Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Pauly

An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Secrecy is for losers.

Dan Lipinski

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

David Stern

I would say the league is viable as long as you have owners who want to continue funding losses. But it's not on the long term a sustainable business model that we're happy to be supporting. It needs to be reset.

David Simon

African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll.

David Perlmutter

Eat your vegetables. Brush your teeth. Sweat once in a while. Get plenty of rest. Don't smoke. Laugh more. There are certain tenets to health that are pretty commonsensical and that we all know we should practice routinely.

David Hare

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

Corey Haim

I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.

Confucius

Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.

Confucius

Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.

Confucius

Learning without thought is labour lost.

Dane Cook

Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

Cybill Shepherd

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

Cybill Shepherd

I'm not lost,I'm just in between places I recognize.

Darren Johnson

Do not lose hope in what the universe has placed you here to do.

Darren Johnson

If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence.

Dave Eggers

We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.

David Levithan

Maybe relationships could have fractals, too. And maybe the sense of loss was when you're becoming a fractal of what you once were to each other.

David Letterman

It's two days until tax time. I know it's late, but there is still time to deduct this show as a loss.

David Gemmell

The point is [...] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen.

David Einhorn

The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.

David Baldacci

Anyone who's lived has lost somebody.

Delmon Young

I've never been one to look at numbers or think about stuff like that. The only numbers I worry about are wins and losses-that's always been my biggest priority.

Debbie Macomber

Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

Andre Agassi

Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.

Andre Agassi

I can live with losing, I can't live without taking my chance.

Anderson Cooper

I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.

Amartya Sen

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

Anna Quindlen

Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn't. Only it costs a whole lot more.

Anna Quindlen

Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.

Chuck Palahniuk

Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.

Amy Tan

I did not lose myself all at once.