Quotes about loss
loss men secret
Antoine St. Exupery once mourned the loss of a man and the secret treasures that he held inside him. I loved Exupery; I will read him again, and he will talk to me, not being dead, or gone. Is that life after death — mind living on paper and flesh living in offspring? Maybe. I do not know. Sylvia Plath
loss body records
The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore. Rosanne Cash
loss choices care
With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care. Ron Wyden
loss reality two
When you suffer a loss, there is before the death and after the death - those become your two existences and your two realities. Sophia Bush
loss america way
Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families. Stephanie Coontz
loss consciousness break
The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie. Stanley Kubrick
loss self wife
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed. Soren Kierkegaard
loss numbness numb
He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness. Thomas Harris
loss causes purpose
The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone William Wordsworth
loss college men
Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities. William James
loss people decision
The ruling quality of leaders adaptive capacity, is what allows true leaders to make the nimble decisions that bring success. Adaptive capacity is also what allows some people to transcend the setbacks and losses that come with age and to reinvent themselves again and again. Warren G
loss may price-of-freedom
The price of freedom may be high, but never so costly as the loss of freedom. Ronald Reagan
loss thinking childhood
[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy. Said Sayrafiezadeh
loss soul fortitude
Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power. Saint Augustine
loss stuff tricky
The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose. Tori Amos
loss complacent around-the-corner
You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. Venus Williams
loss games losing
Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
loss simple weight
After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out. Valerie Bertinelli
loss lost-friendship benefits
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit. Ulrich Beck
loss faces glimpse
Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around. Roger Angell
loss intelligent past
A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never quite been able to shake it. This is facetious, on one level at least. There are telepaths in As I Lay Dying. But I think the most compelling thing for me is there are moments with him where I just feel these are not humans talking to each other. These are some hyper-intelligent, yet-to-be-born organisms. The way they look at the past without having any loss of knowledge – everything that ever happened is still here. Robert Reed
loss taste gone
What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it's gone. Rob Thomas
loss differences safety
It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management. Richard P. Feynman
loss spirit immortality
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
loss people common
Dmitri was at a total loss. It was a common reaction for people when I agreed to do something reasonable.
loss airports littles
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. Russell Baker
loss income benefits
The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up. Thomas Sowell
loss men two
What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things.
loss doe would-be
Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.
loss voting choices
More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words. The latest example is the 'Employee Freedom of Choice Act,' a bill that will do away with secret ballot elections among workers voting on whether to be represented by a union. It is an open invitation to intimidation - which is to say, loss of freedom of choice.
loss tests vietnam
I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam. Robert McNamara
loss giving fever
Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers. Robert James Graves
loss speech half
The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech. Richard M. Nixon