Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michal Handzus

It's only one game. You don't win or lose a series on one game. We have to take that approach. Now you have to go out and show it. Go out and play like nothing happened.

It's not three losses in a row. It's 15 in a row. It is painful. It is ugly. It hurts. It is tough on everybody.

Ed Gillespie

It's not the kind of thing we'll make money on -- I'm trying not to lose money on it, ... I want to publicize Reagan's record.

John Jay

It's obvious that Lamar was our most valuable player. At Oregon State University at this particular time, if you lose your most valuable player it's hard.

It?s the next game. This time of the year hot, not hot, winning streak, losing streak?it makes no difference. These are big games.

It's the million-dollar question: What will be the resources to keep them affordable? We really can't lose this kind of stock right now if you look at what's going on.

It's like Duke-Carolina ? you don't want to lose to your rival.

It just comes down to being able to do the little things right like playing defense. Once you start losing it just all seems to pile up when you have such a young team.

It's a loss for the voters of Florida.

Madeleine L'Engle

For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators.

Madeleine L'Engle

... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

Lynndie England

I've heard attacks were made on coalition forces because of those. I apologize to the families of those who lost loved ones or were injured because of the photos.

Lucy Powell

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.

Lou Gerstner

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

John Foxe

The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties.

John F. Kennedy

Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.

Jonathan Franzen

The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it, I was checking my e-mail every ten minutes, and my plugs of tobacco were getting ever larger, and my two drinks a night had worsened to four, and I'd achieved such deep mastery of computer solitaire that my goal was no longer to win a game but to win two or more games in a row--a kind of meta-solitaire whose fascination consisted not in playing the cards but in surfing the streaks of wins and losses.

Jonathan Carroll

Yo can always take back the lost parts of yourself if you can find and recognize them.

Jonathan Bennett

The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a long time.

Jonah Lehrer

How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his or her own mind, a talent psychologists call metacognition. We know when we are angry; every emotional state comes with self-awareness attached, so that an individual can try to figure out why he's feeling what he's feeling. If the particular feeling makes no sense—if the amygdala is simply responding to a loss frame, for example—then it can be discounted. The prefrontal cortex can deliberately choose to ignore the emotional brain.

Jon Stewart

Nazi Germany was so destructive to Judaism not only for the loss of life, but because many who survived began to see the practice of Judaism as somewhat of a health hazard.

Joyce Carol Oates

I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.

Paramahansa Yogananda

What you lose in the world will not be a loss to your soul.

Ovid

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

Peter Garrett

This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.

Pauline Kael

If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn't have any feeling of loss. And that goes for Rottweilers, too.

Paul Valery

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Paul Virilio

While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary, become even faster.

Paul Tudor Jones

You learn more from your losses, than from your gains.

Meher Baba

Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you're looking for something you've never lost.

I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.

Mary Pickford

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.