Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
If you can't take a small loss, sooner or later you will take the mother of all losses.
Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.
Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.
I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.
But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.
Here's the secret to weight loss: It's all about crowding out, not cutting out.
Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!
The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is tha life actually goes on.
Small business people are people with goals and values that can't be calculated on a profit and loss statement.
One pitch can be the difference between a win and a loss, an error could be the difference.
It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation.
Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.
Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.
If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
Although our love never dies, the pain of our loss can eventually dissolve.
The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.
We have seen levee breaks and flooding in the wake of storms, some of which have caused the loss of life, and USDA is ready to assist in any way we can.
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.
Success in life comes to those who simply refuse to give up; individuals with vision so strong that obstacles, failure and loss only act as teachings
[John] Hughes is a great loss, I think. He was the first filmmaker that could look at someone who was young without seeing them as being less.
I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry.
What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
When you are defending your title at any point in your career, a loss can be fatal.
If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
If they don't want to do it, that's their loss. If U.S. TV don't want to cover me, I can't beat myself up.
Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable.
If I'm not touring I'd just be at home, just driving - I'm kind of at a loss for how that stuff works.
He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either.
Talking about the loss of my parents... that was really, really difficult to go through.
Three Lions' is a song about loss: about the fact that England mainly lose.
Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
You want to travel in a good mood; you don't want to be mad about a loss.
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
I do believe that great love brings with it the terror and possibility of great loss.
I will find the good in this loss. I will make something happen that wouldn't have happened otherwise.
Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.
The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.
We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies.
Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.
One death is too many - and with careful management and a lot of luck, the coronavirus sweeping the globe will be curbed, in terms of illness and loss of life.
All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.
It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.
What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.
When we are stirred to lament the loss of the gods, it is more than likely the gods who are doing the stirring.
One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
We can't get down on one loss or one bad defensive play. We gotta play through it.
A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.
I'm normally not at a loss of words but I am a little taken aback by what you're wearing; it's a little different.
It's fun living the life and traveling and getting to do things that I otherwise probably would never do but it comes with a cost of loss of privacy and being away from loved one a lot.
Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!
I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.
If it's all win-loss, then you do whatever you can to win and to make money and to beat the deal.
The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance.
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