It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.
Hubert H. Humphrey

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Paulo Coelho

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.
Neale Donald Walsch

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
Mao Tse-Tung

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
Robin Williams

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
Elie Wiesel

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.
Paula Abdul

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Francis Bacon

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
Adam Sandler

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
Rose Kennedy

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.
Germaine Greer

I know it's not a one man team win or lose.
Brett Favre

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.
Brett Favre

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander Pope

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
Clarence Darrow