Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Hadfield

Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.

Gertrude Stein

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

Fran Drescher

I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.

George Washington

There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money; for when money can be had in this way, repayment is seldom thought of in time, the interest becomes a loss, exertions to raise it by dent of industry cease, it comes easy and is spent freely, and many things (are) indulged in that would never be thought of if (they were) to be purchased by the sweat of the brow.

George Orwell

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.

John Milton

Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse

Norman Cousins

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Mitch Albom

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have

Mitch Albom

You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without.

Mitch Albom

Lost love is still love.

Mitch Albom

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all.

Mike Tyson

In the scheme of life, in emotion and loss, I responded the way I did. I lost. I shouldn't have responded that way. I've had some people tell me that I did a great thing - sticking up for myself - but to me, personally, with the way that I handled my emotions, I lost. But I learned. That will not happen again.

Mike Tyson

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. Life is totally about losing everything.

Miguel de Cervantes

There is no love lost between us.

Robert Higgs

Intervene globally, lose freedom locally.

Robert Hass

All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking

Edward Bennett Williams

In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

Eckhart Tolle

When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence of anyone who is suffering or dying is beyond death.

Eckhart Tolle

For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.

Eckhart Tolle

Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.

The market was tracking stocks overseas all day long. As soon as U.S. stocks reversed gains, our stocks also lost ground.

The match was not won and lost on one bout.

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.

Lenny Kravitz

God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.

Thom Yorke

The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing with the radio on his head, before he died of asphyxiation and blood loss. *Laughs* it was hilarious