Famous Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause -- the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return, the unquestioning willingness to lose everything, even if that loss is as something as precious as life itself.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

George Reisman

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

George Orwell

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.

George Orwell

There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa . Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.

George R. R. Martin

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

George Carlin

Sudden total weight loss.

Garth Nix

I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

George F. Kennan

The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs.

Fernando Pessoa

I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.

Felicity Huffman

On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.

Farrah Fawcett

There are no words to express how sad and devastated I am. I have lost one of my dearest friends, and the industry has lost a giant.

Ezra Miller

I'm super-popular, so I had to pretend to be a loser, which was super-hard.

Francis of Assisi

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.

Francis Bacon

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Francis Bacon

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

Rachelle Lefevre

I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.

I wanted to come here to be Olympic champion, but today I lost one of my opportunities.

Sometimes you play really well and lose anyway, so I am never upset about that.

Somewhere, we lost that tradition and we're trying to get it back.

I wanted this one really bad. I can't even remember how many we lost in a row.

Alex Rodriguez

I've got to take a long look in the mirror because I didn't do my part. I mean, you win and lose as a team, but I didn't show up.

Mike Birbiglia

I've found, being in Los Angeles, it's like living in a live-action Planet Hollywood.

Lamar Odom

I'm kind of lost for words. It was a pleasure just to watch him out here.

I'm lost for words. I never thought it was that bad. It ought to be mandatory for every American to see it.

I'm lost for words. I have no idea what's really going on with this team right now. It's kind of tough. I really don't know what to say to these guys. I don't know. It just hurts.

I'm just a tough old mule, I guess. And I don't want to lose this job.

Alex Wright

I missed Lost - when and where can I see it repeated?

Erma Bombeck

One meal a day is enough for a lion and would be for all of us if all we did all day was swat flies.

Erma Bombeck

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

Erin O'Connor

I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.