Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynn Redgrave

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

Lynn Margulis

Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a wing, a fruit, a woody stem, or a claw appear. Mutations, in summary, tend to induce sickness, death, or deficiencies. No evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambiguous evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly admit an infirmity in the one sense which ought to be more perfect in me than others, a sense which I once possessed in the highest perfection, a perfection such as few in my profession enjoy or ever have enjoyed.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you. Oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing.

The magnitude of the loss when it comes to property is going to be overwhelmed by the magnitude of the loss of life,

A loss is a loss. We have to be ready to stop the big inning. We didn't stay away from it tonight.

Eric Hoffer

Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.

Eric Hoffer

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

You don't have to have 100 percent coverage, but you can't have a substantial loss in coverage. That is subject to interpretation.

Napoleon Hill

If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't.

Napoleon Hill

First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.

The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

Northrop Frye

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

Oriana Fallaci

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

Nouriel Roubini

But in the financial markets, without proper institutional rules, there's the law of the jungle - because there's greed! There's nothing wrong with greed, per se. It's not that people are more greedy now than they were 20 years ago. But greed has to be tempered, first, by fear of losses. So if you bail people out, there's less fear. And second, b prudential regulation and supervision to avoid certain excesses.

Nouriel Roubini

If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don't systematically bail out people who take excessive risks.

Nouriel Roubini

We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized,

Emile M. Cioran

We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.

Ellen Goodman

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

Ellen G. White

Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

Eric Schmidt

One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.

Emily Giffin

I will find the good in this loss. I will make something happen that wouldn't have happened otherwise.

Emily Dickinson

Then, as horizons step, Or noons report away,Without the formula of sound, It passes, and we stay:A quality of loss Affecting our content.

Emily Dickinson

Each that we lose takes a part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides.

Emily Dickinson

Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.

Jeremy Taylor

Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.

Brian Billick

Nothing rocks a team more than the loss of a starting quarterback.

It's really one we needed. Tough loss to Georges Valley the other night, we needed to come back and get a win, absolutely.

It's quite a loss with him gone. I didn't meet a person who didn't like him.

It's tough to take a loss like that. Physically, it seemed like they outmatched us.

It's tough to take a loss like that, ... Physically, it seemed like they outmatched us.