Quotes about loss
loss hands oysters
Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' -- he held out both hands as though shifting a piece of furniture -- 'were going to be sitting there, and I was going to get down on one knee, and...and... Lauren Willig
loss get-over
There are some losses we never get over. Lauren Oliver
loss looks weight
Imagine a weight-loss program at the end of which, instead of better health, good looks, and hot romantic prospects, you die. Somalia had become just this kind of spa. P. J. O'Rourke
loss light darkness
Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not lost, yes, in spite of everything. But it had to pass through its own answerlessness, pass through frightful muting, pass through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech. It passed through and gave back no words for that which happened; yet it passed through this happening. Passed through and could come to light again, “enriched” by all this. Paul Celan
loss language spite
Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.
loss medical fit
But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so. Kay Redfield Jamison
loss years remembrance
St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow experience. For one who during her undergraduate years was trying to escape an inexplicable weariness and despair, St. Andrews was an amulet against all manner of longing and loss, a year of gravely held but joyous remembrances.
loss roots scary
Things that scare me are the loss of control, dealing with the unknown and the unseen. Something that's not supposed to be there and you don't know where it came from, or what it wants from you, or how to defend yourself against it. That's the root of the things I find scary. Oren Peli
loss accomplish-your-goals helping
You can't do it all yourself. Don't be afraid to rely on others to help you accomplish your goals. Oprah Winfrey
loss focus towers
My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss. Kiefer Sutherland
loss cards banking
I trust online banking. You know why? Because if somebody hacks into my account and defrauds my credit card company, or my online bank account, guess who takes the loss? The bank, not me. Kevin Mitnick
loss damage sun
No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses. Sun didn't stop using Solaris and DEC didn't stop using VMS.
loss manhattan down-and
Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties.
loss people everyday
In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life. Katie Leclerc
loss order play
In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.
loss ears four
I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear. It has four symptoms: ringing in the ear, pressure in the ear, fluctuating hearing loss, and attacks of vertigo.
loss people world
At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis. Margaret Chan
loss pulled took toughest
That (semifinal) loss had to be the toughest they had to endure. It took us a while to get into it but we pulled it out.
loss self oneness
Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss. Barbara Ehrenreich
loss gains your-loss
You learn more from your losses, than from your gains. Paul Tudor Jones
loss sorrow
I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.
loss cutting men
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy. Mary Pickford
loss years rivers
Every year everything I have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side is salvation Mary Oliver
loss echoes identity
Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity. Mary Catherine Bateson
loss voice good-woman
How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses. Philip Massinger
loss hearing terrible
Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired. Pete Townshend
loss recipes unemployment
History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss. Pete Sessions
loss doubt pakistan
Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society. Pervez Musharraf
loss emotional television
Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over & over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else. Paulo Coelho
loss space trying
When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.
loss difficult-situations faces
When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.
loss happy-life views
When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of happier life for the second. Therefore, if killing the hemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view, be right to kill him. Peter Singer
loss understanding balance
Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets. Peter Lynch