#lose

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#ballad #career #close #duty #fade

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#difference #just #live #lose #war

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#closest #dying #eight #friends #getting

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes. ↗

— George MacDonald

#eyes #love #love is #opener #well

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#free #give #good #i #incentive

The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs. ↗

— Kyle MacLachlan

#about #been #closet #clothes #finally

I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#another #any #close #enough #flowers

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#bad #beautiful #elegant #glamour #like

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#ever #lose #man #over #public

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#had #packing #portable #rendering #talent