Quotes about loss
loss style something-new
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. Karl Kraus
loss illusion
The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover. Ouida
loss projects new-projects
I'm never at a loss for new projects. John Sayles
loss olympics losing
My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will Mark Spitz
loss exercise long
I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I'm around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise. Nick Carter
loss exercise voice
For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice. Nana Mouskouri
loss ozone years
We've polluted the stratosphere with these chlorine and bromine compounds, and because it's now colder, and because we have this change in the climate, we're getting more ozone loss than we would have gotten in a normal year. Paul Newman
loss numbers tragedy
The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low. Paul Bremer
loss shelter stories
I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life. Paul Bettany
loss sisterhood men
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring. Marya Mannes
loss people identity
Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction. Marshall McLuhan
loss men people
[On Jimmy Carter] "Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he puts nostalgia in its place.
loss want-something balance
Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right. Mark Helprin
loss people rude
The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted. Marion Ross
loss often-is denial
Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.
loss numbers hearing
Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.
loss voice weight
First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I've lost Onassis. Maria Callas
loss men evil
God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy. Oswald Chambers
loss men erosion
Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services. Paul Hawken
loss serious
I take losses very personal and very serious. Pau Gasol
loss government numbers
If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy. Judd Gregg
loss appreciate new-day
How do you recover from an extraordinary loss? Take stock of the loved ones around you. Hug them, love them, and cherish them. When you appreciate the joys in your life, it makes sorrow that much easier to swallow. Every day is a new day. Hope floats, so let it rise. God is love. Joseph Simmons
loss hair lost-friendship
You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded. Joseph Stalin
loss decision choices
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. Noam Chomsky
loss nfl loser
You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser. Joe Namath
loss missing feels
You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss. Jodi Picoult
loss remember-something happenings
If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?
loss dark light
You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss
loss rivers glasses
Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.
loss dialect different
Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?
loss innocence trauma
One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.
loss gone paradox
That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?
loss views would-be
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning. John Grierson