Loss Quotes - Page 38

• The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

  Dan Quayle

  Silly, Dumb, Politics

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• A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace or compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be.

  Oliver Sacks

  Mean, Identity, Excess

  Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Blow, Enemy

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• The one thing I learned about myself going back and watching tapes of all the losses that we've had is that I'm physically capable of doing this and dominating the game, but the mental part was not there. I don't know if it comes with age, but I had to learn to be mentally tough.

  Lisa Leslie

  Basketball, Games, Age

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• The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Successful, Years

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• When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Song, Rap

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• Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Fighting, Buddhism

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.23, Random House

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• No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.

  William Cowper

  Cat, Reflection, Hilarity

  "The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations: With a Life of the Author".

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• If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible.

  Bernard Baruch

  Mistake, Failure, Cutting

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1970). “Baruch: My own story”

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• The AXA and New York Life settlements are important building blocks not only toward seeking financial recovery for the losses resulting from the Armenian Genocide but also in our ultimate goal, which is for Turkey and the US to officially acknowledge the genocide.

  Mark Geragos

  New York, Block, Recovery

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• A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments of grief, loss, and change. Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched. Wisdom is alive only as long as it is lived, understanding is liberating only as long as it is applied.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Grief, Heart

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• I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).

  Dolly Parton

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

  Thucydides

  Beautiful, Simple, Greek

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• Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative silence blurs and confuses our identity, and we lapse into daydreams or diffuse anxieties. Positive silence pulls us together and makes us realize who we are, who we might be, and the distance between these two.

  Thomas Merton

  Distance, Discovery, Self

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.45, Macmillan

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• They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

  Francis Marion Crawford

  Memorial Day, Causes, Graves

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• Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Sincerity

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.153

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• The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
  As sages in all times assert;
  The happy man's without a shirt.

  John Heywood

  Happiness, Laughter, Cutting

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.

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• I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Lakes, Water

  "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" l. 10 (1893)

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• 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.

  Mary Pickford

  Cutting, Men, Views

  Mary Pickford (1955). “Sunshine and shadow”

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• Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Cutting, Humanity, May

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1848). “The popular works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, tr., with a memoir of the author by W. Smith”, p.218

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• The Art of Success . . . Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm. . . . Success is having the courage to meet failure without being defeated. It is refusing to let present loss interfere with your long-range goal. . . . Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Art, Honesty, Attitude

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• True it is, that he who has taken off his affection from the goods of this world has already sold all, and has made himself poor, so far as depends upon himself; but the fruit and the proof of this spiritual poverty are, patiently to endure the loss of worldly goods, and without any regret, when it pleases our heavenly Father that we should be despoiled of them.

  John Calvin

  Spiritual, Regret, Father

  "Letters of John Calvin".

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• [In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.

  Anton Chekhov

  Death, Lying, Science

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1929). “The Works of Anton Chekhov”

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• Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.

  Mason Cooley

  Farewell

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• There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.

  John Updike

  Betrayal, Sacrifice, Static

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