Loss Quotes
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The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.
R. C. Sproul
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Sometimes when something really works well, it becomes a target, forty years for me, I've been a part, and I've loved every minute of it. My family has done so well with it. It's been a beautiful thing for me. I've saved lives with it and saved my own life several times. Through my loss of my son, it helped me every step of the way for two years solid, and here I am.
John Travolta
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I see what grief does, how it strips you bare, shows you all the things you don't want to know. That loss doesn't end, that there isn't a moment where you are done, when you can neatly put it away and move on.
Elizabeth Scott
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There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money; for when money can be had in this way, repayment is seldom thought of in time, the interest becomes a loss, exertions to raise it by dent of industry cease, it comes easy and is spent freely, and many things are indulged in that would never be thought of if they were to be purchased by the sweat of the brow.
George Washington
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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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The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.
Babatunde Fashola
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A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
William James
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The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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It would be a great loss for the league. I'm going to miss him. I looked up to him, watching him win Super Bowls.
Corey Dillon
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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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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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After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.
William Henry Ashley
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I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.
Ugo Cavallero
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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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Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.
William Shakespeare
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That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.
Gary Player
