Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gretel Ehrlich

Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

Groucho Marx

The foods that are recommended today are as palatable as a steady diet of wet blotters.

Graham Chapman

We come from nothing, we are going back to nothing-In the end what have we lost? Nothing!

Graham Greene

And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.

Gisele Bundchen

One thing leads to the other. Deforestation leads to climate change, which leads to ecosystem losses, which negatively impacts our livelihoods - it's a vicious cycle.

Gerald Celente

If you don’t prepare, you could lose everything. If you prepare for the worst and nothing happens, you’ve lost nothing.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God's earth is left more utterly unprotected and desolate than the slave in these circumstances.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.

Gregory Benford

Disintegration of structure equals information loss.

Gregory Maguire

Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.

Horace Bushnell

Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.

Hugh Prather

Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

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 In this he became a master when he discovered that the transmissibility of the past had been replaced by the citability and that in place of its authority there had arisen a strange power to settle down, piecemeal, in the present and to deprive it of ‘peace of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.

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.

Erica Jong

If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.

Erica Jong

Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

Eric Cantor

Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

Eric Clapton

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

Frank R. Wolf

We're not losing the peace.

Christopher Alexander

We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial.

Christine Feehan

Maybe you are already lost and just do not know it.

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

Chris Powell

Little changes over time are the secret to long term weight loss success!

Chris Kraus

No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming someone else or worse: becoming nothing but the vibratory field between two people.

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.