#lose

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#fail #founders #lose #our #primal

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#i #like #loner #lose #silence

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#brilliant #close #earth #here #horizon

For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

#had #i #joy #lose #me

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. ↗

— John Ashbery

#feel #going #head #i #i feel

They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise. ↗

— Arrian

#alexander #almost #any #close #cruise

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#healthy #his #how #illness #loves

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action. ↗

— George P. Baker

#always #any #great #however #loses

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#any #creation #dangerous #lose #man

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#bad #bad review #bleed #close #copiously