Quotes about loss
loss animal desperate-situations
Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate. Frederica Mathewes-Green
loss self judging
The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs. George F. Kennan
loss childhood lost
I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost. Fernando Pessoa
loss law soul
None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But when we understand that God has given us his law to aid us in guarding our souls, we see that the law is for our fulfillment, not for our limitation. The law reminds us that some things, some experiences, some relationships are sacred. When everything has been profaned, it is not just my freedom that has been lost- the loss is everyone's. God gave us the law to remind us of the sacredness of life, and our created legal systems only serve to remind us of the profane judgments we make. Ravi Zacharias
loss stories culture
The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story. Tom Cole
loss identity defeat
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization. Slobodan Milosevic
loss feelings quality
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it. Siri Hustvedt
loss race gains
In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim. James Russell Lowell
loss compassion sick
Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as it must naturally lessen the concern they might otherwise feel for their loss. Laurence Sterne
loss gains prairie
There's no great loss without some small gain. Laura Ingalls Wilder
loss fighting giving
With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight. Larry Holmes
loss break-through goal
(After the losses) I decided I had to break through. I had to set a goal. My goal that I set was to never be pinned. Kyle Maynard
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 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
loss talking people
People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking. Josh Billings
loss men cry
There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account. Karl Jaspers
loss want doe
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear. Karl Kraus
loss style something-new
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
loss illusion
The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover. Ouida
loss understanding world
[I]f one asks what substantive contributions [F. A. Hayek] made to our understanding of how the world works, one is left at something of a loss. Were it not for his politics, he would be virtually forgotten. Paul Krugman
loss feel-good victory
Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory. I wanted them to feel good about what they had accomplished. Not to like losing, but to like the success that they had. Mike Krzyzewski
loss winning player
Therefore, as a player, as a coach, even though we might have lost in a season or not won a championship, it was like a self-fulfilling prophecy that I'm going to win some time. I've never felt myself a loser.
loss reality shining
Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself. Ramana Maharshi
loss cities suffering
I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities. Ralph Waldo Emerson
loss a-loss-for-words
I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified. Talib Kweli
loss artist creative
Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.
loss disappear form
Loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form. Tony Robbins
loss giving waiting
Don't even wait until you've lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat on the back.
loss thinking helping
Some people's weight loss is impeded by an impaired thyroid. So I think it's worth testing that at your next physical exam. If it's off, sometimes, that can be caused by excess metals, such as mercury or cadmium. A qualified M.D. can help you cleanse your body of those.
loss choices profit
A small profit it better than a big loss Ron Rash