Kelela

Often, I write to feel better and to heal - to cope with things that I'm dealing with. I'm either writing to get out of a feeling or to get into the feeling, to feel it more. Usually it's the perfect remedy, but if it isn't, I focus on other parts of what I'm making that don't involve writing. If neither are working, I simply forfeit the day.

American Musician

Bret Hart

All the times they put tag titles on me, Intercontinental titles on me, or the world title on me, the only time I couldn't defend the title was when I had to forfeit the belt when I quit WCW and retired from wrestling forever.

Canadian Wrestler

Michael Gove

Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.

British Politician

Sue Monk Kidd

Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in my soul. I forfeited my ability to listen creatively to my deepest self, to my own God within.

American Writer

Valerie Harper

Every five minutes, every hour, every day, every year that you waste worrying about your cancer - you have forfeited time that you could have been alive having fun.

American Actress

Richard Perle

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

American Public Servant

Abraham Lincoln

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

American President

Arthur Schopenhauer

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

German Philosopher

Phaedrus

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

Roman Poet

Camille Perri

We're forfeiting our power if we succumb to apathy.

American Author

Using 'forfeit' implies a wrongdoing, emphasizing a loss due to one's action.

Negative Connotation

'Forfeit' often suggests losing something without a choice, typically unwanted.

Involuntary Aspect

Highlighting 'forfeit' stresses the consequence more than the act leading to it.

Consequence Focus

'Forfeit' as a noun points out a penalty or punishment received.

Penalty Emphasis

A forfeit often comes from a failure to meet standards or fulfill obligations.

Result of Failure

Accepting a 'forfeit' means one acknowledges the loss or penalty as binding.

Binding Decision

This use of 'forfeit' involves a conscious decision to give up something valuable.

Voluntary Surrender

'Forfeit' can apply to missing out on opportunities due to certain decisions.

Opportunity Cost

A decision to 'forfeit' can carry long-term consequences or regret.

Future Implications

 Thanks to the universal penetration of running water and electricity in the developed world and the widespread adoption of washing machines, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, dishwashers, stoves and microwaves, the amount of our lives that we forfeit to housework has fallen from 60 hours a week

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 The rules of magic duels are strict, and anyone who casts out of order immediately forfeits the duel. Also, to prevent draws, the rules stipulate that if everyone’s still standing at the end of the first round,

Forfeit

Negative Connotation

Involuntary Aspect

Consequence Focus

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