Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

That's a big loss there, and it's disappointing for him, too. It's his senior year.

That's a costly loss and we'll miss him.

It wasn't a win, but it wasn't a loss either.

No loss is easy. Not in my house.

It's a loss for the voters of Florida.

Joe Namath

You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.

Jodi Picoult

You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.

Jodi Picoult

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

John Grierson

My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.

Patti Smith

I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.

Mohamed El-Erian

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

Mindy Kaling

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

Kim Campbell

For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

P. J. O'Rourke

The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

Marya Mannes

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.