Top 100 Loss Of Quotes
#1. I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again ...
John Geddes
#2. I learned early on that it's heartbreaking to - there's the editor that comes in, and then they have to craft the movie together, and sometimes you give a whole performance that's just been cut up, and maybe it's better for it, absolutely, but you still have to deal with the loss of that.
Tavis Smiley
#3. I didn't know what to do, there was a feeling of time running out and a loss of momentum, of opportunities wasted.
Jon McGregor
#4. To lose ones faith-surpass The loss of an Estate- Because Estates can be Replenished- faith cannot-.
Emily Dickinson
#5. With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.
Ron Wyden
#6. 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
#7. For the loss of the team, a Seattle Post-Intelligencer snap poll found that 40 percent of readers blamed Schultz the most, followed by 15 percent for Nickels and 11 percent for Bennett.
David Holt
#8. In the business world, unwise men take more that they give. They do not realize that they are breaking the Universal Law which will eventually break them to an equal extent. It may not be balanced in the form of dollars and cents but in the loss of good-will upon which their future business depends.
Walter Russell
#9. The hole where my heart had finally grown back after the loss of my parents was returning because of the very person who had filled the void
Cassandra Giovanni
#11. Each instant brought them, more momentous than the explosion of Krakatoa. It was only that no one noticed. We are to accustomed to the absurdity of existence. The loss of a universe is not worth taking seriously.
Yukio Mishima
#12. The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
Seneca.
#13. Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
Douglas Haig
#15. It is the loss of the feminine counterpart of God that causes the wound that never heals..
Margaret Starbird
#16. Still, the loss of something is significant, and I think that loss is the necessary source of a new manifestation.
Yukio Mishima
#17. Nazi Germany was so destructive to Judaism not only for the loss of life, but because many who survived began to see the practice of Judaism as somewhat of a health hazard.
Jon Stewart
#18. The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.
Alexander Haig
#19. In all of us, there is a child that exists while we have our parents. With my mother gone, I feel a sadness for the loss of the child within myself.
J.L. Witterick
#20. He wondered often how he would ever recognize the first chill, flush, twinge, ache, belch, sneeze, stain, lethargy, vocal slip, loss of balance or lapse of memory that would signal the inevitable beginning of the inevitable end.
Joseph Heller
#21. Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire.(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices.
John Gray
#22. Burnout can be defined as a loss of enthusiasm, energy, idealism, perspective, and purpose; it has been described as trying to run a marathon at full speed. It's often the mothers who care the most who are the most prone to burnout.
Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett
#23. The economic insecurity of the past ten to 15 years, the 2008 Wall Street crash, NAFTA, and the loss of millions of good jobs - these directly grow out of Democratic Party neo-liberal policies.
Jill Stein
#24. For the loss of Chung-Cha. And she was scared. "Hey, guys, come on in," said Julie warmly. Her guardian, Jerome Cassidy, had recovered from his injuries at the hands of
David Baldacci
#25. In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this.
I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away.
I can't say goodbye.
China Mieville
#26. No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.
Napoleon Hill
#27. I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.
Fernando Pessoa
#28. City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.
Gavin Newsom
#29. A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.
Abigail Disney
#30. Puritanism, he said, was a reaction to the loss of moral fiber that accompanied the Renaissance.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#31. The entire Habitat family mourns the loss of our founder, a true giant in the affordable housing movement. Our prayers are with the entire Fuller family.
Jonathan Reckford
#32. When you live with a potentially life-threatening condition you get used to the thought of dying. You accept it, you push on. The thing that scared me was the picture of dying slowly and painfully, the loss of independence and identity to illness.
Josh Lanyon
#33. ...unlike the Lost Generation, which was occupied with the loss of faith, the Beat Generation is becoming more and more occupied with the need for it.
John Clellon Holmes
#34. The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#35. What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire
#36. More cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution ... than to anything else.
Martin Lings
#37. Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'
Caitlin Doughty
#38. Not to mention that I have finally
arrived at that age where a woman starts to question whether the wisest way to get over the
loss of one beautiful brown-eyed young man is indeed to promptly invite another one into her
bed.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#39. The loss of courtship in modern days - like, people don't court anybody anymore. There's no beauty about it.
Sofia Vassilieva
#40. It had been years before she could view anybody else's happiness without mourning the loss of her own.
Jojo Moyes
#41. The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a long time.
Jonathan Bennett
#42. The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment ... Hungry women are not fed by this, battered women are not sheltered by it, raped women do not find justice in it, gays and lesbians do not achieve legal protections through it.
Martha C. Nussbaum
#43. 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
#44. The truth, indeed, is out - but the ears to hear it and the minds to learn from it seem to have been atrophied by a cultivated ignorance and a nearly total loss of critical insight.
Murray Bookchin
#45. None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100% in charge of how we respond to challenges that come our way, be it the loss of a job, a career derailment, or some other disappointment.
Edward Whitacre Jr.
#46. When we are stirred to lament the loss of the gods, it is more than likely the gods who are doing the stirring.
J.M. Coetzee
#47. Assumptions equal a loss of pride and the sting of defeat.
Donna Lynn Hope
#48. It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.
George W. Bush
#49. Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us a heart capable of leading others reluctantly and humbly.
Dan B. Allender
#50. I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.
Craig Newmark
#51. There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.
Red Skelton
#52. If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.
Marilyn Manson
#53. I don't want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I throw you out of the window, I want there to be no doubt the act was deliberate.
Ilona Andrews
#54. The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
Erich Fromm
#55. This "manna from heaven" was being squandered because of the laziness and stupidity of the savages who refused to work as harvesters of latex and obliged the planters to go to the tribes and take them by force. Which meant a great loss of time and money for the enterprises. "Well,
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#56. She used to wander through the past as often as it beckoned her, bemoaning the loss of nostalgia. Then, for a while, she turned from it, blissfully free of its noxious clutch, and now it's back, taunting her with what she left behind, knowing she can never recapture what's gone.
Donna Lynn Hope
#57. Fears are all psychological. Being afraid of death, loss of a loved one and disfigurement are all powered by your mind, and that's very powerful stuff.
John Carpenter
#58. If you want to feel secure, do what you already know how to do. If you want to be a true professional and continue to grow ... Go to the cutting edge of your competency, which means a temporary loss of security. So whenever you don't quite know what you're doing, know you're growing.
Madeline Hunter
#59. Success is the ability to move from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
Kenny Golde
#60. Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.
Siri Hustvedt
#61. If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West: and if Rome still survived, she survived the loss of freedom, of virtue, and of honour.
Edward Gibbon
#62. In Sheffield, we need support from the community and for the community. We need integration with no loss of heritage, and a clear appreciation of what is and is not acceptable.
David Blunkett
#63. That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?
Maurice Sendak
#64. And the farther I walked away, the more upset I got, at the loss of one of the few stable and unchanging docking-points in the world that I'd taken for granted: familiar faces, glad greetings ...
Donna Tartt
#65. The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.
John Steinbeck
#66. A broken heart isn't so much the loss of the person as it is the loss of your dreams with that person.
Diane Les Becquets
#67. We fear more than the loss of anything else the disappearance of possessions that have remained outside ourselves, because our hearts have not taken possession of them.
Marcel Proust
#68. Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
Eli Roth
#69. To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.
Laozi
#70. At the end of the century, humans will look back at our impact on the planet and World War II will be a footnote compared to us presiding over the largest loss of biodiversity since a meteor hit the planet sixty-five million years ago.
Louie Psihoyos
#71. When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be very eager to stamp the truth upon the prepared mind. Such opportunities are to be seized with holy eagerness.
Charles Spurgeon
#72. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
#73. A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?
Ron Suskind
#74. One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
Mary Pickford
#75. A world without esoteric knowledge is a poorer place and we as a humanity pay the price for the loss of its principles.
Belsebuub
#76. People do really well on space missions, but it's the physiological, the medical stuff, the stuff like radiation, loss of bone mass and muscle mass and density. It's those things that we need to figure out.
Scott Kelly
#77. I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.
Ugo Cavallero
#78. Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we could give them?
Vincent De Paul
#79. I'm feeling sick, but not the vomiting kind. Loss of independence is painful in ways no one can see.
Anonymous
#80. Loving someone is a loss of freedom
but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
Erica Jong
#81. No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.
W. Edwards Deming
#82. I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.
Patti Smith
#83. The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#84. We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.
Nikola Tesla
#85. If there is an evil in this world, it is sorrow and heaviness of heart. The loss of goods, of health, of coronets and mitres, is only evil as they occasion sorrow; take that out, the rest is fancy, and dwelleth only in the head of man.
Laurence Sterne
#86. The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.
Seneca The Younger
#87. After the loss of my sister - my darkest time - I tried to think of the beauty she'd brought to this world and the lives she had touched and the love she had left behind.
Susanna Kearsley
#88. However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans.
Ruben Hinojosa
#89. Beauty is a willing loss of mental control, surrendered to organic process that is momentarily under the direction of an exterior object. The object is not thought and felt about, exactly. It seems to use my capacities to think and feel itself.
Peter Schjeldahl
#90. Mr. Gibreel Farishta on the railway to London was once again seized as who would not be by the fear that God had decided to punish him for his loss of faith by driving him insane.
Salman Rushdie
#91. Love is not what you fear, is it? You fear the loss of it.
Malinda Lo
#92. The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.
Shana Alexander
#93. But the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to a premature certainty.
Marcel Proust
#95. To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate.
Jean De La Bruyere
#96. Like humans, birds mourn the loss of fledglings and mates. There are a thousand variant weeping songs to sing. I had to sign mine and get on with it. That is what I did
Michele Young-Stone
#97. The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.
R.C. Sproul
#98. The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they don't their failure will be a tragedy for civilization, a loss of cooperative effort, a baulking of energy, and the fixing in American life of a class-structure.
Walter Lippmann
#99. In the five years since the end of the Great Recession, the economy has made considerable progress in recovering from the largest and most sustained loss of employment in the United States since the Great Depression.
Janet Yellen
#100. Is it possible, that is, to love God no matter what? Job, through three tough tests - the loss of his possessions and children, the loss of his health, and the loss of his friends and their respect - answers in the affirmative. Yes, it is possible. In fact, it is necessary
Sidney Greidanus
