Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack London

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour. Take that man I had aloft. He held on as if he were a precious thing, a treasure beyond diamonds of rubies. To you? No. To me? Not at all. To himself? Yes. But I do not accept his estimate. He sadly overrates himself. There is plenty more life demanding to be born. Had he fallen and dripped his brains upon the deck like honey from the comb, there would have been no loss to the world. The supply is too large.

Isabel Allende

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

Irving Kirsch

Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an illness at all. Often, it can be a normal reaction to abnormal situations. Poverty, unemployment, and the loss of loved ones can make people depressed, and these social and situational causes of depression cannot be changed by drugs.

Harrison Ford

The loss of anonymity is something that nobody can prepare you for. When it happened, I recognized that I'd lost one of the most valuable things in life. To this day, I'm not all that happy about it

Grace Slick

Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both.

This is a big loss for Bayern and for Germany.

Hemorrhoids can bleed, typically after a bowel movement, producing blood-streaked stool or toilet paper, .. The blood may turn water in the toilet bowl red. However, the amount of blood is usually small, and hemorrhoids rarely lead to severe blood loss or anemia.

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

This was a big loss for us and a real disappointing one. What it does is put a lot of pressure on the Saskatchewan series. A win tonight would've give us an edge.

Joe Torre

Tonight was very important, after the loss yesterday (6-5 to Toronto), to get the momentum back.

Antonio Guterres

There is no justification for such violence and loss of life.

The score doesn't matter. A loss is a loss. It's not how your start, it's how you finish. We'll keep working and we'll keep improving.

It was the worst loss I ever took.

It was very important. We're tied for second on the loss side.

It was welcome back, here's a loss for you. But it was nice.

The thing that would make the most sense is a two-day loss of salary for every one day they strike.

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.

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?

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

This was a real tough loss to swallow.

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

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.

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

Brian Billick

Nothing rocks a team more than the loss of a starting quarterback.

It's quite a loss with him gone. I didn't meet a person who didn't like him.

It's tough to take a loss like that. Physically, it seemed like they outmatched us.

It's tough to take a loss like that, ... Physically, it seemed like they outmatched us.

It was a very important win. After (Thursday's) loss we were kind of down all night. Nobody was talking.

It was a real tough loss to swallow, but you can't put it on one guy. We had a lot of penalties and mistakes.

It's a disappointing loss because I thought we could take these guys. It was a frustrating game.