Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca Solnit

If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an aesthetic sense that partially redeems the losses time brings and finds beauty in the faraway.

Rick Yancey

Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.

Rick Warren

There is no growth without change, and there is no change without loss.

Trisha Yearwood

The most important thing I want to get across is that maintaining weight loss is just hard. It takes a dedication to exercise and eating right most of the time. I'm not saying I don't enjoy the days that I'm not eating chocolate cake. But I do particularly like those days when I am eating chocolate cake.

Paramahansa Yogananda

What you lose in the world will not be a loss to your soul.

Ovid

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

Peter Garrett

This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.

Pauline Kael

If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn't have any feeling of loss. And that goes for Rottweilers, too.

Paul Valery

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Paul Tudor Jones

You learn more from your losses, than from your gains.

I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.

Mary Pickford

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

Mary Oliver

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 Catherine Bateson

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

Philip Massinger

How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.

Pete Townshend

Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.

Pete Sessions

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

Pervez Musharraf

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.

Paulo Coelho

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

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.

Paulo Coelho

When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.

Peter Singer

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 Lynch

Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.

Quintilian

Lately we have had many losses.

Pola Negri

Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.

Pol Pot

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.

Plutarch

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

Phyllis Schlafly

The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.

Pico Iyer

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

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.

Mike Pence

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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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.]