Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary-Louise Parker

I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.

John Green

I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him—that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter.

John Green

But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?

John Green

That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.

Patti Smith

I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.

Patti Smith

I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.

Patanjali

The longest journey begins with a single step.

P. D. James

The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.

P. J. O'Rourke

The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

Ovid

Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once.

Paul Newman

We've polluted the stratosphere with these chlorine and bromine compounds, and because it's now colder, and because we have this change in the climate, we're getting more ozone loss than we would have gotten in a normal year.

Paul Bremer

The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.

Paul Bettany

I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life.

Marya Mannes

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

Marshall McLuhan

Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.

Marshall McLuhan

[On Jimmy Carter] "Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he puts nostalgia in its place.

Marshall McLuhan

When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.

Mark Helprin

Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.

Mark Haddon

... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.

Marion Ross

The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.

Marion Ross

Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.

Marion Ross

Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.

Maria Callas

First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I've lost Onassis.

Oswald Chambers

God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy.

Michel de Montaigne

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

Michel de Montaigne

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

Michael Schumacher

Losing composure is pointless.

Marianne Williamson

I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.

Marilyn Manson

If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.

Marilyn Manson

If you lose who you are, what do you have?

Christina Milian

The sun won't shine since you went away, seems like the rain's falling every day. There's just one heart, where there once was two; that's the way it's gotta be until I get over you.

Chris Scelfo

Wins and losses right now are important, but in reality it's the least of my concerns. My concern is to make sure than we give hope to anyone watching us. I am not going to judge this season on wins and losses.

Chris Hadfield

Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.