Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Bennett

The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a long time.

Jonah Lehrer

How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his or her own mind, a talent psychologists call metacognition. We know when we are angry; every emotional state comes with self-awareness attached, so that an individual can try to figure out why he's feeling what he's feeling. If the particular feeling makes no sense—if the amygdala is simply responding to a loss frame, for example—then it can be discounted. The prefrontal cortex can deliberately choose to ignore the emotional brain.

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.

Richelle Mead

ʺWho′s a spirit user?ʺ said Robert. ʺFormer spirit user,ʺ said Victor, ʺShe became a Strigoi to get away from it.ʺ ʺYes . . . always a lure to that . . . kill to live, live to kill. Immortality and freedom from these chains, but oh, what a loss . . .ʺ said Robert.

Richelle Mead

Dmitri was at a total loss. It was a common reaction for people when I agreed to do something reasonable.

Russell Baker

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

Umberto Eco

All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.

Rebecca Solnit

If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an aesthetic sense that partially redeems the losses time brings and finds beauty in the faraway.

Rick Yancey

Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.

Rick Warren

There is no growth without change, and there is no change without loss.

Trisha Yearwood

The most important thing I want to get across is that maintaining weight loss is just hard. It takes a dedication to exercise and eating right most of the time. I'm not saying I don't enjoy the days that I'm not eating chocolate cake. But I do particularly like those days when I am eating chocolate cake.

Paramahansa Yogananda

What you lose in the world will not be a loss to your soul.

Ovid

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

Peter Garrett

This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.

Pauline Kael

If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn't have any feeling of loss. And that goes for Rottweilers, too.

Paul Valery

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Paul Tudor Jones

You learn more from your losses, than from your gains.

I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.

Mary Pickford

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

Mary Oliver

Every year everything I have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side is salvation

Mary Catherine Bateson

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

Philip Massinger

How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.

Pete Townshend

Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.

Pete Sessions

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

Pervez Musharraf

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

Paulo Coelho

Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over & over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.

Paulo Coelho

When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.

Paulo Coelho

When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.

Peter Singer

When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of happier life for the second. Therefore, if killing the hemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view, be right to kill him.

Peter Lynch

Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.

Quintilian

Lately we have had many losses.