Loss Quotes

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

Age, Tragedy, Daughter

I'm prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar!
Jennifer Hudson

Weight, Oscar, Prouder

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.
Ethan Hawke

Money, Humanity, Question

I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.
David Schwimmer

Fame, Privacy, Celebrity

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

Faith, Left, Tried

No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.
Wesley Snipes

Famous, Deal, Privacy

My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking.
Bethenny Frankel

Women, Books, Cooking

While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.
Mark Hyman

Food, Important, Put

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

Freedom, Europe, Presence

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
B. H. Liddell Hart

Hope, History, War

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
Saint Basil

Human, Find, Seem

You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.
Robin Gibb

Birthday, Future, Beautiful

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?
Lucinda Williams

Focus, Mean, Songs

People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.
Bianca Jagger

Great, Doubt, Democracy

A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.
Alexander McCall Smith

Powerful, Fiction, Theme

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
Allen Klein

Life, Humor, Laughter

When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.
James Belushi

Great, Power, Smile

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.
Kevin Rudd

Children, Country, Suffering

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
May Sarton

Change, Means, Few

I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might be why I've been drawn to other actors.
Liev Schreiber

Trying, Why, Sense

It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately need to address the frustration, the loss and the despair that drive some to these actions.
King Hussein I

Enough, Despair, Create

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

Happy, Times, Wealth

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
Queen Elizabeth II

Life, Hope, Respect

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.
Tom Clancy

Learned, Gain, Lessons

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
Michelle Pfeiffer

Life, Famous, Hard

The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.
Marion Ross

Person, Rude, Assume

I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything.
Michelle Williams

Time, Death, Lost

Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.
Eric Ries

Smart, Help, Public

Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.
Julie Bishop

Time, Means, Number

I was terrible at interviews, lost in my own loss of identity and struggling at home as a wife and mother. It was a household that preferred me working, which threw me off completely.
Mika Brzezinski

Home, Mother, Wife

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