Quotes about loss
loss thinking sight
The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred. Samuel Beckett
loss men gains
What is one man's gain is another's loss. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
loss way emergencies
The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency. Sally Ride
loss thinking matter
You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss. Salman Rushdie
loss privacy deals
No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined. Wesley Snipes
loss effort environmental
The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss of biodiversity and topsoil, accelerates, causing development efforts to falter. Wangari Maathai
loss expression confusion
Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression. William Congreve
loss light well-known
For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right. William Cowper
loss ears animated
But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.
loss comforting black
It is comforting to know that there is at least one place where we can go and be confident that we will find an audience thirsting to find new music. Paste Magazine is that place. It's loss would create a very large black hole. Wayne Coyne
loss thinking voice
I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed. Ursula K. Le Guin
loss numbness numb
He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness. Thomas Harris
loss people growing
People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life. Thomas Jane
loss technology promise
Technology isn't fulfilling its promise of unlimited progress and solving every problem through technology. With the Enlightenment and its aftermath, there already was a general loss of confidence in the Western religions. Thomas Keating
loss soul sin
Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls. Thomas Brooks
loss trials world
Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.
loss years gambling
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. Vince Cable
loss suffering family-and-friends
Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime? Sam Harris
loss blessing divine
Keeping divine commandments brings blessings, every time! Breaking divine commandments brings a loss of blessings, every time! Russell M. Nelson
loss government liberty
If it's not accepted that big government, fiat money, ignoring liberty, central economic planning, welfarism, and warfarism caused our crisis, we can expect a continuous and dangerous march toward corporatism and even fascism with even more loss of our liberties, Ron Paul
loss rose gains
Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down. Rumi
loss choices profit
A small profit it better than a big loss Ron Rash
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 talking sea
More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone. Paula McLain
loss losing difficult
When seasons change in our life, it's difficult. Because it feels like loss and no one likes loss. And I go through, how do you do that? How do you take that transition without losing it in the curve? Paula White
loss afterlife legs
The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg. Peter Stuyvesant
loss america complaining
You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline Phil Gramm
loss psychics lost-friendship
A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it. Phil Donahue
loss night important
Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away. Phyllis McGinley
loss subtraction accumulation
Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure. Julian Barnes
loss thinking long
Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.
loss perspective pay
Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation. Ted Koppel