Ken Follett Quotes

When you got nothin' / You got nothin' to lose.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

It is possible to have second chances. When I thought everything was lost, when I reached bottom and things didn't go my way, the universe gave me a second chance.

Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.

The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.

How can you beat someone that's already lost everything?

There is one good thing about reaching the bottom. When you get there, there's nothing left to do but fight your way back up or die.

It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.

Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

You don't have to fight for your life anymore. You're starting a new one.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

Take my horse to the old town road and ride till I can't no more' basically means just running away, and everything is just gone. The horse is metaphorical for not having anything or just the little things that you do have, and it's with you.

When I was around 25 years old, I lost everything and was a complete dirtbag.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less.

You have nothing to lose. You had nothing to begin with.

I wouldn't know what to do with another chance if you gave it to me.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.

We only know how to lose and be lost.

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.