Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Johnson

We're plagued by the tragic loss of life. This possibly could have been prevented had there been a working smoke detector,

Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

James Russell Lowell

In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.

Laurence Sterne

Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as it must naturally lessen the concern they might otherwise feel for their loss.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

There's no great loss without some small gain.

Larry Holmes

With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.

Kyle Maynard

(After the losses) I decided I had to break through. I had to set a goal. My goal that I set was to never be pinned.

Liev Schreiber

I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might be why I've been drawn to other actors.

Friedrich Schiller

Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.

Friedrich Schiller

Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a very heavy toll in warships, in transports, in planes, and in men. They are feeling the effects of those losses.

Jon Krakauer

weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.

Lynn Redgrave

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

Lynn Margulis

Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a wing, a fruit, a woody stem, or a claw appear. Mutations, in summary, tend to induce sickness, death, or deficiencies. No evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambiguous evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly admit an infirmity in the one sense which ought to be more perfect in me than others, a sense which I once possessed in the highest perfection, a perfection such as few in my profession enjoy or ever have enjoyed.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you. Oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing.

Jacque Fresco

The social designs that are proposed in [The Venus Project] merely provide the opportunity for individuals to develop their fullest potential in whatever endeavor they choose without the fear of loss of individuality or submission to uniformity.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.

Henry Hazlitt

From a strictly economic point of view, buying gold in a major inflation and holding it probably presents the least risk of capital loss of any investment or speculation.

Henry Hazlitt

If there is to be no loss whatever of dignity or self-respect in getting and staying on relief, then there can be no gain in dignity or self-respect in makings some sacrifices to keep off.

Henry Hazlitt

We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry solve the incredibly complex problem of turning out tens of thousands of different goods and services in the proportions in which they are wanted by the public? ... It solves these problems through the institutions of private property, competition, the free market, and the existence of money - through the interrelations of supply and demand, costs and prices, profits and losses.

Henry David Thoreau

When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.

Mallory Ortberg

You need to be able to express your resentment and sense of loss in a way that doesn't damage your partner.

A loss is a loss. We have to be ready to stop the big inning. We didn't stay away from it tonight.

La'Roi Glover

All losses are tough, ... but this one is tougher.

Eric Hoffer

Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.

Eric Hoffer

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

You don't have to have 100 percent coverage, but you can't have a substantial loss in coverage. That is subject to interpretation.

The magnitude of the loss when it comes to property is going to be overwhelmed by the magnitude of the loss of life,

Gloria Vanderbilt

Some of us are born with a sense of loss. It is not acquired as we grow. It is already there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives.

J. M. Coetzee

When we are stirred to lament the loss of the gods, it is more than likely the gods who are doing the stirring.

Ivan Pavlov

Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment.