Loss Quotes

Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.
Tim Johnson

Change, Since, President

Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
Adam Hochschild

Men, Today, Lie

Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!
Tristan Wilds

Love, Good, Poetry

It hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed.
Tony Parker

Hard, Career, Moment

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.
Mary Wortley

Regret, Her, She

My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don't really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there's a big difference.
Ray William Johnson

Success, Time, Long

You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
Edward V. Lucas

May, Lose, Gained

I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.
Robert Torricelli

United, Democratic, Majority

I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.
Mackenzie Phillips

Love, Friend, Light

The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.
Thomas Hearns

Win, Made, Another

In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.
Edward Bennett Williams

President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy.
Robert McFarlane

Life, American, Lives

I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values.
Norbert Leo Butz

Love, Money, Evil

Our loss was very heavy, especially in the officers. Capt. Sale, of Co. E, Duke's regt, was among the killed, making the third Capt. that has been killed in that company.
John H. Morgan

Making, Company, Among

A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.
Jesse Livermore

Forget, After, Soul

Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.
George Kennedy

War, Hearing, Noise

I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
Pat Bowlen

Memories, Memory, Super

Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.
Robert James Graves

May, Give, Gone

I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.
Ted Dexter

May, Down, After

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
Carolus Linnaeus

Different, Tell, Practical

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
Stefan Kanfer

Life, Cannot, Away

To win you have to risk loss.
Jean-Claude Killy

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 L. Wilkie

Love, Hate, Liberty

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
James Smithson

Happiness, Knowledge, Ignorance

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
Jane Welsh Carlyle

Time, Great, Mother

My work has typically been about finding a means to express memory and commemoration for loss and grief.
John Regan

Work, Means, Memory

The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.
Leonid Andreyev

War, Death, Reason

What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?
William Broome

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.
Pol Pot

Lives, Since, Anymore

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.
Slobodan Milosevic

Greatest, Nation, Defeat

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