#lose

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist. ↗

— E. Franklin Frazier

#ballot box #box #closer #got #like

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within. ↗

— Caspar David Friedrich

#bodily #bring #close #darkness #effect

Shortly afterwards my father told me that he might be going into the Eastern Zone of Germany. At that time my own mind was closer to his than it had ever been before, because he also believed that they are at least trying to build a new world. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#also #because #been #before #believed

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#disclose #enemy #friend #keep #something

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose. ↗

— Dan Gable

#fear #getting #had #high #high school

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#close #completely #except #haven #i

What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#bonds #close #family #fight #form

When I wrote those two songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom. ↗

— Don Gibson

#been #bottom #closer #i #songs

Once you lose everything, what's the worst that's going to happen to you? You develop a self-assurance. ↗

— Roberto Goizueta

#everything #going #happen #lose #once

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#die #drop #fall #how #jar