Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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• No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House
  • Health
  • Lose

• Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Money
  • Lose
  • Never Forget

• We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Lose
  • Two
  • Three

• In life, sometimes you just lose.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Sometimes
  • Lose

• It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Important
  • Want
  • Lose

• You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • You
  • Never
  • Lose

• You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Important
  • Real
  • Game

• No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Man
  • Sleep
  • Lose

• If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Enjoy
  • Lose
  • Victories

• If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • May
  • Think
  • Lose

• I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Pretty
  • Myself
  • Feel

• While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • May
  • Hope

• You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

  

  Sally Field
  • Present
  • Lose
  • Behavior

• I can have three touchdowns and 200 yards, but if we lose the game, what's it all for?

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Game
  • Lose
  • Three

• Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

  

  Karl Marx
  • World
  • You
  • Lose

• America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Lose

• I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Never
  • Lose
  • Clothes

• You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Lose

• If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Never
  • Lose
  • Have

• Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Fun
  • Write
  • Lose

• When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Kind
  • Feel
  • Doing

• We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty, Pleasure then our only duty. Floating them twixt heaven and Earth And drank on plenties blessed mirth We thought ourselves eternal then, Our glory sealed by God’s own pen. But paradise, we found is always frail, Against man’s fear will always fail.

  

  Veronica Franco
  • City
  • Youth
  • Paradise

• We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Lose
  • Don't Ask
  • Eternal Beings