Quotes about loss
loss long evil
That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience. James Cameron
loss justice identity
Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his. James A. Baldwin
loss true-value values
Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value. Jacqueline Carey
loss garments existence
Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe. Jack Vance
loss trade eternal-vigilance
The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both. Christopher Hitchens
loss losing affection
When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love. Gary Zukav
loss want woe
Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others. Fulton J. Sheen
loss winning reality
Wins and losses right now are important, but in reality it's the least of my concerns. My concern is to make sure than we give hope to anyone watching us. I am not going to judge this season on wins and losses. Chris Scelfo
loss reality years
Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space. Chris Hadfield
loss fire atmosphere
Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.
loss mysterious-things mind
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind. George Orwell
loss resolution resolve
Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution. Fyodor Dostoevsky
loss glasses gains
I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persuade us of good fortune, when all the while the glass is emptying. Jeanette Winterson
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.
loss differences profound
There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa . Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.
loss weight-loss weight
Sudden total weight loss. George Carlin
loss unique abortion
It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history. Frederica Mathewes-Green
loss animal desperate-situations
Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.
loss self judging
The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs. George F. Kennan
loss childhood lost
I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost. Fernando Pessoa
loss pet earth
Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth. Francis of Assisi
loss funny-friend men
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. Francis Bacon
loss hands years
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?
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