocious grimace is to be replaced by a charming, boyish smile.
Losing a parent is always a terrible thing for anybody. It’s no more or no less for me.
Individual investors beware: If you’re constantly worried about a crash, you’re probably making some big mistakes – and losing a lot of money in the process.
Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
I think carpet bombing is an absolutely tremendous idea if the enemy accommodates you by laying himself out like a carpet in the middle of the desert without any civilians or infrastructure around him. Sadly, the Islamic State has learned that that is a losing proposition and does not accommodate us in that way.
One of the biggest gaps in sports is the difference between the winning and losing teams of the Super Bowl. They don’t invite the losing team to the White House. They don’t have parades for them. They don’t throw confetti on them.
You can live your life being scared of losing someone, and at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he’ll leave you, and that’s it.
You always feel for your fellow players when they are going through tough times, losing and things like that.
Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It’s not just losing them. It’s losing the possibility of family.
And I came close to losing a part of my foot on two occasions. I hope I’m consistently lucky and that the next time I develop a blister or step on something sharp, that I don’t go as far as I did on those two times.
It doesn’t matter if you’re winning or losing. You’ve got to be the same guy; you’ve got to prepare the same.
Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.
I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.
I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.
People often think that losing your job is one of the worst things that can happen to someone. And, in some cases, that might be true. But for me, unemployment can be the time and the motivation to finally go after my goals.
I never think about losing.
If vampires and werewolves were walking around today, there would be chaos. People would be losing their minds.
Elon Musk is worried about AI apocalypse, but I am worried about people losing their jobs. The society will have to adapt to a situation where people learn throughout their lives depending on the skills needed in the marketplace.
I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you miss them – the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible.
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Winning and losing, that’s never been my objective. It’s my hope that in the fullness of time, the majority of the court will come to see things as I do.
I think the idea of losing your hair is still very potent, emotional thing.
Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.
It’s difficult losing, but it’s even more difficult when you didn’t make a shot. I could see the ball just didn’t go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you’re just not making them, it’s frustrating.
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
Every time you lose an animal, it’s like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?
It’s difficult to know when to set boundaries around your health at work because the decline is so gradual. Allowing stress to build up, losing sleep, and sitting all day without exercising all add up.
The main fear about growing old as an actor is not losing the looks. I never had any to speak of, and what I had I’ve still got, but losing the memory is another matter.
Weight was the thing I hyperfocused on. It went from me losing a few pounds to slowly over time losing more and more weight and becoming more and more focused on it.
I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He’s always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.
Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.
I wouldn’t accept losing as a team, wouldn’t accept losing as my team. It’s like a war every practice. I think it helped us a lot.
Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it’s in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.
Logan was talking about the Civil War, which claimed the lives of more than 500,000 Americans. He wanted to provide Civil War veterans with a day to pay respects to their fellow soldiers who did not live to see the end of the war, without losing a day’s pay.
The ability to change one’s views without losing one’s seat is the mark of a great politician.
Seagulls are a landfill nuisance because they fly away with food scraps and, as is their reputation, fight each other over them midflight, often losing them, and soon a lady has a half-eaten hamburger splashing into her backyard pool.
The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America’s most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovation and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information.
Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don’t know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.
There’s nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.
The BBC is the greatest broadcaster in the world. It’s the standard that everyone measures themselves against. If we lose the BBC, it won’t be quite as bad as losing the royal family, but an integral part of this country will have gone. But then, I’m an old guy.
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
Losers are people who are afraid of losing.
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
I’m allergic to losing.
It’s not winning or losing. It’s the friends and the people that you meet along the way.
The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row.
I hate losing. I hate getting beat. I’m not used to it.
I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.
I don’t want technology to take me so far that I don’t have to use my brain anymore. It’s like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It’s always got to be tactile, still organic.
If a club is winning, you never pay attention to a guy who’s 0-for-10. If a club is losing, all of a sudden you’ll find that he’s the main reason why you’re losing, which is absurd for me.
Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.
You don’t need to stick to tough rules or overnight changes; you need not rely on hardcore discipline that makes you hate your life. You need only focus on progress, not perfection. Lean in to the process of losing weight, and it will happen easily.
As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.
