Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Ehrenreich

Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.

Benjamin Graham

Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of good business conditions. The purchasers view the good current earnings as equivalent to 'earning power' and assume that prosperity is equivalent to safety.

Benjamin Graham

The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

Bruce Springsteen

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

Brad Gilbert

Because you can't change results - I would change my losses, and I would definitely like to see on-court coaching.

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.

We're 10-6, but you really have to look at our losses. All of the losses go right down the poll.

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.

Davis Love

Jack's got a loss and a tie. We'd like to get him a win.

We've experienced a loss and so we now know what that's like.

Wetland loss was part of the process, but it was always accompanied by wetland gain.

To come back after the tough loss in the first game, we needed that.

Joe Johnson

I thought we were on the verge, but a loss is a loss.

Joan Anderson

Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances.

We made too many mistakes tonight. This loss is disappointing.

This was not our day; it was actually a very embarrassing loss for us.

What do you do in a situation like this? I'm at a loss for words.

James Johnston

Reynolds Tobacco does not spike its products with nicotine, ... In fact, our process results in the loss of nicotine.

Alexander Hamilton

There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether to treat it with gravity or with raillery; whether to consider it as a mere trial of skill, like the paradoxes of rhetoricians; as a disingenuous artifice to instil prejudices at any price; or as the serious.

Alexander Hamilton

The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.

Abraham Pais

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.

Allen Tate

Our loss put six feet under ground Is measured by the magnolia's root; Our gain's the intellectual sound Of death's feet round a weedy tomb.

Ann Brashares

You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.

Ann Coulter

As the titanic losses were racking up, Fannie Mae's operators, Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick, disguised the catastrophe by orchestrating a $5 billion accounting fraud - all the while continuing to pressure banks to make absurd, politically correct loans and denouncing Republicans as enemies of the poor.

Ann Coulter

If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they would still have racist, fascist, homophobe, ugly, and a few other highly nuanced arguments in the quiver. But the loss of dumb would nearly cripple them.

Dale Carnegie

Put a 'stop-loss' order on your worries. Decide just how much anxiety a thing may be worth- and refuse to give it any more.

Claude Levi-Strauss

The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.

Duncan Fletcher

Simon Jones was so important and is going to be a big loss. It is a chance for someone like James Anderson to step up to the mark

Duncan Fletcher

We have to live with it, sometimes these coincidences do happen. They are obviously huge losses but we will just have to get on as we are.

Douglas Coupland

I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too much. But there are these feelings inside me which need badly to escape, I guess. And this makes me feel relieved because one of my big concerns these past few years is that I've been losing my ability to feel things with the same intensity- the way I felt when I was younger. It's scary- to feel your emotions floating away and just not caring. I guess what's really scary is not caring about the loss.