Top 1200 Great Loss Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.

California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.

But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.

Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophic data loss can happen to you - one worm or Trojan is all it takes.

I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.

Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.

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

They say things happen in three. I won with the great Kobe, the great D-Wade and now it's my job to win one with the great LeBron James. We have everything in place. We just got to get it done.

The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for our descendants who have mastered the energy of this technology. So if one day, somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great granddaughter, don't slam the door.

The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.

'History Is All You Left Me' is about the loss of your first love and how you move on beyond that and if you can.

I had a great job and I lost it, but I'm doing great now, I have a great family, my daughters all live with me. Did I have a setback? Absolutely, but I don't look at it like a ruined my life.

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

Regardless of what people think of the WWE, we're great at storylines; we're great at drawing money. We're great at causing controversy, and when the other sports do it, they usually do better. It keeps it interesting and makes it fun for the fans.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style - as did The Beatles and the Stones - and I enjoyed projecting that. Image, attitude, great music and great lyrics - that was the '60s.

Ann Taylor - great name, great real estate, shitty business. Gap -great name, great real estate, declining business. J.Crew - Hellooo? Great name, better fashion image than the Gap.

The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.

I was born in Grimsby and always lived around there, but it's died a death because of the loss of the fishing industry.

If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

Christian hedonists don't discount suffering, they just don't give up until they find the gain in loss.

My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss.

More cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution. . .than to anything else.

To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.

Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it.

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

Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable, Brother Zachariah to Clary Fray

After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation.

I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.

What would a loss of confidence in the dollar actually look like? Gold going absolutely nuts.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

The stereotype of aging as a progressive loss of function is generally true only for people who stop functioning.

[after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often hits with full force.

Phil Neville could be on the road to one day, maybe, becoming the England manager. I know him closely. He was a great captain, a great leader. He's had great experience.

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.

I've done a lot of drama, and as a lifestyle, going to work and laughing every day is just great. It's great for your mental health, and it's great for setting up a nice year.

That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.

Everyone surrounding you has gone through similar things. The search for love or the desire to have a family or the loss of a child.

In a world of such beauty as birds in flight, surely I can come to feel at home again, even after my loss.

When you have a major loss in your life, the first thing you need to do is tell God exactly how you feel.

When you suffer a tragedy, the secondary loss of having it bleed into other areas of your life is so real.

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.

The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against our sapient great-great-grandparents' abilities to build more elaborate mental models and orchestrate their bodies' movements in more sophisticated ways.

My favorite movie out of the old movies was 'Escape to Witch Mountain.' We were working with horses and bears, and when you have a great friend like Ike and a great director... it was a great experience.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

All my career, I've played in great teams - Marseille was a great team, Arsenal was a great thing, but we never won a trophy. With Manchester City, first year, it happened, and it was just a big relief.

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

Nothing puts peace in its proper perspective better than the loss of personal liberty first.

Whenever I have asked something from God and worked hard for it, I have always got it, be it my Indian citizenship or my weight loss.

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.

If I win seven tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

If your rookie can affect a win or a loss early, then his ceiling is going to be crazy.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.