Loss Quotes - Page 35

• I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

  Steven Hatfill

  Jobs, Lost Friendship, March

  "Text of Hatfill's Statement", www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• 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.

  Kim Campbell

  People, Lost Friendship, Drug

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

  Penelope Lively

  Thinking, Lost Friendship, Gains

  "'I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

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• Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Sex, Lost Friendship

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.100

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• You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

  Joseph Stalin

  Hair, Lost Friendship, Has Beens

  Joseph Stalin (1970). “Selected writings”

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• When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Lost Friendship, Belief

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

  Euripides

  Grief, Land, Lost Friendship

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• 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.

  Mike Figgis

  Moving, Lost Friendship, Able

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• Gain or loss, what is worse?

  Laozi

  Taoism, Gains

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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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• Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.

  Claire Cook

  Grief, Sadness, Suffering

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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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• I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness.

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Feelings, Teeth, Dresses

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.116, Penguin

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• Every minute that we lose will cost us great losses later that we will not be able to afford.

  Walter Model

  Cost, Able, Minutes

  "Generalfeldmarschall Model Biographie" by Walter Göriltz, (p. 93), 2012.

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• God is not at a loss when He moves to bring us back to Himself. He can woo or whip. He can draw or drive. He can work rapidly or slowly, as He pleases. In other words, He is free to be God! And in His own way, at His own pace, He brings us back.

  Tom Wells

  Moving, Pace, Way

  Tom Wells (1987). “Christian: Take Heart!: Truth about the Christian Life and Its Progress”, Banner of Truth

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• One of the things I am very aware of not having in my life is the love of my father. ...but I know now that it is hard to make up that loss in the life of a daughter.
  It's your dad who tells you that you are beautiful.
  Its your dad who picks you up over his head and carries you on his shoulders.
  It's your did who will fight the monsters under your bed.
  It's your dad who tells you that you are worth a lot, so don't settle for the first guy who tells you you're pretty.

  Sheila Walsh

  Beautiful, Daughter, Dad

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• Depression is a death within, a knowledge - terrifying - that you cannot resurrect yourself. Depression is loss of the vision that lets leaves breathe and fall, that lets the air smell of seed and soil. And there must be rage, yes I think there is rage toward such a severing, such a ragged-deep rupture with the world.

  Lauren Slater

  Fall, Thinking, Air

  Lauren Slater (2012). “Welcome to My Country”, p.129, Anchor

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• The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss like they are talking about the weather, or a natural disaster like an earthquake.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Jobs, Talking, Earthquakes

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• The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

  Marco Tempest

  Motivation, Inspiration, Magic

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• God’s power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Omnipotence, Joy, Understanding

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• The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully.

  Zhuge Liang

  Army, Enemy, Watches

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• 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.

  Sue Kelly

  Weather, Agriculture, Faces

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• A widening circle of researchers believes that the loss of natural habitat, or the disconnection from nature even when it is available, has enormous implications for human health and child development. They say the quality of exposure to nature affects our health at an almost cellular level.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Believe, Circles

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.41, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The occult powers may be possessed by soul, but if they are not used in the right way it is a loss rather than a gain.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Soul, May, Way

  Virchand Raghavji Gandhi (1993). “Religion and Philosophy of the Jainas”

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• It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

  Alice James

  Vulgarity Is, Trials, Reeds

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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