Quotes about loss
loss president monkeys
There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming at him when they could easily have been brought right up and the president could have stood and talked in a conversational tone. John Chancellor
loss soul youth
What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money. Lisa Bonet
loss winning league
Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it. Lindsay Davenport
loss laughing matter
Are you having problems hearing? If so, those around you already know it. Hearing loss is no laughing matter, so don't be a punchline. Leslie Nielsen
loss feel-good victory
Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory. I wanted them to feel good about what they had accomplished. Not to like losing, but to like the success that they had. Mike Krzyzewski
loss winning player
Therefore, as a player, as a coach, even though we might have lost in a season or not won a championship, it was like a self-fulfilling prophecy that I'm going to win some time. I've never felt myself a loser.
loss talking sea
More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone. Paula McLain
loss losing difficult
When seasons change in our life, it's difficult. Because it feels like loss and no one likes loss. And I go through, how do you do that? How do you take that transition without losing it in the curve? Paula White
loss afterlife legs
The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg. Peter Stuyvesant
loss america complaining
You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline Phil Gramm
loss psychics lost-friendship
A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it. Phil Donahue
loss night important
Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away. Phyllis McGinley
loss subtraction accumulation
Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure. Julian Barnes
loss winning diplomacy
In diplomacy, clear-cut wins and losses are rare. Madeleine Albright
loss light people
I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love. Mackenzie Phillips
loss world destruction
We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss. Haruki Murakami
loss sorrow despair
Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.
loss vices sin
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss. John Dryden
loss long investing
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity. John Maynard Keynes
loss stuff painful
The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it. John Lurie
loss jewels care
General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny. John Locke
loss together disaster
. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses. Katherine Anne Porter
loss determined
the lives we lead are determined, for better and worse, by our loss experiences. Judith Viorst
loss growth pay
Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.
loss grieving space
The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own. Kate Mosse
loss people special
I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.” "So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?" I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable. Laurell K. Hamilton
loss decision forever
A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved. John Kenneth Galbraith
loss outcomes awful
I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible. Joseph O'Neill
loss winning kind
I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win. Justin Halpern
loss years next-year
No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year. Julianna Baggott
loss talking people
People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking. Josh Billings
loss men cry
There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account. Karl Jaspers
loss want doe
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear. Karl Kraus