Quotes about loss
loss america enthusiasm
A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do in a loss of appetite for work and perhaps even for leisure. David Riesman
loss ipads drawing
I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay. David Hockney
loss respect treat water
We respect the water, and use the water. We don't just let it go down the drain. We treat this water like gold. The only water loss is evaporation.
loss imagination feelings
What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Carl Jung
loss medicine weight
Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist. Calvin Trillin
loss people income
There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled Beryl Bainbridge
loss men yield
Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share. Bernard Baruch
loss men trying
Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers. Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters - or anyone - bringing gifts of 'inside' information or tips. Don't try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.
loss worst best-things
It's deeply human to do both the worst things and the best things because of your fear of loss. Cass Sunstein
loss species
We're experiencing species loss at 1 every 15 minutes, and that's a conservative estimate.
loss venice sick
They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. William Shakespeare
loss may hearing
Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
loss years missing
I am deeply saddened by the tragic loss of my dear friend Ronni Chasen. I have had the honor of working with her for over 15 years. She was one of a kind. I loved her. I miss her. Diane Warren
loss suffering innocence
Innocence is suffering and the loss of that innocence is something to fear. Diane Wakoski
loss blow winning
The most important thing regardless of my stats or anybody else's stats is the win-loss record. In the locker room people are always telling me, you're doing this and that. I don't really pay that much attention so long as we have a 'W' in that column; that's the kind of thing that makes me really happy. It blows all stats out of the water. Dhani Jones
loss thinking privacy
I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy. David Schwimmer
loss giving speech
I can give the loser leave to chide.
loss joy sorrow
Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . . . then wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.
loss men challenges
The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
loss men house
It is a strange anomaly that men could be careful to insure their houses, their ships, their merchandise, and yet neglect to insure their lives - surely the most important of all to their families, and more subject to loss. Benjamin Franklin
loss drink moderation
Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.
loss gains
Bad gains are true losses.
loss effort useless
In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.
loss secret purpose
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
loss skills culture
In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored and denigrated, and experiencing development with a great sense of trauma, loss and social disconnectedness. James Wolfensohn
loss choices difficulty
There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine. James Wolfe
loss thinking barbarians
I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have. Barbara Tuchman
loss people lost-friendship
Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss. Barbra Streisand
loss red taurus
I can't stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I'm Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
loss missing risk
Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable. Baltasar Gracian
loss doubt poison
Doubt is poison. It leads to a loss of faith in yourself, and in all that's good and true. Dean Koontz
loss sometimes loved-ones
it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed. Daniel Handler
loss people suffering
Who would you trust right now? Which bank would you trust? Which investment would you trust? Do you really want to put your money; do you want to suffer more of these losses that we just had? You know, these volatility that we see is just unexplainable by any rational standards. Nobody has any clue about how to explain this, and nobody wants to experience that. So, we hold more money back, we don't necessarily want to invest in the market and by default, people are saving more. Dan Ariely