Loss Quotes - Page 19

• I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.

  Clive Barker

  Dog, Animal, Littles

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• No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

  Alexander Pope

  Dog, Husband, Heaven

  Alexander Pope (2002). “Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.76, Routledge

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• The best way to get over a dog's death is to get another soon.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dog, Way, Get Over

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• Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.

  Barry Williams

  Dog, Flower, Moving

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• It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

  Tennessee Williams

  Dog, Terrible, Old Woman

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Freedom, Long, People

  The New York Times, September 26, 1982.

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• The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Circles, Confusion, Departed

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• It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Political, Leaving

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.433, Penguin

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• Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.

  Allan H. Meltzer

  Mind, Liberty, Libertarian

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• So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the struggle. Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this as of many many other evils ... the quarrel between North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.

  Charles Dickens

  Lying, Party, Struggle

  Charles Dickens (1862). “All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal”, p.330

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• To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered what they had heard about astronomy, and the great size and distance and possible habitation of those orbs. ... [We] persuade ourselves that the power of the starry heavens lies in the suggestion of astronomical facts.

  George Santayana

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has decreased from 40 to 1 percent in the last four decades. Concurrently, the amount of rainfall has declined to the point where the country is rapidly becoming a wasteland.

  Al Gore

  Country, Science, Land

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.107, Routledge

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• Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There is progress of California toward building new construction according to earthquake-resistant design. We would have less reason to ask for earthquake prediction if this was universal.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Life, Science, Earthquakes

  Earthquake information bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. 8, 1980.

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• If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.

  Vernon Howard

  Thinking, Opposites, Ideas

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• St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving the Creator for the sake of the creature. What punishment would that subject deserve who, while his king was giving him a command, contemptuously turned his back upon him to go and transgress his orders? This is what the sinner does; and this is punished in hell with the pain of loss, that is, the loss of God, a punishment richly deserved by him who in this life turns his back upon his sovereign good.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Kings, Pain, Order

  Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Aeterna Press (2016). “The Way of Salvation and of Perfection”, p.44, Aeterna Press

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• When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.

  Edmund Burke

  Taken, Opinion, Ancient

  Edmund Burke (1868). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790”, p.92

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• What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Evil, Meditation, Swallowing

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• World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always carry with us.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Attitude, Compassion

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.94, Penguin

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• Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Grief, Compassion

  'Timon Of Athens' act 5, sc. 1, l. [203]

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• It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which they had raised, and to end in neglect and obscurity that life which they began in honour. To the long catalogue of the inconveniences of old age, which moral and satirical writers have so copiously displayed, may be often added the loss of fame.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Long, Age, Obscurity

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• My idea for BoneMan's Daughters came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.

  Ted Dekker

  Daughter, Mother, Home

  Interview with Dick Donahue, www.publishersweekly.com. April 20, 2009.

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• The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

  Alvin Toffler

  Daughter, Mother, Tragedy

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• One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is probably right in saying that more cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution ... than to anything else.

  Huston Smith

  Religious, Teaching, Theory Of Evolution

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• A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears for her children; again she fears for the women and children who belong to her children. ... For each of these-whether for loss of possessions, bodily illness, or undesired misfortune-she mourns and grieves no less than those who suffer.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• The Rolling Stones suffered a great loss with the death of Ian Stewart, the man who had for so many years played piano quietly and silently with them on stage.

  Andy Peebles

  Funny, Men, Years

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