Loss Quotes - page 52

[O]ne loss in our era has been any interest in stories told from the top down. (George W. S. Trow)
I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship. View quote
Patti Smith
I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss. View quote
Patti Smith
Mass migration is like a slow and steady current of water which washes away the shore. It appears in the guise of humanitarian action, but its true nature is the occupation of territory; and their gain in territory is our loss of territory. View quote
Viktor Orbán
A wife is a gift bestowed upon man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
At a crisis in my youth he taught me the wisdom of choice: To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been. View quote
Chester Barnard
He has not lived in vain who learns to be unruffled by loss, by gain, by, joy, by pain. View quote
Angelus Silesius
Competition with women is almost always a net loss of honor for a man. Men don't consider competition between men and women to be "apples to apples." I don't think women do either... What does a man have to gain? He shows no courage by entering the ring with a woman. He is expected to win. If he does, his victory is shallow and unsavory. He gains no honor in beating a woman- the idea is offensive even to a modern man's vestigial sense of chivalry. View quote
Jack Donovan
Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in. View quote
Jackie Kay
To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it. View quote
Jacqueline Woodson
All gone. Zelazny was one of the first times I looked at something I had had familiarity with to find the spot where the memory should have been empty, replaced by a scrawled "Moved South for the Fishing" sign. Calculus was another loss. It was quite upsetting to reach for a skill and find nothing. (James Nicoll)
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
A wind of only 15 mph may increase the heat loss from a window surface by 47 percent or from a concrete wall by 34 percent. Therefore, heating plans have a critical relationship with windbreaks and with wind baffles. View quote
Ken Kern
If no attempt is made to control excessive heat loss through glass... a solar house may require as much as 20 percent more fuel than an orthodox house during December and January... Wendell Thomas recognized and solved this problem... by burying the house in the ground, except for the south and east window areas. ...at night... windows are covered with from inside by insulation boards and drapes... View quote
Ken Kern
I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn. View quote
Jim Gibbons
Homeland is something one becomes aware of only through its loss. View quote
Günter Grass
A certain proverb, that the whole world knows, Says that loss also steals away our senses, And that the man thus robbed, like madman goes About, and right and left the blame dispenses. View quote
Francesco Berni
Every farewell combines loss and new freedom. View quote
Mason Cooley
There is nothing does more endanger the loss of commerce with the Indians than want of truck to barter with them. View quote
Leonard Calvert
Aboriginal lore is vast and it is inclusive. Bitterness comes from loss of culture and loss of lore. And we have lost those things to some degree. But if you actually understand the old culture then you understand that we are all in it together. (Melissa Lucashenko)
My story is very boring. Mostly about hair loss. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him. View quote
William Shakespeare
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor. View quote
William Shakespeare
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. View quote
William Shakespeare