#loser

Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#losers #luck #poor #rich #winners

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers. ↗

— Neville Chamberlain

#itself #losers #may #side #victor

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom. ↗

— Montgomery Clift

#closer #come #death #more #negative

The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#competition #find #frustrated #get #losers

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#already #away #borders #closer #conquest

There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser. ↗

— Buenaventura Durruti

#class #combatants #fascists #freedom #know

Language is much closer to film than painting is. ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

#film #language #much #painting #than

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table. ↗

— Janet Flanner

#built #closer #come #crowds #dinner

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

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