Quotes about loss
loss men pay
No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others. Napoleon Hill
loss thinking winning
If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't.
loss desire firsts
First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.
loss order law
Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself. Napoleon Bonaparte
loss eggs people
The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.
loss trying realization
Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life. Norman Schwarzkopf
loss thinking identity
This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature. Northrop Frye
loss europe islam
The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom. Oriana Fallaci
loss years law
But in the financial markets, without proper institutional rules, there's the law of the jungle - because there's greed! There's nothing wrong with greed, per se. It's not that people are more greedy now than they were 20 years ago. But greed has to be tempered, first, by fear of losses. So if you bail people out, there's less fear. And second, b prudential regulation and supervision to avoid certain excesses. Nouriel Roubini
loss practice suffering
But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago. Merton Miller
loss effort losing
My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses. Mason Cooley
loss progress may
Progress may feel more like loss than gain.
loss paradise sentimental
No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.
loss attachment bereavement
Attachments and bereavements are inseparable.
loss lasts lost
Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved.
loss curves path
At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough.
loss helping-others use
My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss. Marvin Sapp
loss cutting thinking
I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life. Martin Short
loss thinking nostalgia
For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. I think it's just a natural human response to loss. Michael Chabon
loss thinking talking
I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change. Michael Connelly
loss healthy safe
As you would expect, the loss of freedom and the lack of privacy are extremely difficult. But I am safe, fit and healthy. Martha Stewart
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 able way
You need to be able to express your resentment and sense of loss in a way that doesn't damage your partner. Mallory Ortberg
loss cutting winning
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. Jack Welch
loss birth hard
Birth, not death, is the hard loss. Louise Gluck
loss beer love-is
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! George Arnold
loss ready saw taste winning
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.
loss evil liberty
Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil will rarely be at a loss for other pretexts. James Madison
loss reality understanding
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. James M. Barrie