Loss Quotes - Page 7

• If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Men, Done, May

  William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.185, Cambridge University Press

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• My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

  Judy Collins

  Life Lesson, Book, Healing

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• War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Crush, War, Men

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• Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship, but I haven't lost her friendship. We still phone each other for a good chat.

  Russell Crowe

  Friendship, Beautiful, Grieving

  "My 15 minutes with Russell Crowe". Interview with Emma Brocke, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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• Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

  Ray Dalio

  Running, Baseball, Home

  "Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Hedge Fund Has A Brand New iPad App" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. June 14, 2012.

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• Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Winning, League, Trying

  "Laura Robson has attitude to excel at Wimbledon says Lindsay Davenport" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2010.

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• There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop the character of the fiancee. There's another strategy that one can employ, maybe riskier... Make the reader suffer the loss of the character in a more literal way.

  Junot Diaz

  Couple, Writing, Character

  "A long-term relationship". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2012.

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• Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

  Denis Diderot

  Religion, Prejudice, Innocence

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1805.

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• It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.

  Vin Diesel

  Revenge, Dirty, Naughty

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• As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

  Annie Dillard

  Remembers Everything, Remember, Plankton

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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• If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.

  John Dingell

  Gun, Years, Hymns

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• A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

  Phil Donahue

  Psychics, Catholic, Lost Friendship

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• Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.

  David Duchovny

  Sacrifice, Privacy, Replacements

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• Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.

  Sylvia Earle

  Resilience, Coral Reefs, Temperature

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• It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

  Roger Ebert

  Easier

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• Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Time, Lost Friendship, Insightful

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• The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Europe, Islam, Individualism

  "A Sermon for the West". Oriana Fallaci's address to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute, October 22, 2002.

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• Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Brother, Regret, Atmosphere

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• No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

  Carrie Fisher

  Weight, Tragic, Turns

  "The Skinny On My New Life" by Carrie Fisher, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 29, 2011.

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• A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Death, Friend Died, Dies

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• As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.

  Steve Forbes

  Dream, Powerful, Real

  Steve Forbes (1999). “A New Birth of Freedom: Vision for America”, Regnery Publishing

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• Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

  Luke Ford

  Anger, Rely Upon, People

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• What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Hands, Risk, Important

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• I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

  Al Gore

  Failure, Victory And Defeat, Political

  Al Gore's Presidential Concession speech, www.americanrhetoric.com. December 13, 2000.

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• Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Survival, Trying

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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