Quotes about loss
loss thinking iran
It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on. I think in retrospect my generation will be seen as a turning point. From now on there'll be a net loss of knowledge in Europe. The difference between a peasant community in fourteenth-century Iran and modern London, though, is that if with their meager resources the villagers occasionally slipped backward, it was not for lack of trying. But with us, here in England, it was a positive choice. We chose to know less. Sebastian Faulks
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
loss tragedy finals
I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him—that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter. John Green
loss desire emeralds
I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés. Patti Smith
loss mobility terrorism
I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.
loss grieving tragedy
The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last. P. D. James
loss dieting typical
The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting. P. J. O'Rourke
loss loses hard
It's a hard loss when you lose by one point. Mariel Zagunis
loss evil vain
It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history. Theodore Parker
loss men intellectual
Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.
loss luxury heartless
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality. Theodore Roosevelt
loss government class
In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state; and in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into a government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of a government for the benefit of the people as a whole.
loss magic fiction
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome. Marco Tempest
loss thinking end-of-the-world
Part of being young is you thinking that gaining 6 lbs. Is the end of the world Melissa McCarthy
loss people united-states
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. Michele Bachmann
loss matter gains
All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides. Michael Mandelbaum
loss people house
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.
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 thinking phoenix
When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss. Leonardo DiCaprio
loss emotional thinking
I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of a little biologist when I was younger. I watched documentaries on rainforest pollution and the loss of species and habitats for animals around the world. It affected me in a very hardcore, emotional way when I was younger. So, later in life I wanted to continue that path more and investigate and learn more about ecological issues.
loss age youth
In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age. Leonardo da Vinci
loss intelligent
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
loss issues sick
Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later. Letty Cottin Pogrebin