#lose

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#closed system #collapse #ecosystem #gas #our

I play a detective, very close to myself actually. ↗

— Jon Voight

#close #detective #i #myself #play

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#get #heart #intelligence #national #national security

You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer. ↗

— Sol Wachtler

#around #case #closer #each #fixed

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#concentrate #constantly #done #hand #i

It's hard to win when you always lose. ↗

— Tom Waits

#hard #lose #win #you

It is only fair to expect public employees like me and others in the public sector to pay something close to what our neighbors and our fellow citizens do in the private sector. ↗

— Scott Walker

#close #employees #expect #fair #fellow

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#gains #loses #misses #more #nonsense

I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#ever #genius #gets #hardly #i

The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding. ↗

— John Warnock

#avenues #contact #fact #fault #gain