Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Alexander

We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial.

Christine Feehan

Maybe you are already lost and just do not know it.

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

Isabel Allende

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

Irving Kirsch

Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an illness at all. Often, it can be a normal reaction to abnormal situations. Poverty, unemployment, and the loss of loved ones can make people depressed, and these social and situational causes of depression cannot be changed by drugs.

Dick Bennett

He totally lost his composure. He totally played into their hands. He had been playing so well.

He told me that he lost it but that he didn't snap.

He's lost his two children. He lost his oldest daughter. He lost his wife.

Jeanette Winterson

Why is the measure of love loss?

Jeanette Winterson

I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persuade us of good fortune, when all the while the glass is emptying.

Jennifer Hudson

I'm prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar! I hope it has inspired people.

George S. Patton

I am sure that if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror or a corpse, he is sure to win. There is no doubt of that. Defeat is not due to losses but to the destruction of the Soul of the leaders-the 'live to fight another day' doctrine.

George Saunders

I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of control. Which isn't exactly right, because I didn't know what happened when you did drugs.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops? If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Friedrich Nietzsche

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

Gary Larson

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

Erica Jong

If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.

Erica Jong

Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

Eric Cantor

Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

Eric Clapton

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

Eoin Colfer

We lost the crickets.

Emma Forrest

He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.

Harrison Ford

The loss of anonymity is something that nobody can prepare you for. When it happened, I recognized that I'd lost one of the most valuable things in life. To this day, I'm not all that happy about it

Grace Slick

Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both.

Ozzie Guillen

How can you be a choker or a loser when you've won 91 games?

John Gibbons

He's our closer. He's a big part of our team. You win together, you lose together.

Brad Jacobs

I don't really see, if he were unfortunately to lose Saturday night, I don't think he would come back.

Kay Granger

I don't know how you can sleep at night, ... You lost the battle.

John Hammond

I don't know how things get lost in translation. But I know they do.

I didn't think about losing my spot in the rotation. I did it for winning the game, for the manager and for the team.

I didn't know what else to do. I lost everything.

Jack Canfield

I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationship, weight-loss, being a millionaire, impacting the culture, changing society, whatever it might be, it might be homelessness, whatever, but lately I've realized that success is "fulfilling your soul's purpose."

J. D. Salinger

I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much about.