Quotes about loss
loss rivers water
To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the damming happens without good reason . . . then it's a tragedy of diminishment for the whole planet, a loss of one more wild thing, leaving Earth just a little flatter and tamer and simpler and uglier than before. David Quammen
loss worst greatest-gifts
The worst loss you've ever experienced is the greatest gift you can have. Byron Katie
loss earthquakes mind
A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to call 'bad.' Life will bring us everything we need, to show us what we haven't undone yet. Nothing outside ourselves can make us suffer. Except for our unquestioned thoughts, every place is paradise.
loss dark soul
Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul Catherine Fisher
loss agriculture diversity
Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to imagine. To simplify the environment as we have done with agriculture is to destroy the complex interrelationships that hold the natural world together. Reducing the diversity of life, we narrow our options for the future and render our own survival more precarious. Cary Fowler
loss skins scratches
What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt. Camille Paglia
loss unnecessary enough
I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything. Chester W. Nimitz
loss terror-attacks pay
With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules — we're all working harder and longer than we used to. Chesley Sullenberger
loss people break
When you're young, the loss that you experience when you break up with somebody, that's the loss of a relationship. And the older you get, you actually lose people to death and you lose those relationships, too. Cheryl Hines
loss dust vampire
I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned into dust, and vampires flaked away. Demons had to be burned. Humans were very troublesome. Charlaine Harris
loss stories way
There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another. Charlie Kaufman
loss player thinking
And your brain doesn't naturally know how to think the way Zeckhauser knows how to play bridge. "for example," people do not react symmetrically to loss and gain. Well maybe a great bridge player like Zeckhauser does, but that's a trained response. Ordinary people, subconsciously affected by their inborn tendencies... Charlie Munger
loss years nuts
Using [a stock's] volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return. Some great businesses have very volatile returns - for example, See's [a candy company owned by Berkshire] usually loses money in two quarters of each year - and some terrible businesses can have steady results.
loss nuts risk
Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return.
loss second-chance firsts
The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance.
loss america world
The main international problem facing America is our lack of - our loss of influence in the world and our lack of an ability to define what U.S. interests really are. Bob Barr
loss people world
And I thought my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic. Birch Bayh
loss respect treat water
We respect the water, and use the water. We don't just let it go down the drain. We treat this water like gold. The only water loss is evaporation.
loss gains accepting
Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you. Benjamin Hoff
loss praying three
We are all saddened by the loss of Martin... and we are praying for the three children.
loss actors audience
For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. Charlton Heston
loss past years
Churches are more prosperous than at any time within the past several hundred years. But the alarming thing is that our gains are mostly external and our losses wholly internal; and since it is the quality of our religion that is affected by internal conditions, it may be that our supposed gains are but losses spread over a wider field. Aiden Wilson Tozer
loss species
We're experiencing species loss at 1 every 15 minutes, and that's a conservative estimate.
loss venice sick
They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. William Shakespeare
loss may hearing
Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
loss people income
There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled Beryl Bainbridge
loss men yield
Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share. Bernard Baruch
loss men trying
Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers. Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters - or anyone - bringing gifts of 'inside' information or tips. Don't try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.
loss worst best-things
It's deeply human to do both the worst things and the best things because of your fear of loss. Cass Sunstein
loss dark years
I do not tolerate a world emptied of you. I have tried. For a year I have called every black tree Marya Morevna; I have looked for your face in the patterns of the ice. In the dark, I have pored over the loss of you like pale gold. Catherynne M. Valente
loss men emotional
There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single instinctive drive or emotional image can carry him into a one-sidedness that makes him lose his balance...his one-sidedness and consequent loss of balance are much dreaded by primitives, who call it 'loss of soul.' Another threat...circles around particular complexes Carl Jung
loss hands earth
And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.
loss imagination feelings
What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning.