Loss Quotes - Page 33

• No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

  Ellen Terry

  Skills, Actresses, Youth

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of as easily.

  Ally Condie

  Mother, Fighting, Feelings

  Ally Condie (2011). “Crossed”, p.117, Penguin UK

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• 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.

  Neil McDonald

  Freedom, Government, Safety

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• Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

  Wendell Willkie

  Love, Freedom, Hate

  Wendell Lewis Willkie (1943). “One World”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the shifting tonalities of light that transform the domestic and ordinary into the strange and extraordinary that, combined with tenderness of address, approach the worshipful and make a number of these poems so moving and distinctive.

  August Kleinzahler

  Moving, Motherhood, Light

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• 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

  Gavin Newsom

  Government, Order, Cities

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• 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.

  Dave Reichert

  Country, Grateful, Sacrifice

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• Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Pain, Lying, Heaven

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• After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation.

  Jules Ferry

  Pride, Victory, Needs

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• A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible!

  Darren Shan

  Pain, Betrayal, Hate

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• All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking

  Robert Hass

  Thinking

  Robert Hass (1979). “Five American poets: Robert Hass, John Matthias, James McMichael, John Peck, Robert Pinsky”, Persea Books

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• Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Acceptance, Individual, Social

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• Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through

  A. R. Ammons

  Grief, Errors, Savages

  A.R. Ammons (2013). “Basura y otros poemas”, p.20, LUMEN

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• A venture not accomplished is loss; working together towards success is VICTORY!

  Mark Edward

  Victory, Working Together, Venture

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• In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers, and other entities that are the remnants of loss and dispossession in the law. Dogs and people are abundantly present here, even as the legal fictions they are made to inhabit are exposed with acid lucidity. These are hard histories made readable by Dayan's precious acts of writing.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Dog, Book, Writing

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• Perhaps more to the point for TBTF (Too Big To Fail bank), if a SIFI (Systemically Important Financial Institution) does fail I have little doubt that private investors will in fact bear the losses-even if this leads to an outcome that is messier and more costly to society than we would ideally like. Dodd-Frank is very clear in saying that the Federal Reserve and other regulators cannot use their emergency authorities to bail out an individual failing institution

  Jeremy C. Stein

  Political, Doubt, Important

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• The death of Walt Disney is a loss to all the people of the world. In everything he did, Walt had an intuitive way of reaching out and touching the hearts and mind of young and old alike. His entertainment was an international language.
  For more than 40 years, people have looked to Walt Disney for the finest quality in family entertainment. There is no way to replace Walt Disney. He was an extraordinary man. Perhaps there will never be another like him… The world will always be a better place because Walt Disney was its master showman.

  Roy O. Disney

  Heart, Men, Years

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• We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Profit, Continuing

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• Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Suffering, Substance, Body

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.74, Vintage

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• The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Country, Food, Hands

  Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2004). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.18, Penguin UK

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• Never blame another person for your personal choices - you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.

  Caroline Myss

  Recovery, Choices, Decision

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• In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether it compensates the soldier more or less abundantly for the loss of time that he suffers from his military-service obligation.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Military, Sacrifice, Blood

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• Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.

  Bill Crawford

  Inadequacy

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• Let no one pray that they know not sorrow,
  Let no soul ask to be free from pain,
  For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow,
  And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.
  Through want of a thing does its worth redouble,
  Through hunger's pangs does the feast content,
  And only the heart that has harboured trouble
  Can fully rejoice when joy is sent.
  Let no one shrink from the bitter tonics
  Of grief, and yearning, and need, and strife,
  For the rarest chords in the soul's harmonics
  Are found in the minor strains of life.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sweet, Pain, Grief

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Life's Harmonies”

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• And I thought 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.

  Birch Bayh

  People, World, Enthusiasm

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