Top 1200 Great Loss Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.

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

And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

Your skin is a barrier that protects you from environmental aggressors like pollution, bacteria and moisture loss.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?

Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.

My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.

You might be a redneck if...the most serious loss from the earthquake was your Conway Twitty record collection.

During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.

My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.

Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.

What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

We are all shocked and saddened by the devastating and untimely loss of Kimbo Slice, a beloved member of the Bellator family.

What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.

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

Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.

Dybala only lacks the belief that he is a great footballer. After his great experience at Palermo he had a great start with Juve and he did beautiful things.

If I find great material, or a great character, or a great director that wants to do something on TV, or whether it's in film, or whatever it is, man - as long as it's good, and on the level, I'm open to it.

I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.

Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.

The loss of courtship in modern days - like, people don't court anybody anymore. There's no beauty about it.

Loss of natural areas threatens our water supply, national security, farms, and health.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

People bemoan the loss of watercooler chat, but I think that there's more of that than ever. It's just that it's online.

Once I experienced that loss to Miesha, I wanted to get back in the cage and show that it was just a mistake.

When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell?

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home.

No lifetime is a loss if you've leaned something, because that learning stays with you. There is no such thing as a wasted life, if you have learned.

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.

I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.

Permanent weight loss means making small, manageable changes and sticking with them for life.

I have a suspicion, because if you look at the whole, all the [Star Wars ] movies, the backlog of every one of these movies, there's a lot of great stuff, but one might not be not as good with the writing in this or the acting in that or the directing in that, this has great actors, great directors, great script, and I really feel like we're gonna make the best one [movie with Young Han Solo].

I love my wife. We've had a few slings and arrows across the room, but I'm not prepared to give in, you know? People say she saved my life, but at the same time, I saved her life, as well, I think. She's a great mother, she's a great wife, she's a great worker, she's a great manager. She's just great.

I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.

I've been an NBA player, and a black man, for a long time, and I know how to take a loss.

When the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A total destruction of a culture.

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

The loss of a job may be the wake up-call needed to redeem the fire of your genius.

I was very insecure with my body because of my weight loss from the first two seasons of 'Jersey Shore.'

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?

Life is not just about profit and loss. One should follow one's conscience and listen to the voice of one's soul.

'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody who is participating in that.