Quotes about loss
loss stuff tricky
The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose. Tori Amos
loss complacent around-the-corner
You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. Venus Williams
loss games losing
Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
loss simple weight
After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out. Valerie Bertinelli
loss lost-friendship benefits
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit. Ulrich Beck
loss faces glimpse
Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around. Roger Angell
loss winning coaching
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner! Vince Lombardi
loss men stuff
Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man! Rudyard Kipling
loss people poor
No matter who you are, if you have a $30 operating loss, you can carry it forward to the next year. And poor people do take advantage of that, also. Rudy Giuliani
loss america memorial
God bless every soul that we lost. God bless the families who have to endure that loss, and God guide us to our reunion in heaven, and God bless the United States of America.
loss advantage politeness
Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss. Samuel Johnson
loss sorrow gains
But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss.
loss parent loss-of-a-parent
Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent. Samantha Bond
loss land iraq
After they underestimated you, you Iraqis, now they've come on land; this attempt is our chance to incur losses on them Saddam Hussein
loss ears columbia
The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear. Ronald Reagan
loss issues drug
We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal. Robert Hughes
loss simplicity grace
On her new LP, Shatter, Jude Johnstone examines heartbreak and loss with such tender resignation that I wept in acknowledgement of its artful simplicity. A lesson in melodic grace delivered by as fine a singer-songwriter as any I know. Rodney Crowell
loss love-is men
The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something nearer to whole men. Just as we complete them, of course; it’s not a one-way thing. Leola and I, when romance was stripped away, were too much alike; our strengths and weaknesses were too nearly the same. Together we would have doubled our gains and our losses, but that isn’t what love is. Robertson Davies
loss people levels
People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses. Vince Young
loss mourn screens
I mourn the loss of the gigantic screen, but I guess you can't have everything. Warren Beatty
loss exercise thinking
It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time. Warren Buffett
loss trying gains
Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.
loss gains immortal
Every mortal loss is an immortal gain. William Blake
loss risk gains
Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise. Walker Percy
loss identity age
The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.
loss thinking sight
The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred. Samuel Beckett
loss men gains
What is one man's gain is another's loss. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
loss way emergencies
The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency. Sally Ride
loss thinking matter
You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss. Salman Rushdie
loss privacy deals
No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined. Wesley Snipes
loss effort environmental
The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss of biodiversity and topsoil, accelerates, causing development efforts to falter. Wangari Maathai
loss expression confusion
Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression. William Congreve
loss light well-known
For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right. William Cowper