Loss Quotes
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Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.
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To avoid whipsaw losses, stop trading.
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Lord, for the erring thought Not unto evil wrought: Lord, for the wicked will Betrayed, and baffled still: For the heart from itself kept, Our thanksgiving accept. For ignorant hopes that were Broken to our blind prayer: For pain, death, sorrow, sent Unto our chastisement: For all loss of seeming good, Quicken our gratitude.
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He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.
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[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.
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If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!
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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.
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Many of the field hands who manage, pick and process these crops will be impacted through the loss of their jobs
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We see death in the loss of sweet daughters and wives and fathers and old friends
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A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
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The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is impossible because the perfection is only ever an instant passed through. Love like travel is a series of moments that we immediately leave behind. Still we try to hold on and embalm against all evidence and common sense proclaiming our promises and plans. The more I loved him the more I felt hope. But hope acknowledges uncertainty and so I also felt my first premonitions of loss.
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It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.
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When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly.
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As Democratic losses mounted in Senate races across the country on election night, some liberal commentators clung to the idea that dissatisfied voters were sending a generally anti-incumbent message, and not specifically repudiating Democratic officeholders. But the facts of the election just don't support that story.
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Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
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If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.
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As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.
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Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.
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There are moments in one's life when everything one considers to be a win is for all practical purposes a loss.
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The pain of retirement means loss.
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Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.
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Losing that second game the way we did, it almost feels like we've been swept. That's a tough loss.
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The fact is I have lost a fight, and I accept the loss from Allah. That's the way a real fighter and a real man goes out.
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Obviously loss of family is huge and critical, but I think really it's more about losing a sense of family. The horror of that kind of incompleteness. Writing this book, I tried not to think about my father, which does no one any good fictionally. I did try to imagine not just the horror of that moment, but the horror of having witnessed it, and the lifelong void. And I think that's what's so frightening.
