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 ~
I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?
~By Lucinda Williams ~
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
~By Francis Schaeffer ~
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 ~
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
~By Douglas Haig ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.
~By Jonathan Dimbleby ~
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 ~
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 ~
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. ~
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 ~
Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.
~By Tracy Austin ~
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 ~
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 ~
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
~By William O. Douglas ~
This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.
~By Gerard Arpey ~
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 ~
The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.
~By Dick Ebersol ~
I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.
~By Jay London ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.
~By Robert Hass ~
'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 ~
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 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 ~
My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.
~By Mark Spitz ~
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.
~By Morrie Schwartz ~
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 ~
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
~By Jesus Christ ~
People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.
~By Thomas Jane ~
City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
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 ~
Our loss was very heavy, especially in the officers. Capt. Sale, of Co. E, Duke's regt, was among the killed, making the third Capt. that has been killed in that company.
~By John H. Morgan ~
Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.
~By Russell Crowe ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
~By John Steinbeck ~
We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.
~By William Henry Ashley ~
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.
~By Kent Nerburn ~
I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.
~By Todd Solondz ~
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
Never floss with a stranger.
~By Joan Rivers ~
The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
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 ~
Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.
~By Tim Johnson ~
The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
~By Dan Quayle ~
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 ~
You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.
~By Steve Forbert ~
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
~By B. H. Liddell Hart ~
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 ~
It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.
~By Katharine Lee Bates ~
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 ~
I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.
~By Augusto Pinochet ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is only one goal. That's to keep working and keep flossing.
~By Red Buttons ~
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 ~
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 ~
Accept loss forever.
~By Jack Kerouac ~
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 ~
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
~By Anne Grant ~
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 ~
The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
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 ~
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
~By Penelope Lively ~
American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
~By Don McLean ~
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
~By Stefan Kanfer ~
This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.
~By Daniel Yergin ~
When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.
~By John Gray ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
~By Chilon ~
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.
~By Raj Kapoor ~
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 ~
Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.
~By Tori Amos ~
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 ~
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 attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.
~By Peter Stuyvesant ~
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 ~
Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.
~By Tim Bishop ~
The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.
~By Franjo Tudjman ~
Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
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 art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
~By Elizabeth Bishop ~
Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.
~By James Shirley ~
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 ~
I said to the almond tree, "Friend, speak to me of God," and the almond tree blossomed.
~By Nikos Kazantzakis ~
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