Loss Quotes

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.

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.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.

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

Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.

The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.

Accept loss forever.

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

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.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.

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

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.

I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.

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