LOSS QUOTES

• Do not allow materialism to detect the choice of your husband, because good men work hard and take time to blossom.
  ~ Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke ~
• Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
  ~ Robert Southey ~
• Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
• Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
  ~ Francis Quarles ~
• Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
  ~ D. H. Lawrence ~
• My reckless blossoming near your cumquats will overwhelm all hope for eternal love.
  ~ Magod Scroef ~
• At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
  ~ Jessica Lange ~
• At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
  ~ Jessica Lange ~
• When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.
  ~ Andrew Shue ~
• The game in beauty is changing so much, if your product isn't high tech or can't make a unique performance claim - plump your lips, reduce your lines, look glossy, and stay on for 24 hours - you can't go to market today. I'm not just talking about a $20 lipstick, but a $5 lipstick!
  ~ Andrea Jung ~
• When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them.
  ~ Michael Morpurgo ~
• In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great hardship and often with the loss of life. In contrast, we can reach millions instantly from the comfort of our homes by merely hitting the 'send' button on our computers, or with iPads, or phones.
  ~ Ray Comfort ~
• 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 ~
• Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
  ~ James Hillman ~
• 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 ~
• You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened.
  ~ Brett Favre ~
• 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 ~
• I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'
  ~ Tom Hiddleston ~
• It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.
  ~ Tom Hiddleston ~
• I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'
  ~ Tom Hiddleston ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
  ~ Dan Quayle ~
• No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
  ~ Martha Beck ~
• No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
  ~ Martha Beck ~
• Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
  ~ King Abdullah Ii ~
• Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
  ~ King Abdullah Ii ~
• In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
  ~ Joni Mitchell ~
• Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
  ~ Walter Scott ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• Politics thrives on simple, clean messages, something that played to Obama's advantage in 2008. Stagnant unemployment and the loss of America's AAA rating are as simple and tough as they come. This is the economy on Obama's watch, and there's no one left to blame.
  ~ John Sununu ~
• There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
  ~ Michael J. Fox ~
• There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
  ~ Michael J. Fox ~
• The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
  ~ Lech Walesa ~
• The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
  ~ Lech Walesa ~
• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
  ~ Norman Cousins ~
• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
  ~ Norman Cousins ~
• With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.
  ~ Alison Sweeney ~
• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
  ~ Marcel Proust ~
• Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
  ~ Russell Baker ~
• The weight of a loss can only be valued in terms of its replacement, be it a jewel or a life.
  ~ Jignesh Tailor ~
• It is a loss working for man to gain money while forsaking the spiritual nourishment.
  ~ Francis Omariba ~
• The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
  ~ Oriana Fallaci ~
• A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.
  ~ Brad Pitt ~
• Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
  ~ Allen Klein ~
• We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
  ~ Nancy Pelosi ~
• If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.
  ~ Nancy Pelosi ~
• I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.
  ~ Gary Oldman ~
• Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
  ~ John Steinbeck ~
• Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
  ~ John Steinbeck ~
• Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.
  ~ Russell Crowe ~
• There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.
  ~ Lucy Powell ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
  ~ Epictetus ~
• No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
  ~ Epictetus ~
• Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
  ~ Epictetus ~
• 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 ~
• With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.
  ~ Ron Wyden ~
• Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
  ~ Nicole Kidman ~
• 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 ~
• And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
  ~ Anais Nin ~
• As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
  ~ Noam Chomsky ~
• War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
  ~ Charles Caleb Colton ~
• There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
  ~ Malcolm X ~
• Never floss with a stranger.
  ~ Joan Rivers ~
• You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
  ~ Taylor Swift ~
• You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
  ~ Taylor Swift ~
• Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.
  ~ James Buchan ~
• Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
  ~ Marcus Aurelius ~
• Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
  ~ Marcus Aurelius ~
• Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
  ~ James Madison ~
• Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
  ~ James Madison ~
• It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
  ~ James Madison ~
• Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
  ~ James Madison ~
• It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
  ~ James Madison ~
• The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
  ~ James Madison ~
• Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
  ~ Henry Ward Beecher ~
• When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
  ~ Francis Bacon ~
• I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.
  ~ Jerry Saltz ~
• President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.
  ~ Mitt Romney ~
• President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.
  ~ Mitt Romney ~
• It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
  ~ Stephen Hawking ~
• It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
  ~ Stephen Hawking ~
• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
  ~ Winston Churchill ~
• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
  ~ Winston Churchill ~
• War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
  ~ Thomas Jefferson ~
• The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
  ~ Thomas Jefferson ~
• The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
  ~ Thomas Jefferson ~
• The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
  ~ Thomas Jefferson ~
• Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
  ~ Honore De Balzac ~
• Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
  ~ Honore De Balzac ~
• I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
  ~ Marilyn Monroe ~
• Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
  ~ Mark Twain ~
• The act of losing something is not always a loss but more of a gain.
  ~ Xavier Wildefyre ~