Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Scelfo

Wins and losses right now are important, but in reality it's the least of my concerns. My concern is to make sure than we give hope to anyone watching us. I am not going to judge this season on wins and losses.

Chris Hadfield

Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.

Chris Hadfield

Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.

Gertrude Stein

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

Georges St-Pierre

You always recognize great champions... how they come back from a loss.

Herbert V. Prochnow

A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.

Henry David Thoreau

The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

Henry David Thoreau

I could lecture on dry oak leaves; I could, but who would hear me? If I were to try it on any large audience, I fear it would be no gain to them, and a positive loss to me. I should have behaved rudely toward my rustling friends.

Jillian Michaels

For years, I always thought it was hilarious that I was this fitness guru, because fitness was just a tool I utilized to help people improve their confidence. For me, it's never been about fitness. It's always been about helping to empower people.

Jillian Michaels

Every human being has gone through a tragedy of sorts. And the idea is that you have two paths you can take, you can find that alchemy that turns lead into gold, find that magic where you can see the loss as an entry point for learning and grow from it and become wiser and stronger.

Jillian Michaels

Both belly bulge and love handles are about excess body fat, not lack of muscle. Crunches and ab exercises are therefore not the solution. The best way to reduce these problem areas is to reduce your overall body fat percentage, and we all know that that requires diet and exercise.

Jill Scott

There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.

Jessica Lange

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

Jennifer Egan

Everyone we've lost, we'll find. Or they'll find us.

Gretel Ehrlich

Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

Groucho Marx

The foods that are recommended today are as palatable as a steady diet of wet blotters.

Graham Chapman

We come from nothing, we are going back to nothing-In the end what have we lost? Nothing!

Graham Greene

And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.

Gisele Bundchen

One thing leads to the other. Deforestation leads to climate change, which leads to ecosystem losses, which negatively impacts our livelihoods - it's a vicious cycle.

Gerald Celente

If you don’t prepare, you could lose everything. If you prepare for the worst and nothing happens, you’ve lost nothing.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God's earth is left more utterly unprotected and desolate than the slave in these circumstances.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.

Gregory Benford

Disintegration of structure equals information loss.

Gregory Maguire

Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.

Horace Bushnell

Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.

Hugh Prather

Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

Hannah Arendt

Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had to discover new ways of dealing with the past. In this he became a master when he discovered that the transmissibility of the past had been replaced by the citability and that in place of its authority there had arisen a strange power to settle down, piecemeal, in the present and to deprive it of ‘peace of mind,’ the mindless peace of complacency.

Hannah Arendt

If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend the life-span of mortal men…. There is perhaps no clearer testimony to the loss of the public realm in the modern age than the almost complete loss of authentic concern with immortality, a loss somewhat overshadowed by the simultaneous loss of the metaphysical concern with eternity.

Guy deBord

The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative.

Guy Finley

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.

Jacques Diouf

Low-income people everywhere will be at risk of food insecurity due to loss of assets, absence of alternative livelihood options and lack of adequate insurance coverage from extreme weather events.

Jack Youngblood

The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win

Jennifer Beals

It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.