Loss Quotes

I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.

Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

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

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to defeat the proletariat!

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

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

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages.

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

The pain of retirement means loss.

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

There's a huge emotional component to weight loss.

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

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

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

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.