Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernst Mayr

The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started by a single pair or by a single fertilized female. These 'founders' of the population carried with them only a very small proportion of the variability of the parent population. This 'founder' principle sometimes explains even the uniformity of rather large populations, particularly if they are well isolated and near the borders of the range of the species.

Cassandra Clare

A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.

Cassandra Clare

Change is no loss, Will. Not always.

Caroline Knapp

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

Kim Edwards

I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story.

Mohamed El-Erian

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

Mindy Kaling

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

Fred Rogers

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

George H. W. Bush

Every loss of life is terrible.

Harold Brodkey

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

Greg Norman

It's not the victories that count to me. It's the quality of how you deliver your losses and the quality of how you deliver your victories.

Jim Butcher

Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year.... Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.

Jim Butcher

I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one.

Jean de la Bruyere

Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.

Jay-Z

Is to have had and lost/Better than not having at all?

Jay-Z

just when i thought i had everything, i lost it all

Jay Roach

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

Jay Griffiths

If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

Jay Griffiths

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

James Hillman

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it.

Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

I've had my share, less than so many though, but enough to feel empathy. It's tough and I see it so much on Earth, too much suffering. The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights.

Milton Berle

I never stole a joke in my life. I just find them before they're lost.

Milton Friedman

The history of mankind is the history of money losing value.

Mike Epps

We all take losses and it's about getting up and coming back.

Nancy Pearcey

The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny.

Kathy Freston

Here's the secret to weight loss: It's all about crowding out, not cutting out.

Julian Clary

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

Keith Urban

Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had.

Kirstie Alley

When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries.