Loss Quotes
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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 Bee Gees
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“Not how he died, not what he died of, even less why he died, are of concern, to me, only the fact that he did die, he is dead, is important: the loss to me, to us”
B.S. Johnson
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Taxes have been complicated. Every single time I spend a Bitcoin, it's a taxable event. It's like I bought and sold an asset. It counts as an investment, with a short- or long-term capital gain or loss.
Olaf Carlson-Wee
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It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.
Vin Diesel
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To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.
R. C. Sproul
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The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.
Nicole Kidman
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In other games you get another chance. In baseball you get three cracks at it; in tennis you lose only one point. But in golf the loss of one shot has been responsible for the loss of heart.
Tommy Armour
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I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
Tahereh Mafi
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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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
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Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.
H. P. Blavatsky
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There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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In the mid-fifties, a revolution occurred and a new word entered the vocabulary of commercial art. Concept... But the change was not entirely good. Our gain was also a loss... There was great value in something well observed and carefully delineated. If the head and heart were often absent, there was something to be said for the presence of a hand.
R. O. Blechman
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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 Blind Faith
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If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
Andrew Solomon
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To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.
Elisabeth Elliot
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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
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I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.
Sally Mann
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It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.
Will Self
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To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
William Osler
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Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.
Barbra Streisand