They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.
~By John Pearson ~
The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.
~By Hugh Grant ~
My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.
~By James H. Breasted ~
We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
~By Martha Beck ~
My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.
~By Judy Collins ~
Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.
~By Robert James Graves ~
The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.
~By John Vinocur ~
The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
~By Montgomery Clift ~
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
~By Sarah Fielding ~
We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
~By Nancy Pelosi ~
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
~By Malcolm X ~
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.
~By Paul von Hindenburg ~
I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.
~By Steven Hatfill ~
The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience.
~By John George Nicolay ~
If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.
~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.
~By Martin Short ~
You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play.
~By Dixie Carter ~
For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
~By Lech Walesa ~
He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
~By Augustus Baldwin Longstreet ~
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.
~By Jared Diamond ~
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.
~By Gilbert White ~
At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.
~By Dave Reichert ~
The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.
~By Marilu Henner ~
The pain of retirement means loss.
~By John Murray ~
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?
~By Helen Hunt Jackson ~
The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.
~By Liv Tyler ~
Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.
~By Kenneth Koch ~
What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring.
~By Don Shula ~
Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters.
~By Sue Kelly ~
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
~By Walker Percy ~
When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries.
~By Kirstie Alley ~
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
~By Allen Klein ~
Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
~By James Hillman ~
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
~By Sydney Madwed ~
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
~By B. H. Liddell Hart ~
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
~By Winston Churchill ~
After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is a very risky vehicle, much more risky than even flying airplanes in combat.
~By Mark Kelly ~
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
~By John Steinbeck ~
I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.
~By Dave Reichert ~
But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.
~By Merton Miller ~
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
~By May Sarton ~
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
~By James Madison ~
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.
~By Christopher Gadsden ~
Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
~By Joseph Addison ~
In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.
~By Edward Bennett Williams ~
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~By Marcel Proust ~
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.
~By Mary Wortley ~
All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
~By Arthur Helps ~
However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.
~By Julian Clary ~
It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.
~By Katharine Lee Bates ~
Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.
~By Anne Grant ~
I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
~By Washington Irving ~
I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.
~By Graeme Murphy ~
I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.
~By Jim Gibbons ~
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
~By Doris Lessing ~
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.
~By John Grierson ~
For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
~By Michelle Pfeiffer ~
And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.
~By Birch Bayh ~
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
My work has typically been about finding a means to express memory and commemoration for loss and grief.
~By John Regan ~
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
~By Dennis Potter ~
The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.
~By Thomas Malory ~
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
~By Wendell Willkie ~
You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
~By Edward V. Lucas ~
When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
~By Adelbert von Chamisso ~
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.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
~By James Madison ~
The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss like they are talking about the weather, or a natural disaster like an earthquake.
~By Stephen F. Lynch ~
I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?
~By Lucinda Williams ~
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
~By Rachel Weisz ~
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
~By Penelope Lively ~
'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
~By Pedro Calderon de la Barca ~
I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.
~By Jay London ~
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
~By Jim Davis ~
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
~By James M. Barrie ~
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
~By Walter Anderson ~
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
~By Epicurus ~
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
~By Eldridge Cleaver ~
Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.
~By Pola Negri ~
I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.
~By Vanessa Hudgens ~
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
~By Denis Diderot ~
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
~By John Heywood ~
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
~By Annie Dillard ~
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