Quotes about loss
loss excited moments
So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment. Augusten Burroughs
loss sick missing
I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up.
loss love possible
Sean: Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.
loss political tax
So it can be political unacceptable even if the tax loss isn't that great. This is political and ideological. David Perry
loss religion prejudice
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices. Denis Diderot
loss cheerful losing
The cheerful loser is the winner. Elbert Hubbard
loss losing-friends losing-money
Losing money is a big loss, losing friends is greater than the loss, also lost all faith is lost Eleanor Roosevelt
loss men good-man
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust. Ben Jonson
loss proverbs speakers-and-speaking
When at a loss how to go on, cough.
loss winning next
I've always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses. Brad Pitt
loss competition may
Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses Alfred P. Sloan
loss ideas generations
Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new generations out of the realization that the old formal culture-the "New England idea"-could no longer serve. Alfred Kazin
loss economic-value elements
Is it possible to preserve the element of Unknown Places in our national life? Is it practicable to do so, without undue loss in economic values? I say 'yes' to both questions. But we must act vigorously and quickly, before the remaining bits of wilderness have disappeared. Aldo Leopold
loss skills ideas
There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether to treat it with gravity or with raillery; whether to consider it as a mere trial of skill, like the paradoxes of rhetoricians; as a disingenuous artifice to instil prejudices at any price; or as the serious. Alexander Hamilton
loss mind liberty
The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.
loss discovery physicist
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was. Abraham Pais
loss
We were able to snatch her and without any loss of life.
loss islands light
In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece. A. J. Liebling
loss people looks
"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters." Agatha Christie
loss horror left
All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror. Abraham Joshua Heschel
loss blessing appreciate
It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss. Abraham Maslow
loss discovery identity
The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.
loss no-friends pleasure
If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss. Abraham Lincoln
loss thinking views
I think it's interesting, from a creative point of view, to have witnessed the loss of consciousness on a national level and on a cultural level - Bush had 91 percent support in the polls after 9/11. We wanted to kick some ass! Aleksandar Hemon
loss russia ideas
When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the objection that, after all the devastating losses we had experienced, it would be quite sufficient to have just one task: the preservation of a dying people. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
loss sorrow despair
Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement. Jeremy Taylor
loss weight way
The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life. Cyril Connolly
loss animal bigs
An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss. Daniel Pauly
loss past honor
To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
loss climate burning-fossil-fuels
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity. Dan Lipinski
loss may now-and-then
You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. E. V. Lucas
loss dust loser
I'm covered with loser dust. Courtney Love
losses market overnight wall weighed
Wall Street's losses overnight weighed on market sentiment.