Quotes about loss
loss voice weight
First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I've lost Onassis. Maria Callas
loss men evil
God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy. Oswald Chambers
loss thinking understanding
Do not think dishonestly... Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. Perceive those things which cannot be seen. Pay attention even to trifles. Do nothing which is of no use. Miyamoto Musashi
loss weight glory
There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss. Mireille Guiliano
loss soul risk
To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul. R. C. Sproul
loss reputation should
That should be regarded as a loss, which is won at the expense of our reputation. Publilius Syrus
loss gains made
Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.
loss evil gains
An evil gain equals a loss.
loss losing-friends losing-friendship
To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.
loss ignorant
A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.
loss acquisition ends
An end to our getting is the only end to our losses.
loss gains reputation
Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.
loss government top-down
There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents. Preston Manning
loss decision choices
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. Noam Chomsky
loss men choices
Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims. Honore de Balzac
loss secret crime
The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.
loss winning losing
Winners have to absorb losses. Ice T
loss satisfaction kind
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. Ivan Illich
loss choices may
We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss. Isaiah Berlin
loss perfect choices
The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is a truism--but conceptually incoherent. ......Some among the great goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth. We are doomed to choose, and every choice may entail an irreparable loss.
loss justice choices
Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when they are incompatible, they cannot all be attained, choices must be made, sometimes tragic losses accepted in the pursuit of some preferred ultimate end.
loss thinking numbers
In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown. This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency. Irvin D. Yalom
loss weight week
When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries. Kirstie Alley
loss men two
I will compensate all your one-inch, two-inch losses because I know how important every inch is to you aged, decrepit men. Kim Harrison
loss medical fit
But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so. Kay Redfield Jamison
loss years remembrance
St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow experience. For one who during her undergraduate years was trying to escape an inexplicable weariness and despair, St. Andrews was an amulet against all manner of longing and loss, a year of gravely held but joyous remembrances.
loss roots scary
Things that scare me are the loss of control, dealing with the unknown and the unseen. Something that's not supposed to be there and you don't know where it came from, or what it wants from you, or how to defend yourself against it. That's the root of the things I find scary. Oren Peli
loss accomplish-your-goals helping
You can't do it all yourself. Don't be afraid to rely on others to help you accomplish your goals. Oprah Winfrey
loss focus towers
My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss. Kiefer Sutherland
loss cards banking
I trust online banking. You know why? Because if somebody hacks into my account and defrauds my credit card company, or my online bank account, guess who takes the loss? The bank, not me. Kevin Mitnick
loss damage sun
No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses. Sun didn't stop using Solaris and DEC didn't stop using VMS.
loss manhattan down-and
Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties.
loss littles
Little losses amaze, great tame. George Herbert