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 ~
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
~By Norman Cousins ~
The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
~By Jesus Christ ~
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 ~
For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.
~By Kim Campbell ~
We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.
~By Russell M. Nelson ~
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
~By Ikkyu Sojun ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.
~By Marlo Thomas ~
My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.
~By Mark Spitz ~
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
~By Epicurus ~
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 ~
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 ~
People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.
~By Mary McAleese ~
The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
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 ~
There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.
~By Tim Bishop ~
Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
~By Allen Klein ~
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 ~
Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.
~By Pol Pot ~
'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 ~
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.
~By Alexander Meiklejohn ~
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
~By Stefan Kanfer ~
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 ~
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 ~
The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.
~By Sally Ride ~
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
~By Lou Reed ~
I said to the almond tree, "Friend, speak to me of God," and the almond tree blossomed.
~By Nikos Kazantzakis ~
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 ~
When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.
~By Andrew Shue ~
If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.
~By Judd Gregg ~
American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
~By Don McLean ~
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
~By Gerard De Nerval ~
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
~By Augustus Hare ~
An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.
~By Lawrence R. Klein ~
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 ~
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 ~
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
~By Vince Cable ~
The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
~By Dan Quayle ~
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 ~
Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.
~By Kamisese Mara ~
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately need to address the frustration, the loss and the despair that drive some to these actions.
~By King Hussein I ~
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 ~
Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.
~By John Warner ~
A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.
~By Phil Donahue ~
I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.
~By John Dingell ~
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 ~
Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
~By Edith Sitwell ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
~By Montgomery Clift ~
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
~By Mary Pickford ~
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
~By Norman Cousins ~
The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
~By Auguste Rodin ~
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 new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.
~By Rosanne Cash ~
Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.
~By William Vickrey ~
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
~By B. H. Liddell Hart ~
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 ~
It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.
~By Tom Clancy ~
There is only one goal. That's to keep working and keep flossing.
~By Red Buttons ~
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 ~
The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.
~By Leonid Andreyev ~
However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans.
~By Ruben Hinojosa ~
To win you have to risk loss.
~By Jean-Claude Killy ~
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 will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.
~By Robert Torricelli ~
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 ~
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?
~By Lucinda Williams ~
What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.
~By Lisa Bonet ~
You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.
~By Steve Forbert ~
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 ~
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 ~
Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
~By Karl Rove ~
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 ~
I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.
~By Jhumpa Lahiri ~
A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
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 ~
Never floss with a stranger.
~By Joan Rivers ~
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 ~
The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
~By Jack Youngblood ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature.
~By Gerard De Nerval ~
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