Quotes about loss
loss people oscars
I'm prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar! I hope it has inspired people. Jennifer Hudson
loss fighting winning
I am sure that if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror or a corpse, he is sure to win. There is no doubt of that. Defeat is not due to losses but to the destruction of the Soul of the leaders-the 'live to fight another day' doctrine. George S. Patton
loss arrows drug
I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of control. Which isn't exactly right, because I didn't know what happened when you did drugs. George Saunders
loss missing slipping
He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it. Emma Forrest
loss army fighting
The president [Barack Obama] decided to leave more troops than he had originally planned in Afghanistan. We have a very cooperative government there, with Ashraf Ghani and his top - his top partner, Abdullah. And they are doing their very best. And the Afghan army is actually fighting. The Afghan army is taking heavy losses defending Afghan territory. Hillary Clinton
loss
Hold on to the love, not the loss. Eva Longoria
loss bitter obituary
It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries. Evan Esar
loss appetite-for-life despair
Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life. Gretel Ehrlich
loss today steady
The foods that are recommended today are as palatable as a steady diet of wet blotters. Groucho Marx
loss climate-change
One thing leads to the other. Deforestation leads to climate change, which leads to ecosystem losses, which negatively impacts our livelihoods - it's a vicious cycle. Gisele Bundchen
loss earth kind
We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God's earth is left more utterly unprotected and desolate than the slave in these circumstances. Harriet Beecher Stowe
loss treasure lightning
It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.
loss information structure
Disintegration of structure equals information loss. Gregory Benford
loss gone gorgeous
Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone. Gregory Maguire
loss opportunity knowing
Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these. Horace Bushnell
loss suffering moments
Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life. Hugh Prather
loss past mind
Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had to discover new ways of dealing with the past. In this he became a master when he discovered that the transmissibility of the past had been replaced by the citability and that in place of its authority there had arisen a strange power to settle down, piecemeal, in the present and to deprive it of ‘peace of mind,’ the mindless peace of complacency. Hannah Arendt
loss men space
If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend the life-span of mortal men…. There is perhaps no clearer testimony to the loss of the public realm in the modern age than the almost complete loss of authentic concern with immortality, a loss somewhat overshadowed by the simultaneous loss of the metaphysical concern with eternity.
loss reality quality
The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative. Guy deBord
loss reality ideas
The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now. Guy Finley
loss people secret
There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends. Friedrich Nietzsche
loss ecosystems water
Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth. Gary Larson
loss pretty-woman lovers
If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss. Erica Jong
loss thinking loving-someone
Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
loss house obscurity
Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place. Eric Clapton
loss men intellectual
We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial. Christopher Alexander
loss sincerity
Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
loss long secret
Little changes over time are the secret to long term weight loss success! Chris Powell
loss two people
No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming someone else or worse: becoming nothing but the vibratory field between two people. Chris Kraus
loss giving return
Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause -- the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return, the unquestioning willingness to lose everything, even if that loss is as something as precious as life itself.
loss color giving
That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory. F. Scott Fitzgerald
loss socialism slave
The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss. George Reisman
loss mysterious-things mysterious
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself. George Orwell