Loss Quotes

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I'm not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don't feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.
LeBron James

Hate, Help, Done

I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit.
Mark Ruffalo

Love, Hurt, Character

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.
David Hockney

Wonderful, Pay, Drawing

Accept loss forever.
Jack Kerouac

Accept, Forever

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
Francis Schaeffer

Life, True, Christian

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
Jack Welch

Future, Wrong, Next

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, Making, Privacy

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Al Gore

Hard, Soul, Victory

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

Freedom, Important, Wrong

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.
Annie Lennox

Life, Dreams, Death

The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.
Nicole Kidman

Place, Child, Terrifying

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
Nicole Kidman

Strong, Child, Desire

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam Chomsky

Science, Human, Decision

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
Sydney J. Harris

Important, Leave, Face

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Dick Gregory

Riches, Possession, Delight

Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.
Barbra Streisand

Around, Totally

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
Samuel Richardson

Women, Men, Husband

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.
Phil McGraw

Successful, Takes, Weight

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?
Maurice Sendak

Love, Mother, Live

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
Jessica Lange

Life, Age, Death

Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
James Hillman

Change, Time, Soul

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
Eric Clapton

Great, Place, Sense

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
Joni Mitchell

Music, Writing, Gift

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
Venus Williams

Business, Game, Understand

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
Bruce Springsteen

Music, Lost, Point

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
Anne Grant

Pain, Feeling, Process

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
Norman Cousins

Thought, Energy, Universe

People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.
Thomas Jane

Life, Change, Lose

Every loss of life is terrible.
George H. W. Bush

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.
Mindy Kaling

Care, Hair, Takes

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