Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jared Diamond

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

There are no moral victories. A win is a win and a loss is a loss.

Arlen Specter

There are some losses that the president has sustained, but by and large, I think that the president has won.

Charles Davis

I'm at a loss for words right now.

Avery Johnson

I'm at a loss for words on our defense. We've got to have significant improvement.

Obviously, we are not going to see some substantial gains, but I think we will be able to retrace some of these losses by the end of the week.

Obviously, this is a disappointing loss for us,

I don't remember many people who were not surprised at the size of the loss and the nature of the loss.

I don't think it's quite struck, the loss that we've incurred.

Marcus Camby

I feel for Earl. I've been there. I know what he's going through right now. It's a big loss for us.

I feel like there has been a loss of urgency since 9/11.

E. O. Wilson

I can tell you very candidly that the loss in Miami was a crusher for me.

Dontrelle Willis

I don't even know what WHIP means, ... They were so similar, I have no idea. Maybe because I had more losses than him. That's the only thing I can see off the top of my head.

Carl Sandburg

Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

Carnie Wilson

There's a huge emotional component to weight loss.

Alain de Botton

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

Charles Darwin

I am not very skeptical... a good deal of skepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time, but I have met not a few men, who... have often thus been deterred from experiments or observations which would have proven servicable.

Charles Babbage

It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.

The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses.

Barry Goldwater

I think a current understanding about urban behavior tells us that it's important that people get out and be able to get away from the concrete jungles and the dense environment where they live for their own mental well-being. If they don't do this, the costs in human loss and human sickness will be far greater than what we would be expending for these kinds of releases and open spaces.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.

Bruce Kovner

My experience with novice traders is that they trade three to five times too big. They are taking 5 to 10 percent risks on a trade when they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks. The emotional burden of trading is substantial; on any given day, I could lose millions of dollars. If you personalize these losses, you can’t trade.

Bruce Kovner

If you personalize losses, you can't trade.

Brian Weiss

A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth.

Edmund Burke

It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.

Eckhart Tolle

Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.

E. V. Lucas

You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.

Courtney Love

I'm covered with loser dust.

Wall Street's losses overnight weighed on market sentiment.

Ann Voskamp

Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.

Andy Roddick

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.