Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hannah Arendt

Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had to discover new ways of dealing with the past. In this he became a master when he discovered that the transmissibility of the past had been replaced by the citability and that in place of its authority there had arisen a strange power to settle down, piecemeal, in the present and to deprive it of ‘peace of mind,’ the mindless peace of complacency.

Hannah Arendt

If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend the life-span of mortal men…. There is perhaps no clearer testimony to the loss of the public realm in the modern age than the almost complete loss of authentic concern with immortality, a loss somewhat overshadowed by the simultaneous loss of the metaphysical concern with eternity.

Guy deBord

The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative.

Guy Finley

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.

Dick Bennett

He totally lost his composure. He totally played into their hands. He had been playing so well.

He told me that he lost it but that he didn't snap.

Benjamin Franklin

He that sells upon trust, loses many friends, and always wants money

He's lost his two children. He lost his oldest daughter. He lost his wife.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

Gary Larson

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

Franz Kafka

I am free and that is why I am lost.

Mary Gordon

Everything that turned out well for me seems like a fluke. I feel like, at any moment, I could lose everything and be working at Dunkin' Donuts.

Even though we lost two games, it's a long season. We can get better.

Even though we lost today, we're going into the tournament with confidence. Next week starts a whole new season for these girls.

Even though we lost everything else, we still have our voices.

Stephen Ames

Even Tiger can have an off-day and lose like he's done in the past.

Even if you just lose one pound a week, in six months that's about 26 pounds.

Kathy Baker

Everybody's touched by this, everybody's hurt. We lost a child.

Everyone was zero and zero (going into the tournament) and that losing streak was out of our minds.

Tim Finchem

Every other sport has their channel, ... That's not lost on us.

Every little thing you can do wrong, we did it. That's how you lose games.

Bobby Jindal

Every day we don't get something like this in place, that's another day of lost opportunity. I don't think we can do this soon enough.

The most important thing is wrestling teaches him how to win and lose well. Everything you do in wrestling is all on the individual.

Randy Newman

Some people got lost in the flood, some people got away alright. ... Louisiana 1927

Tim Russert

Somebody wants to nitpick a man's tragic loss of a mother ... are you kidding?

Some people, if you go with the setbacks, could lose 30 to 40 percent of their property.

Some people thought we'd be swallowed up and lose our identity.

Stephen Harper

Sovereignty is something, you use it or you lose it.

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Once we went up, they lost a little bit. We played pretty well.

Aaron Woods

Once we lost our steam supply, we were unable to recover and prevent the event that occurred on Wednesday, March 1.

Carlos Delgado

The moment you start thinking it?s going to take a year, you?re wasting your time. I?m just going to go out and play. It?s going to be a transition, but I?m not going to walk in and say it?s going to take me a year because I?m losing a year; I?m wasting a year.

The moment I opened the door, he lost it.