Quotes about loss
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.
loss grieving space
The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own. Kate Mosse
loss people special
I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.” "So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?" I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable. Laurell K. Hamilton
loss decision forever
A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved. John Kenneth Galbraith
loss president monkeys
There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming at him when they could easily have been brought right up and the president could have stood and talked in a conversational tone. John Chancellor
loss long if-i-stay
And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Gayle Forman
loss appeals circumstances
We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money. Livy
loss long age
It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which they had raised, and to end in neglect and obscurity that life which they began in honour. To the long catalogue of the inconveniences of old age, which moral and satirical writers have so copiously displayed, may be often added the loss of fame. Lyndon B. Johnson
loss devil sticks
A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them. Lord Byron
loss carpe-diem moments
The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable. Lord Chesterfield
loss thinking world
Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart. Malcolm Gladwell
loss government order
City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur Gavin Newsom
loss people moments
It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed. Gabrielle Zevin
loss outcomes awful
I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible. Joseph O'Neill
loss winning kind
I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win. Justin Halpern
loss years next-year
No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year. Julianna Baggott