Loss Quotes
2897 Loss quotes by 1935 unique authors
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Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace…
— Jefferson Davis
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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…
— Dan B. Allender
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Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty,…
— William A. Niskanen
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Ever since the Christmas of 1953, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or…
— John Irving
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Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by…
— Wendell Berry
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Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss, but theirs, for…
— Unknown Author
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After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.
— Catherine Helen Spence
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With eternal investments there is never a loss of principle or principal.
— David Jeremiah
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But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your mortification…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for…
— Unknown Author
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There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties,…
— Preston Manning
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Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
— William Blake
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For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up…
— Michelle Pfeiffer
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William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.
— Glenn Ford
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When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like…
— Margaret Mahy
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No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
— David Eddings
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Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
— William Shakespeare
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Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that…
— Michael McCaul
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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us…
— Seneca the Younger
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The foods that are recommended today are as palatable as a steady diet of wet blotters.
— Groucho Marx
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Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like…
— Unknown Author
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That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
— James Kern Feibleman
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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.
— Kirk Kirkpatrick
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Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus…
— Gautama Buddha
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Contrary to popular belief, there is no such thing as an educated person. You are either learning or you are not. In today's world, it…
— Bob Proctor
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