Quotes about loss
loss mourn screens
I mourn the loss of the gigantic screen, but I guess you can't have everything. Warren Beatty
loss exercise thinking
It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time. Warren Buffett
loss trying gains
Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.
loss gains immortal
Every mortal loss is an immortal gain. William Blake
loss risk gains
Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise. Walker Percy
loss identity age
The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.
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 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. Julian Barnes
loss goodness
Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness Joss Whedon
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 blood names
The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing with the radio on his head, before he died of asphyxiation and blood loss. *Laughs* it was hilarious Thom Yorke
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
loss opportunity action
The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.
loss men may
Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.
loss men long
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
loss serious problem
Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption. Li Jinhua
loss america family-and-friends
It is difficult for me to talk about some of these things without reliving the extreme emotions and loss one always feels for the untimely deaths of acquaintances, family and friends, all because they stood up against the unlawful tyranny of non-Indian America. Leonard Peltier
loss use china
The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers. Lael Brainard
loss different kind
He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live. Marcus Aurelius
loss america memorial
God bless every soul that we lost. God bless the families who have to endure that loss, and God guide us to our reunion in heaven, and God bless the United States of America. Rudy Giuliani
loss advantage politeness
Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss. Samuel Johnson
loss sorrow gains
But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss.
loss parent loss-of-a-parent
Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent. Samantha Bond
loss land iraq
After they underestimated you, you Iraqis, now they've come on land; this attempt is our chance to incur losses on them Saddam Hussein
loss issues drug
We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal. Robert Hughes
loss simplicity grace
On her new LP, Shatter, Jude Johnstone examines heartbreak and loss with such tender resignation that I wept in acknowledgement of its artful simplicity. A lesson in melodic grace delivered by as fine a singer-songwriter as any I know. Rodney Crowell
loss love-is men
The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something nearer to whole men. Just as we complete them, of course; it’s not a one-way thing. Leola and I, when romance was stripped away, were too much alike; our strengths and weaknesses were too nearly the same. Together we would have doubled our gains and our losses, but that isn’t what love is. Robertson Davies