Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.
~By Yoshida Kenko ~
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
~By Douglas Haig ~
The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
~By Mark Van Doren ~
Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.
~By Marion Ross ~
I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.
~By Mike Figgis ~
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 ~
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
~By Epicurus ~
Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
~By Eric Clapton ~
What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?
~By William Broome ~
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.
~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.
~By Katharine Lee Bates ~
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 ~
You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.
~By Steve Forbert ~
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
~By Marguerite Young ~
I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.
~By Raj Kapoor ~
Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!
~By Kelly Clarkson ~
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~By Anais Nin ~
A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.
~By Andrew Shue ~
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.
~By Charles Francis Richter ~
If I win seven tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.
~By Chris Evert ~
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~By Anais Nin ~
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
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 ~
As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.
~By Steve Forbes ~
And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.
~By Thomas Malory ~
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
~By Russell Baker ~
I don't think when people sign up for a life of doing something they love to do they should have to sign up for a complete loss of privacy. I understand a little loss of privacy coming with the job.
~By Sarah Chalke ~
On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
~By Tom Lantos ~
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
~By James Callaghan ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Ahmed Chalabi ~
The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.
~By Edward Bennett Williams ~
He was a top man and a good professional. He was one of those who you know will never play a trick and you can ask him to do anything for you and he will. An unassuming man and a great loss to us all.
~By Geoffrey Boycott ~
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 ~
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 ~
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
~By Saint Basil ~
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
~By Jules Renard ~
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 ~
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
~By Smedley Butler ~
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 National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market.
~By Gary Miller ~
I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
~By Alice Hoffman ~
I do not send their Lordships the particulars of our losses and damages by this, as it would take me much time; and I am willing none should be lost in letting them know an event of such consequence.
~By John Byng ~
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 ~
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 ~
Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.
~By Pete Waterman ~
As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
~By Albert Bushnell Hart ~
There is only one goal. That's to keep working and keep flossing.
~By Red Buttons ~
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
~By Mary Wortley Montagu ~
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
~By Georg Solti ~
The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.
~By Thomas Hearns ~
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 ~
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
~By Stefan Kanfer ~
A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.
~By Jesse Livermore ~
When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.
~By Margaret Mahy ~
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
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 ~
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
~By Thucydides ~
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
~By Jean Paul ~
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 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 ~
Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature.
~By Gerard De Nerval ~
April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
~By E. Y. Harburg ~
Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.
~By John Fowles ~
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
~By Max Muller ~
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 ~
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
~By Wendell L. Wilkie ~
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
~By e. e. cummings ~
Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.
~By Marion Ross ~
Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.
~By Tracy Austin ~
The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.
~By Hart Crane ~
I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.
~By Steven Hatfill ~
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
~By Ikkyu Sojun ~
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
~By Marya Mannes ~
I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.
~By Robert Torricelli ~
I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
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 ~
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
~By Robert Frost ~
I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
~By Dave Reichert ~
Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
~By Allen Klein ~
Accept loss forever.
~By Jack Kerouac ~
William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.
~By Glenn Ford ~
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 ~
One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.
~By Mary Gordon ~
The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you have a lot of job gains, but you also have job loss.
~By Alexis Herman ~
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.
~By Marion Ross ~
When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
~By Voltaire ~
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
~By Al Gore ~
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