Loss Quotes

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.

If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.

One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

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.

You're always going to survive the pain of loss. I can live with that confidence inside of me.

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Our loss was very heavy, especially in the officers. Capt. Sale, of Co. E, Duke's regt, was among the killed, making the third Capt. that has been killed in that company.

Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.