Top 1200 Loss Of A Friend Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

I'm an American, first and foremost, and I'm very proud - I said, I've said to my beloved friend and colleague John McCain, a friend of 25 years, "John, I love you, but I'm not just going to vote for you on the basis of our affection or friendship." And I've said to Barack Obama, "I admire you. I'll give you all the advice I can. But I'm not going to vote for you just because you're black." We have to move beyond this.

The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other - child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving from each other, each through his own pathway towards the goal-box of solitary death.

There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.

Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh, but it is the voice of a friend. Oh, there is something sublime in calm endurance, something sublime in the resolute, fixed purpose of suffering without complaining, which makes disappointment oftentimes better than success!

What you lose in the world will not be a loss to your soul.

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

A truth of the gospel is not a truth until you live it. You do not really believe in tithing until you pay it. The word of wisdom to you is not a truth of the gospel until you keep it. The Sabbath day is not a holy day unless you observe it. . . . A friend is not a friend unless you defend him.

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

Loss avoidance must be the cornerstone of your investment philosophy.

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

I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend-without a song.' So I keep singing a song.

Certain things will always hurt: rejection, or loss.

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

The avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome.

But America was built by optimists. Optimists like my friend Amanda, who recently started a small business. When she went to buy her website address-her first and last name-she found that someone already owned it, but wasn't using it. So my friend emailed the owner of the site to ask if she could buy it. The owner wrote back.

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

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

We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.

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

The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?

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

In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.

Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.

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

Most of my friends are into strange things I don't really understand - and with a few shameful exceptions I wish them all well. Who am I, after all, to tell some friend he shouldn't change his name to Oliver High, get rid of his family, and join a Satanism cult in Seattle? Or to argue with another friend who wants to buy a single-shot Remington Fireball so he can go out and shoot cops from a safe distance?

When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

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

Julia is one of the most loyal people who ever lived. Her best friend is her best friend from third grade, and her other best friends are her best friends from Northwestern. Once you're a pal, you're a pal for life with Jules. I'm not just flattering her because she's my wife.

There's no way to fake weight loss - you just kinda have to not eat.

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

Dealing with my first pro loss was the toughest adversity of my career.

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

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

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

Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.

Great teams work harder after a tough loss.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

I did record 'The Chronic' in 1992. The year was not a total loss.

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

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

The worst loss you've ever experienced is the greatest gift you can have.

Whenever someone great passes, all of us have a loss.

There's probably no loss bigger than losing one's own father.

Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire.

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

There's a loss of autonomy that comes from not being able to own the wealth you've earned.

I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

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

All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

I don't really notice the loss of one kilogram when I run, but I do when it's more than one.

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

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

There's no great loss without some small gain.

Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!

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

Um, there's a girl meeting her friend,' he went on. 'Her friend is giving her an ice-cream cone. Oh-it's dripping. Huh. It, uh, dripped on her...chest.' Iggy drew in a hissing breath. It's gonna stain for sure,' the Gasman said. 'That's chocolate.' Hmm,' Fang said, watching, the girl dab at her chest with a paper napkin.

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