Quotes about loss
loss years rivers
Every year everything I have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side is salvation Mary Oliver
loss echoes identity
Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity. Mary Catherine Bateson
loss voice good-woman
How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses. Philip Massinger
loss hearing terrible
Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired. Pete Townshend
loss recipes unemployment
History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss. Pete Sessions
loss doubt pakistan
Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society. Pervez Musharraf
loss emotional television
Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over & over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else. Paulo Coelho
loss space trying
When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.
loss difficult-situations faces
When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.
loss happy-life views
When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of happier life for the second. Therefore, if killing the hemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view, be right to kill him. Peter Singer
loss understanding balance
Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets. Peter Lynch
loss
Lately we have had many losses. Quintilian
loss people financial
Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included. Pola Negri
loss gains use
Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies. Pol Pot
loss matter citizens
It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears. Plutarch
loss lost-friendship warning
The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans. Phyllis Schlafly
loss opportunity kind
You can see exile as loss, and then it will be a loss for you. You can treat it as opportunity and then all kinds of benefits accrue. Pico Iyer
loss reality thinking
Often when we think of exile we think of destruction or loss. But the Dalai Lama always says exile is reality, it's something we can make use of, and he has used it to get rid of everything that he thought was stifling and old, and to create a new, improved and much healthier Tibet.
loss police action
We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action. Mike Pence
loss passing-moments self
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.] Nathaniel Hawthorne
loss blood names
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 Thom Yorke
loss perspective pay
Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation. Ted Koppel
loss opportunity action
The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power. Ralph Waldo Emerson
loss men may
Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.
loss men long
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
loss talking sea
More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone. Paula McLain
loss losing difficult
When seasons change in our life, it's difficult. Because it feels like loss and no one likes loss. And I go through, how do you do that? How do you take that transition without losing it in the curve? Paula White
loss afterlife legs
The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg. Peter Stuyvesant
loss america complaining
You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline Phil Gramm
loss psychics lost-friendship
A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it. Phil Donahue
loss night important
Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away. Phyllis McGinley
loss subtraction accumulation
Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure. Julian Barnes
loss thinking long
Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.