Loss Quote by John McPhee Download Open image “In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.” — John McPhee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Loss Nature Risk War Winning
Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
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Risk deters those who see what they could lose. Those focused on the gain see it as a necessary part of their journey, even… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning. — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image
“The advantage of some is won by an equivalent loss of others.” — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
“For nonfiction projects, ideas are everywhere. They just go by in a ceaseless stream.” — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“I’d much rather watch people do what they do than talk to them across a desk.” — John McPhee Copy Share Image
I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes. — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“A lead is good not because it dances, fires cannons, or whistles like a train but because it is absolute to what follows.” — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“If basketball was going to enable Bradley to make friends, to prove that a banker's son is as good as the next fellow, to… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“Since most callers have until moments before been completely unaware that there are bears in New Jersey, there is often in their voices a… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“Incandescent carbon particles, by the tens of millions, leap free of the log and wave like banners, as flame. Several hundred significantly different chemical… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.” — John McPhee Copy Share Image
Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum. ” — John McPhee Copy Share Image
On a certain scale, it does look like I do a lot. But that’s my day, all day long, sitting there wondering when I’m… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“There is no Weatherfax map on the Stella Lykes—only the barometer, the barographs, the teletypes from NOAA. The radar can see a storm, but… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Certainly, it is. Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving.… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“Good morning,” one of the soldiers said. “I’m Captain Joseph Walker and this is Sergeant James Vanetten. We are members of the One-Hundred-and-First Airborne… — Shafter Bailey Copy Share Image
When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult. — Cristiano Ronaldo Copy Share Image
Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.” — Phindiwe Nkosi Copy Share Image
My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
