Quotes About Losing A Great Man

#1. You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

Roger Kahn

#2. Every man who knows anything of languages, knows that it is impossible to translate from one language into another, not only without losing a great part of the original, but frequently of mistaking the sense.

Thomas Paine

#3. I know how men in exile feed on dreams

Aeschylus

#4. My aunts were not cruel, you understand. They loved to talk, and at every available opportunity they gave away the neatly wrapped presents of their thoughts, confident that no one would refuse them.

Ann Howard Creel

#5. Life can be hard at times. People can be hard on each other. Being hard on yourself is completely unnecessary.

Ron Baratono

#6. If every violent program in the nation were blipped off the air for 48 hours, and replaced by reruns of the 'Donna Reed Show', there would not be one less death in South Central LA. At most you'd have several more incidents of people shooting out their TVs.

J. Michael Straczynski

#7. In politics, everyone regards themselves as a moderate, because they know some other sumbitch who's twice as crazy as they are.

Timothy B. Tyson

#8. Youll come to see that a man learns nothing from winning. The act of losing, however, can elicit great wisdom. Not least of which is how much more enjoyable it is to win. Its inevitable to lose now and again. The trick is not to make a habit of it.

Albert Finney

#9. A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

Ronald Reagan

#10. The union of lakes
the union of lands
The union of States none can sever
The union of hearts
the union of hands
And the flag of our Union for ever!

George Pope Morris

#11. People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.

John C. Maxwell

#12. I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways, and we lived through some pretty tough times losing my mom. When I see all that he did, I think, 'Wow, that's a really wonderful man.'

Emmanuelle Chriqui

#13. There is no difference between sitting around the pit watching dogs fight and sitting around a summer barbecue roasting the corpses of tortured animals or enjoying the dairy or eggs from tortured animals.

Gary L. Francione

#14. He picked one at random, a luridly violent far-future crime novel about a detective who could seemingly exchange bodies at will, but the subject matter was alien to him and his attention drifted. It all seemed very far-fetched.

Richard K. Morgan