#los

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#bothering #declaim #flame #lights #passions

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#cast #designs #light #man #moves

But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'. ↗

— Marat Safin

#behind #care #coming #everything #fault

Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people. ↗

— Marat Safin

#fault #his #i #i am #like

I don't care about losses anymore. ↗

— Marat Safin

#anymore #care #i #losses

I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win. ↗

— Marat Safin

#had #hated #i #losing #matter

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#art #believe #close #course #exactly

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#corner #far #find #forgotten #galaxies

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost. ↗

— Mort Sahl

#because #carter #jimmy #jimmy carter #lost

People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#american people #bringing #bumper #bumper sticker #case