Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. G. Wells

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

George Herbert

Too much taking heede is losse. [Too much taking heed is loss.]

Michele Bachmann

What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.

Michael Mandelbaum

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

The aim of promoting low down payments is to push prices back up so that fewer houses are going to be in negative equity and fewer people are going to walk away from the mortgages. That will save the from taking a loss on their junk mortgage loans.

Ravi Zacharias

The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.

Randy Pausch

There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.

Ralph Nader

Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them.

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Rachel Weisz

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.

George Reisman

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

George Orwell

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.

George Orwell

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.

George Carlin

Sudden total weight loss.

They walked all over us. A loss like this you start to talk about pride. As a team, as individuals, we got embarrassed out there.

Steve Tanner

They have trouble (offensively), too. Their losses have been similar to ours.

Chris Scelfo

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 Hadfield

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

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.

Gertrude Stein

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

Georges St-Pierre

You always recognize great champions... how they come back from a loss.

Herbert V. Prochnow

A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of reality, and if that changed conception led to a change in behavior and action, a loss of ego.

Jeff Foxworthy

You might be a redneck if...the most serious loss from the earthquake was your Conway Twitty record collection.

Jean Kerr

If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

James Cameron

That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.

James A. Baldwin

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.

Jacqueline Carey

Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.

Jack Vance

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.

Christopher Hitchens

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.

Gary Zukav

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.

Fulton J. Sheen

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

Hannah Arendt

Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had to discover new ways of dealing with the past. In this he became a master when he discovered that the transmissibility of the past had been replaced by the citability and that in place of its authority there had arisen a strange power to settle down, piecemeal, in the present and to deprive it of ‘peace of mind,’ the mindless peace of complacency.