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'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.


Alfred Lord Tennyson
Tags: Than Never Better
So far in my career, I've achieved what I've achieved because I've believed that I could do it. And I've never believed that anyone's better than me, because I think when you start doing that, you've already lost the fight.
Carmen Marton
Tags: You Me Think
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It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.


Laurence J. Peter
Tags: Than Better Loved
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Ignorance is never better than knowledge.


Enrico Fermi
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Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?


Lewis Carroll
Tags: You Than Never
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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.


Golda Meir
Tags: You Than Never
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I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.


Robin Yount
Tags: Than Never Better
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.


Gertrude Stein
Tags: War Always Never
American women mean a great deal to me. They're such lost souls, particularly the women of my generation. And women need so much help. They never have anyone to turn to. I help them understand how they can look better, how to do this, do that, get a job. And they're very trusting. Like little lost kids.
Eileen Ford
Tags: Great Women Me
Writers displace their anxiety on to the tools of the trade. It's better to say that you haven't got the right pencil than to say you can't write, or to blame your computer for losing your chapter than face up to your feeling that it's better lost.
Hilary Mantel
Tags: You Up Your
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My father would never have lost to Holmes.


Gerry Cooney
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I've never made a film that lost money.


Sylvester Stallone
Tags: Money Never Made
Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.
Jayson Blair
Tags: Had Even Better
Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
William Gurnall
Tags: Than Never Some
I'll never stop doing stand-up. There's nothing better than getting in front of 2,500 people and making an entire room laugh.
Sebastian Maniscalco
Tags: People Than Never
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Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.


Robert H. Schuller
Tags: You Always Never
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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.


Leigh Hunt
Tags: Who Never Way
One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.
Daniel Kahneman
Tags: Had Things Thing
I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.
Robert MacNeil
Tags: Think Really Than
In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
Alfred Whitney Griswold