Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis of Assisi

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.

It's a loss for the voters of Florida.

It was a real tough loss to swallow, but you can't put it on one guy. We had a lot of penalties and mistakes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

Ian Fleming

The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.

Hugh Howey

It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.

Hunter S. Thompson

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel. Total loss of all basic motor skills, blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue - the mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column. Which is interesting, because you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can’t control it.

Ethan Hawke

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

Ernst Mayr

The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started by a single pair or by a single fertilized female. These 'founders' of the population carried with them only a very small proportion of the variability of the parent population. This 'founder' principle sometimes explains even the uniformity of rather large populations, particularly if they are well isolated and near the borders of the range of the species.

Henry David Thoreau

The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

Henry David Thoreau

I could lecture on dry oak leaves; I could, but who would hear me? If I were to try it on any large audience, I fear it would be no gain to them, and a positive loss to me. I should have behaved rudely toward my rustling friends.

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

Chris Powell

Little changes over time are the secret to long term weight loss success!

Chris Kraus

No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming someone else or worse: becoming nothing but the vibratory field between two people.

Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause -- the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return, the unquestioning willingness to lose everything, even if that loss is as something as precious as life itself.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

Bobby Hamilton

I know we an't keep taking these losses like this. We've got to do something right now and get back on track.

Pola Negri

Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.

Pol Pot

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.

Plutarch

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

Phyllis Schlafly

The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.

Pico Iyer

You can see exile as loss, and then it will be a loss for you. You can treat it as opportunity and then all kinds of benefits accrue.

Pico Iyer

Often when we think of exile we think of destruction or loss. But the Dalai Lama always says exile is reality, it's something we can make use of, and he has used it to get rid of everything that he thought was stifling and old, and to create a new, improved and much healthier Tibet.

Mike Pence

We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]

Jon Stewart

Nazi Germany was so destructive to Judaism not only for the loss of life, but because many who survived began to see the practice of Judaism as somewhat of a health hazard.

Joyce Carol Oates

I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.

Katherine Anne Porter

. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.

Jack Welch

A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.

Louise Gluck

Birth, not death, is the hard loss.

George Arnold

But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!

The Elon loss was not one we saw coming. At the same time, we're 11-2. We're ready to get that winning taste back.