#losing

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#ago #believing #better #both #comes

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult. ↗

— Keith Henson

#anything #bank #behaviour #both #children

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#celery #dark #i #like #losing

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#carry #child #enthusiasm #genius #into

So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#foreign #foreign oil #fuel-efficient #global #global warming

Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words. ↗

— Craig Armstrong

#closing #final #know #them #thoughts

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#desire #despair #fear #fierce #had

After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#calories #comes #down #formula #gaining

I don't like losing anyways. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#i #like #losing

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic. ↗

— David Bowie

#drag #i #last #lyric #out