Quotes about loss
loss fighting childhood
The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every day from a young age, your soul can be contaminated. I lost my childhood. I never really had it. I have to be careful not to become cruel, because I became a soldier too early. Garry Kasparov
loss people losing
People always are encouraging about a terrible loss, so that sometimes the loser would like to strangle them. Garrison Keillor
loss a-loss-for-words
He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either.
loss court loses
When I lose a match, I know that I lose on the court and not in life. Gabriela Sabatini
loss presence-of-mind brave
I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel. Francois Fenelon
loss judging leaving
It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
loss unfair said
God never said that we wouldn’t have unfair situations, that we wouldn’t experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen. Joel Osteen
loss ministry unfair
Joel Osteen Ministries God never said that we wouldn’t have unfair situations, that we wouldn’t experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen Joel Osteen Ministries God never said that we wouldn’t have unfair situations, that we wouldn’t experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen
loss thinking people
I don't like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, "I'm only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world." I don't like to say that to people either. But, I do think there's a loss of romance. Jimmy Page
loss firsts
The first loss is the best loss. Jim Rogers
loss past understanding
For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators. Madeleine L'Engle
loss long growth
There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth. Lucy Powell
loss technology programming
It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins. Lou Gerstner
loss people mind
The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties. John Foxe
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 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 winning careers
When somebody talks about your career, most people are gonna talk about wins and losses, a World Series or pennants. But if somebody asked me how I would sum up my career, I would say I had a unbelievable, fabulous career. Jim Leyland
loss greatness men
My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America. Jim Ramstad
loss men climbing
Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent vast hostility of the elements, he rages against futility and asserts his right of being Jim Perrin
loss would-be our-society
In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be ?replaced? by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten. George Lucas
loss christ
All is loss that comes between us and Christ. George MacDonald
loss men confusion
The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned. Elizabeth Goudge
loss dark italian
But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care of my loved ones, my gums and my credit record, voting, etc. Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? In this dark period of loss, did I need any justification for learning Italian other than that it was the only thing I could imagine bringing me any pleasure right now? Elizabeth Gilbert
loss
eventually, everything goes away.
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 evil spinning
Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them. Karen Russell
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.