Top 1200 Devastating Loss Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Climate change is real, caused by human activity and already devastating our nation and planet. The United States must lead the world in combating climate change and transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels and toward energy efficiency and sustainability.

I do not believe that we have to destroy our economy in order to protect our environment. And especially what these programs are asking us to pass that will do nothing to help the environment, but will be devastating for our economy.

Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.

Do you remember the classic example of chutzpah? It's the young man who kills his parents and then asks the judge for mercy on the grounds that he's an orphan. The Bush administration's updated version of that was starting a wholly illegal, immoral, and devastating war and then dismissing all kinds of criticism of its action on the grounds that 'we're at war.

I look upon The Animals, they were a great band initially, we left our mark, but thing was it was a band that couldn't live up to its name so I soldiered on. On one level, it was devastating for a while. On another level, maybe I should thank them for helping me make my own way in my own career.

Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.

The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.

To me, the most terrifying form of warfare would be if there was some simultaneous cyber attack on our grid, on the banking system, and on our transportation system. That would be quite a devastating thing, and yet in theory, absent some real protective measures, that could happen.

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

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine

India has been at the greatest loss because governments were run only for elections.

Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalization is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.

To battle the odds - loss of interest, no funding, discouragement - requires someone who doesn't give up.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

I used to think weight loss happens quickly, but it has taken a lot of time. There is no secret to it.

To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.

I would be a president for all of the people, African- Americans, the inner cities. Devastating what's happening to our inner cities. She's been talking about it for years. As usual, she talks about it, nothing happens. She doesn't get it done.

My heart goes out to anyone suffering a loss... be that physical, emotional, or financial, etc.

You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.

I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show!

My plans are to avenge my loss against Volkan Oezdemir and get the UFC title.

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

Smallpox can be personally devastating. After a 14-day incubation period, patients experience high fevers, headaches, and sometimes severe abdominal pain. A rash resembling chicken pox appears in the mouth and throat, face, and forearms, and spreads to the trunk and legs. As patients recover, scabs break and pitted scars appear.

I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal.

A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water vapor than cold, the atmosphere over the oceans is a shocking five percent wetter, loading the dice for devastating floods.

A nuclear Iran is a - a dramatic and - and devastating potential threat to the world and to America. And - and all our efforts should be focused on making that our first priority or keeping them from having that nuclear capacity our first priority.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

Claudia Rankine's book-length poem 'Citizen' was nominated for National Book Critics Circle awards in the categories of poetry and criticism. It is one of the most devastating takes on American culture I have read in a long time, laying bare the stakes of being black in a country long ambivalent about our presence here.

Economic growth must be the central issue because it is only through growth that the devastating threat of national bankruptcy can be averted. Furthermore, it is only by reviving American economic growth that the West's global predominance can be sustained, and peace and freedom kept secure around the world.

Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at a loss.

Within a twelve or fourteen month period, I went through a divorce from my wife of 29 years, which is devastating emotionally and earthshaking as far as your whole world being turned upside-down. And within that same twelve month period, I left the Eagles.

My late wife - she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn't be in that room because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn't be able to take care of the kids after.

The worst loss in my career - the 2002 World Championship final against Peter Ebdon.

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.

weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

After every loss, you want to trade everybody. I've felt that way several times.

Everything we've been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong.

Hillary Clinton's loss has exposed the lack of Democratic power in this country at all levels.

Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

I started wearing wigs when I was younger and had a thyroid disease that made my hair fall out. It was devastating. I thought, 'I could either have an issue with this, or I could go to the store and buy a wig.' And then I fell in love with wearing them, and I stuck with it even after my hair came back.

For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.

I know that Israeli soldiers will do everything they can in order to avoid loss of innocent life.

I thought of the pillowcases as a symbol of love and loss, of retaining the memory of your loved one.

There's certainly a loss of connection with folks on the ground who I care for and love and I want to spend time with.

Sometimes you have to go through a total loss of inspiration to find what really inspires you the most.

I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a cafe.

It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral power of the people for their suppression. A far more serious danger lurks in the shirking of those responsibilities of citizenship, where the evil may not be so noticeable but is more insidious and likely to be more devastating.

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the solution.

We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.

New York is the perfect town for getting over a disappointment, a loss, or a broken heart.

For you see, the face of destiny or luck or god that gives us war also gives us other kinds of pain: the loss of health and youth; the loss of loved ones or of love; the fear that we will end our days alone. Some people suffer in peace the way others suffer in war. The special gift of that suffering, I have learned, is how to be strong while we are weak, how to be brave when we are afraid, how to be wise in the midst of confusion, and how to let go of that which we can no longer hold. In this way, anger can teach us forgiveness, hate can teach us love, and war can teach us peace.

At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?