I will compensate all your one-inch, two-inch losses…

If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what…

— Kay Ryan

If the bad outweighs the good then cut your losses and know God has something better planned for you.

— Anonymous

“What you got and can count on your fingers can give you a cushion, a bank account, a security against universal losses. Nobody has…

— Stephanie Powell Watts

Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to…

— Richard Baxter

When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in…

— Milton Friedman

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

— Francis Quarles

I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it.…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the…

— John Milton

An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person…

— Jim Rohn

The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If…

— Charles Fort

If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Autumn is the very soul of metamorphosis, a time when the world is poised at the door of winter - which is the door…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.

— Rufus Wainwright

I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate…

— Joe Dunthorne

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out…

— David Byrne