Quotes about loss
loss beloved ordeals
The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being. Victor Hugo
loss filling-up lasts
Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own ... Vicki Baum
loss thinking opposites
If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites. Vernon Howard
loss army salvation
When my Azzedine jacket from 1987 died, I wrapped it up in a box, attached a note saying where it came from and took it to the Salvation Army. It was a big loss. Veronica Webb
loss people watches
I am at a loss to figure out how to rid my e-mail of those bottom-feeders of the electronic world, the generators of spam.... If I were Emperor of the World, I would lock all the spammers in a room and force them to watch nothing but TV commercials for the rest of their miserable lives, and I would condemn the people who respond to spammers to do nothing but clean the toilets in this room. Richard Turner
loss long serious-things
Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long as we can, until we're compelled to abandon him completely against our will. It's a serious thing to toss away money, but to cast aside a person is even more serious. Nothing in human life is more rarely found, nothing more dearly possessed. No loss is more chilling or more dangerous than that of a friend. Thomas Moore
loss winning causes
And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves. Thomas More
loss evil inheritance
Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before. Thomas Paine
loss income benefits
The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up. Thomas Sowell
loss men two
What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things.
loss doe would-be
Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.
loss voting choices
More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words. The latest example is the 'Employee Freedom of Choice Act,' a bill that will do away with secret ballot elections among workers voting on whether to be represented by a union. It is an open invitation to intimidation - which is to say, loss of freedom of choice.
loss tests vietnam
I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam. Robert McNamara
loss giving fever
Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers. Robert James Graves
loss imagination wife
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination. Sarah Fielding
loss essentials calamity
Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Rohinton Mistry
loss essence snakes
...loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose - slough off, like a moulting snake. Losing and losing again, is the very basis of the process, til all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence...
loss funny-things important
Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different.
loss emotional addiction
Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual object, whose appeal is outside the subject's control. Addiction arises when the subject has full control over a pleasure and can ponder it at will. It is primarily a matter of sensory pleasure, and involves a kind of short-circuiting of the pleasure network. Addiction is characterized by a loss of the emotional dynamic that would otherwise govern an outward-directed, cognitively creative life. Roger Scruton
loss men goes-on
The man who goes on, even when it's the hardest to be the winner. Roger Bannister
loss easier
It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it. Roger Ebert
loss missing tragedy
Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning. Robin Roberts
loss thinking sorrow
I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself. Robin McKinley
loss united-states majority
I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate. Robert Torricelli
loss light machines
Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light. Robert Smithson
loss exercise hands
Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back Robert Quillen
loss kissing years
I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman who was never born I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet Everything passes Everything perishes Everything palls my thought walks away with a killing smile leaving discordant anxiety which roars in my soul No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope Sarah Kane
loss speech half
The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech. Richard M. Nixon
loss simple chance
What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to subordinate, as Ruskin implied, to keep proportion, to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good, even if admittedly good is often not simple to find. Richard Ford
loss erosion people
There is no doubt that constitutional freedoms will never be abolished in one fell swoop, for the American people cherish their freedoms, and would not tolerate such a loss if they could perceive it. But the erosion of freedom rarely comes as an all-out frontal assault but rather as a gradual, noxious creeping, cloaked in secrecy, and glossed over by reassurances of greater security. Robert Byrd
loss years looks
Fear wants us to become obsessed with some event or person in the future, a year, a month, even a day. It also wants us to look backwards not at our successes, but our short-comings and our failures. Fear losses it's grip when we stay in the now. Rob Bell
loss years people
Overweight and obesity is the second leading cause of death, killing 300,000 people a year, There is not a miracle pill that will lead to weight loss. Richard Carmona
loss bones heal
Bones heal, but the loss of my friend will never heal, Tracy Morgan