Quotes about los
lost left-behind behinds
I was searching all the time for something that I'd never lost or left behind. Jim Croce
loss known
Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known. Jiddu Krishnamurti
lost-love humor heart
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. Jessamyn West
loss grandchildren ideas
A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times. The very idea that a human being's worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world where much of life is lived on the Collaborative Commons. Jeremy Rifkin
lost-everything reason lost
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason Gilbert K. Chesterton
loss somewhere-else feelings
Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind. Fred Rogers
loss life-is terrible
Every loss of life is terrible. George H. W. Bush
loss funeral darkness
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself. Harold Brodkey
loss victory quality
It's not the victories that count to me. It's the quality of how you deliver your losses and the quality of how you deliver your victories. Greg Norman
loss animal years
Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year.... Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators. Jim Butcher
lost
I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one.
lost left
In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts Hubert H. Humphrey
loss men choices
Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims. Honore de Balzac
loss secret crime
The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.
loss winning losing
Winners have to absorb losses. Ice T
losing thrown throws whenever
He always is going to say something about the losing streak. Whenever he remembers, he comes and throws it at us. He's even thrown it at us when we're in the huddle sometimes.
lost loved
He called me and said he loved me. I just lost it.
lost pitches seventh
He only had 80 pitches going into the seventh inning, he was going pretty good. But then he lost it, it went away quickly.
loss satisfaction kind
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. Ivan Illich
loss choices may
We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss. Isaiah Berlin
loss perfect choices
The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is a truism--but conceptually incoherent. ......Some among the great goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth. We are doomed to choose, and every choice may entail an irreparable loss.
loss justice choices
Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when they are incompatible, they cannot all be attained, choices must be made, sometimes tragic losses accepted in the pursuit of some preferred ultimate end.
loss thinking numbers
In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown. This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency. Irvin D. Yalom
loss born grows
Some of us are born with a sense of loss. It is not acquired as we grow. It is already there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives. Gloria Vanderbilt
loss source
And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change. James Frey
lost-love three causes
But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down to one of three things: money, sickness, love lost.
loss british-soldiers citizens
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either. James Callaghan
lost wander
Not everyone who wanders is lost. J. R. R. Tolkien
loss men loses
No man can lose what he never had. Izaak Walton
lost pens misused
A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
loss thinking people
What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
loss needs opinion
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
lost-love fighting suffering
When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it. Ian Mcewan