Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Gillard

The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia... I always thought Malcolm would be around a lot longer. I must say, I wished he had been.

Judith Ellen Foster

The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?

We will be losing $1 million from the state of Texas,

Avery Johnson

This team doesn't like losing one in a row.

This was sweet revenge. I did not want to end my senior year losing to them.

LeBron James

This was a very important game. We didn't want to get a big win like we did Sunday (against Phoenix) and lose here.

This was a tough loss for us. It's very disappointing.

This was a real tough loss to swallow.

They will not walk out of the pharmacy without their prescription. The plan has been tailored so these people do not lose coverage.

They will make up at least 70 percent of those losses by the end of the first quarter next year, unless there is another strike.

They've lost their houses. They are very frustrated, and some of them are desperate, because they don't know what they're going back to,

They've lost a lot of power, because so many of their constituents are gone.

Jim Croce

I was searching all the time for something that I'd never lost or left behind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known.

Jessamyn West

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Jeremy Rifkin

A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times. The very idea that a human being's worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world where much of life is lived on the Collaborative Commons.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

John McLaughlin

Teachers love their students, to lose a student is really a tragic thing.

Duncan Fletcher

Sometimes these things happen. We have lost experienced players before and we just have to live with it.

Sometimes it just takes one to win or lose the game.

Seeing Paul go is a really tough loss for us. It's tough to take because of the person and teammate he has been.

Paul Hawken

Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.

Paul Hawken

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.

Pau Gasol

I take losses very personal and very serious.

Judd Gregg

If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.

Joseph Simmons

How do you recover from an extraordinary loss? Take stock of the loved ones around you. Hug them, love them, and cherish them. When you appreciate the joys in your life, it makes sorrow that much easier to swallow. Every day is a new day. Hope floats, so let it rise. God is love.

Joseph Stalin

You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

Leonardo DiCaprio

When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of a little biologist when I was younger. I watched documentaries on rainforest pollution and the loss of species and habitats for animals around the world. It affected me in a very hardcore, emotional way when I was younger. So, later in life I wanted to continue that path more and investigate and learn more about ecological issues.

Leonardo da Vinci

In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.

Leonardo da Vinci

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Paul Ricoeur

I find myself only by losing myself.

Patrick Rothfuss

I won the only duel I ever lost.