Top 1200 His Loss Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.

The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.

The only possible recourse a baby has when his screams are ignored is to repress his distress, which is tantamount to mutilating his soul, for the result is an interference with his ability to feel, to be aware, and to remember.

No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have

Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.

No amount of temporal success can compensate for the loss of God's approval.

When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from his country to save his skin and left the millions of his countrymen to struggle through a terrible war that he brought upon them because of his political ignorance and his racial disloyalty.

There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.

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

I bemoaned the pending loss of Obamacare/the Affordable Care Act.

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.

Great teams work harder after a tough loss.

Certain things will always hurt: rejection, or loss.

Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.

It is the duty of a prudent minister of God to hold his ministry in honor and to see to it that it is respected by those who are in his charge. Moreoever, it is the duty of a faithful minister not to exceed his powers and not to abuse his office in pride, but, rather, to administer it for the benefit of his subjects.

Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.

The problem at Wimbledon seems to be that the club has suffered a loss of complacency.

The face of the Son of God, who, instead of accepting the sacrifice of one of his creatures to satisfy his justice or support his dignity, gave himself utterly unto them, and therein to the Father by doing his lovely will; who suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their suffering might be like his, and lead them up to his perfection.

God takes great delight in surprising His people with His goodness. He delights in being there for us, in coming through for us. He loves to give us the good gifts of His provision and grace that reveal to us His nature and His character.

If Obama came by his liberalism in the faculty lounge, then sure, he can see it hasn't worked, and he can modify it. But if Obama got his formative ideas when he was very young, and if they are the result of his traumatic relationship with his father, then they are built into his psyche.

His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That all his characters were himself.

He [Prince] changed the world!!A true visionary.What a loss.I'm devastated.

A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and daughters are clasped to your breast.

No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or otherwise, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or his property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest shovel into his stores.

That should be regarded as a loss, which is won at the expense of our reputation.

A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

Pressed up against him, I can feel the thud of his heart against mine, his ribcase expanding and contracting rapidly against my chest, the warm whisper of his breath tickling the side of my neck, the brush of his leg against my thigh. Resting my arms on his shoulders, I pull back a little to get a look at his face. But he isn't smiling any more.

The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.

Homeland is something one becomes aware of only through its loss.

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

I'm hyper-focused on loss. But I know it's just the impermanence of being here.

How families deal with loss, everyone has their own process.

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.

Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire.

Loss is something that I think is ultimately the number one struggle for humans.

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.

Loss is a part of life, unfortunately, and you've got to just deal with it.

Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.

The benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not unwittingly encouraged to compete to possess him. Nor are his birthparents punished and banished from a place in his life.

He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.'

There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.

My aim is sustainable fat loss and so I've opted for carb cycling.

Every fight is a learning experience, whether it's a win or a loss.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.

That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.

We can take a 'It was hard to get there.' But we ain't taking no loss. We're going to win.

The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that we dream of others listening, his face seeming to reflect on every thing said. He did not start forward to seize on my slightest pause, to assert an understanding of something before the thought was finished, or to argue with a swift, irresistible impulse -- the things which often make dialogue impossible. And after a long interval he said, 'I want you. I want you more than anything in the world.

As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.

But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

There is a fear of innovation because people are afraid of job loss.