Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

Ninon de l'Enclos

Tags: men woman lose conquest awkward

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Because," he said in an even voice, "you're used to winning, so you don't even think about how, every time there's a game, both sides get that 'rah, rah, team' speech from their coaches both sides hear 'you're the best!' 'You've got to win!' 'You're the greatest!' But half of the people playing that game are going to walk away losers. Half!

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Tags: team lose loser teams win winner

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Kyoya: Some say I only became more calculating but I don't care... because you lose out if you don't have fun, right?

Bisco Hatori

Tags: fun lose win ouran kyoya calculating

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Loosers want it but only through the easy way. If action taking were like reading a story book, loosers would only love to open the picture pages

Israelmore Ayivor

Tags: reading passion easy loss read book laziness action failure food-for-thought hard-work lose pages act picture lazy page win cheap winner looser do-it work-hard take-action winners extra-mile israelmore-ayivor easy-way loose picture-pages story-book

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How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Tags: lose

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If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!

Israelmore Ayivor

Tags: truth honesty lost identity integrity liar lie security fame sense pride modesty food-for-thought sensitivity decency lose honour weather priority dignity obey truthful insecurity sensitive kinds modest insecure secure decent directive israelmore-ayivor kinds-of tell-the-truth diretion don-t-lie don-t-tell-lies

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Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.

Simona Panova

Tags: fear strength love man woman romantic strong romance loss victory dark relationships fiction horror failure mystery obsession praise girl boy gothic relationship fail afraid mysterious lose loving myself accomplish fears female appreciate win scary scared male loved oneself obsessed gothic-romance goth young-adult-romance horrified obsessive compulsive young-adult-gothic-romance

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And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself.
But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed roles...

Simona Panova

Tags: reality romantic lost identity romance be-yourself secret try yourself mystery play trying suspense obsession lonely hidden perfect perfection gothic young-adult pretend postmodern mysterious masks lose mask postmodernism real myself hide pretending secretive roles who-you-are gothic-romance realize goth freya strive role masked young-adult-suspense cardew obsessive young-adult-gothic-romance who-i-am

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