#losers

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 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

Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners. ↗

— Joe Gibbs

#failures #ignored #losers #winners

The most impressive person I've ever met? Elaine Wynn is no slouch. She's a much better person than me. But I've got her. Finders keepers, losers weepers. And it's been forty-seven years. ↗

— Steve Wynn

#better #better person #elaine #ever #got

Secret kabals of vegetarians habitually gather under the sign to exchange contraband from beyond the Vegetable Barrier. In their pinpoint eyes dances their old dream: the Total Fast. One of them reports a new atrocity published without compassionate comment by the editors of Scientific American: "It has been established that, when pulled from the ground, a radish produces an electronic scream." Not even the triple bill for 65˘ will comfort them tonight. With a mad laugh born of despair, one of them throws himself on a hot-dog stand, disintegrating on the first chew into pathetic withdrawal symptoms. The rest watch him mournfully and then separate into the Montreal entertainment section. The news is more serious than any of them thought. One is ravished by a steak house with sidewalk ventilation. In a restaurant, one argues with the waiter that he ordered "tomato" but then in a suicide of gallantry he agrees to accept the spaghetti, meat sauce mistake. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#beauty

Song of myself With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons. Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. I beat and pound for the dead, I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them. Vivas to those who have fail'd! And to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea! And to those themselves who sank in the sea! And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes! And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known! ↗

— Walt Whitman

#music #winners-and-losers #equality

Our apartment is a hotel for losers. A pit stop before the next ride. ↗

— Ida Løkås

#losers #love #pit-stop #ride #love

We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#civilians #control #distort #feelings #hysteria

If we get it right, there need not be losers. ↗

— John Anderson

#losers #need #right