Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucian Freud

Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.

Lord Byron

A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.

Lord Chesterfield

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable.

Malcolm Gladwell

Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.

Gavin Newsom

City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur

Gabrielle Zevin

It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

Gail Carriger

[She] lost her patience, a thing she was all too prone to misplacing.

Joseph O'Neill

I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.

Justin Halpern

I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win.

Julianna Baggott

No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.

Josh Billings

People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.

Karl Jaspers

There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.

Karl Kraus

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

Karl Kraus

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Ouida

The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.

Kami Garcia

There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt—it meant something.

Kanye West

I completely lost everything, but I gained everything because I lost the fear.

Paul Krugman

[I]f one asks what substantive contributions [F. A. Hayek] made to our understanding of how the world works, one is left at something of a loss. Were it not for his politics, he would be virtually forgotten.

Maggie Stiefvater

Aren't you afraid?' 'Of what?' 'Of losing yourself.' 'That's what I'm hoping for.

Madeleine Albright

In diplomacy, clear-cut wins and losses are rare.

Mackenzie Phillips

I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.

Haruki Murakami

We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.

Haruki Murakami

What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back.

Haruki Murakami

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

John Dryden

Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.

Matt Stajan

You can say we played better, but when you still lose it is not fun. We can't get down on ourselves. We have to turn this thing around.

May Sarton

We only keep what we lose.

Marilynne Robinson

This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is ... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.

I'm not sure how we won this one. Better to win ugly than lose pretty, I guess.

Christina Aguilera

I'm getting a trainer. But not to lose anything, because I like being a little thicker!

I'm embarrassed. I'm embarrassed to go into a bar. The people would say, 'They lost 18 in a row. They really stink this year.

Kim Campbell

For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

Kathleen Norris

If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.