Susan Elizabeth Phillips Quotes

Don't dare a person who has nothing else left to lose.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

People are dangerous when they have nothing to lose.

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.

Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.

The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.

He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.

I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm talking about life. In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.

You want to fall, that's all. You think it can't go on like that. It's as if your life is a perch on the edge of a cliff and going forward seems impossible, not for a lack of will, but a lack of space. The possibility of another day stands in defiance of the laws of physics. And you can't go back. So you want to fall, let go, give up, but you can't. And every breath you take reminds you of that fact. So it goes.

I've done everything but tap dance across the table.

Della was my go all in. She was my winning hand. You can't play when you go all in and lose. I'm out." "No, you're not. This hand ain't over yet," Rush said.

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

Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won't let go of the shovel, and he cannot dig out of the hole.

Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

Lean against the edge, sweetheart. I'm falling off."--Brent Greene

For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.

The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.

I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the fact that you are willing to risk something means that you are going to get a lot more out of it.