Quotes about loss
loss
Joe Johnson I thought we were on the verge, but a loss is a loss.
loss situation
What do you do in a situation like this? I'm at a loss for words.
loss
We've experienced a loss and so we now know what that's like.
loss needed tough
To come back after the tough loss in the first game, we needed that.
loss age way
Joan Anderson Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances.
losses maybe top whip
Dontrelle Willis I don't even know what WHIP means, ... They were so similar, I have no idea. Maybe because I had more losses than him. That's the only thing I can see off the top of my head.
loss
This was not our day; it was actually a very embarrassing loss for us.
loss bones heal
Tracy Morgan Bones heal, but the loss of my friend will never heal,
loss stuff tricky
Tori Amos The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.
loss complacent around-the-corner
Venus Williams You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
loss games losing
Venus Williams Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
loss simple weight
Valerie Bertinelli After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
loss lost-friendship benefits
Ulrich Beck Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
loss faces glimpse
Roger Angell Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.
loss intelligent past
Robert Reed A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never quite been able to shake it. This is facetious, on one level at least. There are telepaths in As I Lay Dying. But I think the most compelling thing for me is there are moments with him where I just feel these are not humans talking to each other. These are some hyper-intelligent, yet-to-be-born organisms. The way they look at the past without having any loss of knowledge everything that ever happened is still here.
loss united-states majority
Robert Torricelli I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.
loss light machines
Robert Smithson Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light.
loss exercise hands
Robert Quillen Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back
loss kissing years
Sarah Kane I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman who was never born I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet Everything passes Everything perishes Everything palls my thought walks away with a killing smile leaving discordant anxiety which roars in my soul No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope
loss people levels
Vince Young People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses.
loss mourn screens
Warren Beatty I mourn the loss of the gigantic screen, but I guess you can't have everything.
loss exercise thinking
Warren Buffett It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.
loss trying gains
Warren Buffett Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.
loss gains immortal
William Blake Every mortal loss is an immortal gain.
loss risk gains
Walker Percy Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.
loss identity age
Walker Percy The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.
loss thinking sight
Samuel Beckett The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.
loss men gains
Samuel Taylor Coleridge What is one man's gain is another's loss.
loss way emergencies
Sally Ride The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.
loss thinking matter
Salman Rushdie You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.
loss privacy deals
Wesley Snipes No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.
loss effort environmental
Wangari Maathai The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss of biodiversity and topsoil, accelerates, causing development efforts to falter.