You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.
~By James Sinegal ~
Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
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 ~
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 ~
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
~By Lou Reed ~
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 ~
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
~By Democritus ~
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
~By Douglas Haig ~
It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.
~By Vin Diesel ~
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 ~
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 ~
After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.
~By Morrie Schwartz ~
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
~By Norman Cousins ~
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
~By Shakti Gawain ~
Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic.
~By Jami Gertz ~
But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. I'll also put on a lip gloss or lip balm. And I always brush my eyebrows. I have very thick eyebrows - I'm just now starting to thin them out a bit.
~By Denise Richards ~
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 ~
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
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 ~
If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
~By Jack Welch ~
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
~By John Heywood ~
President Obama is making the tough decisions to get our country going in the right direction, has taken our economy from job losses to 15 straight months of job gains, cut taxes 26 times, and focused like a laser on getting the middle class back on its feet while those campaigning to replace him have failed to show they can lead on these issues.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
~By James Madison ~
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Lipgloss is my calling!
~By Vanessa Hudgens ~
I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.
~By Robert Torricelli ~
There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.
~By William C. Bryant ~
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 ~
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 ~
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.
~By Leonid Andreyev ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
~By Alan K. Simpson ~
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 ~
Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
~By Charles J. Givens ~
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 ~
My work has typically been about finding a means to express memory and commemoration for loss and grief.
~By John Regan ~
The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By David F. Houston ~
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 ~
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
~By Caleb Carr ~
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 ~
My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.
~By Mark Spitz ~
Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don't play well, we might as well have lost the game.
~By Jason Williams ~
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 ~
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
~By Hilaire Belloc ~
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
~By Annie Dillard ~
But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.
~By George Ripley ~
The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.
~By Anne Perry ~
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
~By Stefan Kanfer ~
The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.
~By Thomas Hearns ~
With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
~By Larry Holmes ~
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 think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.
~By Ted Dexter ~
I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.
~By Steven Hatfill ~
Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
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 ~
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~By Marcel Proust ~
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 ~
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
~By Cao Yu ~
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.
~By Nancy Pelosi ~
One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.
~By Mary Gordon ~
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
~By Francis Bacon ~
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 ~
The pain of retirement means loss.
~By John Murray ~
When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
~By Chilon ~
It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
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 ~
Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.
~By Jim Clyburn ~
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 ~
We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.
~By Nong Duc Manh ~
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 ~
There is only one goal. That's to keep working and keep flossing.
~By Red Buttons ~
When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
~By Paul Gauguin ~
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
~By Epictetus ~
I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it.
~By Paul Darrow ~
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.
~By John Gray ~
I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.
~By Daniel Libeskind ~
After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.
~By William Henry Ashley ~
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 ~
There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.
~By Terence Fisher ~
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 ~
Accept loss forever.
~By Jack Kerouac ~
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.
~By Robin Gibb ~
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
~By Epictetus ~
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