Loss Quotes
2897 Loss quotes by 1935 unique authors
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We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them…
— Wilford Woodruff
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Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man-his courage and hope, or lack of them-and the state…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early…
— Laozi
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As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain,…
— Clifford Geertz
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The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it is an essential branch of liberty,…
— John Peter Zenger
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[I]f one asks what substantive contributions [F. A. Hayek] made to our understanding of how the world works, one is left at something of a…
— Paul Krugman
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Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when…
— Isaiah Berlin
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The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
— Sarah Fielding
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The first game was different but tonight we were just worried about getting ourselves back on track. It's another loss. We've got to keep going,…
— Dany Heatley
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I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the…
— Joseph O'Neill
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The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to…
— Ahmed Chalabi
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of…
— Adam Zagajewski
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For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's own abilities and…
— Charlie Huston
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We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes…
— Jill McCorkle
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The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.
— Shana Alexander
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God’s definition of success is really one of significance-the significant difference our lives can make in the lives of others. The significance doesn’t show up…
— Tony Dungy
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Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers…
— William Raspberry
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Edwards said he would like to be remembered for the impact he has had on the lives of his players. In this business we are…
— LaVell Edwards
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The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it…
— E. V. Lucas
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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
— Ambrose Bierce
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When in the wondrous realms above Our Saviour had been called upon, To save our world of sin by love, He said, "Thy will, O…
— Unknown Author
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There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single instinctive drive or…
— Carl Jung
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Thank you for calling the Weight Loss Hotline. If you'd like to lose a half pound right now, press 1 eighteen thousand times.
— Randy Glasbergen
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There should be a new way to record standings in this league; one column for wins, one for losses and one for gifts.
— Gene Mauch
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