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“I remember, when I was a little kid, I was good at sports, and I could jump off the high board. And then puberty hit, and suddenly I was looking to boys for direction. I remember that as a great loss.”

Littles Kids Remember Sports Loss Boys Boards Little Kid Remember When Puberty Great Loss

Author:Francine Prose

“Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.”

People Needs Sometimes Loss Deeper Driven Great Loss

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence of anyone who is suffering or dying is beyond death.”

Happens Form Suffering Opportunity Realizing Loss Dying Essence Who You Are Identification Great Loss Approaching Death

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.”

Long Term Loss Duty Endure Investing Long Term Investors Equanimity Great Loss

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.”

Past Loss Honor Glory Deny Our Past Great Loss

Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Michael Jackson is the reason why I do music and why I am an entertainer. I am devastated by this great loss, and I will continue to be humbled and inspired by his legacy. My prayers are with his family. Michael will be deeply missed, but never forgotten. He's the greatest, the best ever. No one will ever be better.”

Reason Prayer Loss Inspired Forgotten Legacy Reason Why Entertainers Devastated Best Ever Great Loss

Author:Chris Brown

“If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.”

Ifs Feels Loss Lovers Losing Pursued Pretty Woman Great Loss

Author:Erica Jong

“Most medical personnel remain largely unfamiliar with non-medical treatments, and tend to dismiss them without knowing about what they're dismissing. This is a great loss to the doctor as well as to the public.”

Wells Loss Knowing Doctors Medical Treatment Unfamiliar Personnel Medical Treatment Great Loss

Author:Andrew Saul

“The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of it for another twenty or thirty years when we'll wish we had those letters never written.”

Knows World Years Today Wish Loss Written Letters Twenties Thirty Thirty Years Today's World Great Loss

Author:David Burnett

“My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I think four of them died. On my mother's side the picture was pretty much the same. Russia has suffered great losses. And of course we can't forget that.”

Thinking World War Mother Courses Father Sides Loss Forget Five Four Brother Majors My Family Died Russia War Of The Worlds Second World War Great Loss

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I am free, and always have been; free to accept my own reality, free to trust my perceptions, free to believe what makes me feel sane even if others call me crazy, free to disagree even if it means great loss, free to seek the way home until I find it.”

Source: Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith

“The impact of the earthquake on mental health was huge and unimaginably deep in people's lives. Some lost all benchmarks and references because of their great loss, we still have people coming to clinics with mental health problems related to the earthquake. They talk about the earthquake, about being under the rubble.”

People Stills Problem Lost Loss Health Huge Impact Mental Health Related Earthquakes Clinic Rubble Health Problems Great Loss

Author:Reggie Fils-Aime

“He was a terrific guy. It is a great loss to the sports world. Wilt Chamberlain had a special place in basketball history and he will be missed. We had many battles with Wilt. He was a fun guy to be around; he was a 'Gentle Giant.'”

World Guy Fun Sports Loss Special Battle Basketball Gentle Giants Terrific Special Places Great Loss Chamberlain

Author:Tom Heinsohn

“To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!”

Believe Christian Loss Mistaken Great Loss

Author:Blaise Pascal

“The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia... I always thought Malcolm would be around a lot longer. I must say, I wished he had been.”

Would Be Loss Australia Great Loss

Author:Julia Gillard

“The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.”

Loss Errors Undertakings Begets Great Loss

Author:Herodotus

“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.”

Firsts Stuff Loss Mark Trade Creator Expenses Foreheads Great Loss Blindfolds

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“I do believe that great love brings with it the terror and possibility of great loss.”

Believe Loss Possibility Terror Great Love Great Loss

Author:Emily Susan Rapp

“[John] Hughes is a great loss, I think. He was the first filmmaker that could look at someone who was young without seeing them as being less.”

Thinking Firsts Looks Young Loss Seeing Filmmaker Great Loss

Author:Judd Nelson

“It's a great loss.[Carrie Fisher] was a comic genius, as far as I'm concerned.”

Loss Genius Concerned Comic Carrie Great Loss

Author:Tony Taccone

“I like Iron Maiden and a few other bands, but by and large I don't like metal music. Most of it simply put reeks. This meant that it was no great loss for me to drop the metal music altogether.”

Loss Band Iron Metals Maidens Great Loss Iron Maiden Metal Music

Author:Varg Vikernes

“There's no great loss without some small gain.”

Loss Gains Prairie Great Loss Little House On The Prairie

Book:The first four years

Source: The first four years

“Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have not grieved over will always stand between us and life. When we don't grieve, a part of us becomes caught in the past like Lot's wife who, because she looked back, was turned into a pillar of salt.”

Needs Pain Past Order Loss Wife Demand Caught Grieving Salt Pillars Choose Life Great Loss

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.”

Knows Different Loss Creatures Recovery Get Over Kinder Great Loss

Book:Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

Source: Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

“but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.”

Dream Hands Care Grows Loses Loss Flower Aging Fruit Retirement Lightness Funny Retirement Great Loss

Book:When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

“What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet.”

Ifs Men World Doe Reason Home Dies Loss Bed Balls Bored Carriages Yawning Great Loss

Author:Mikhail Lermontov

“The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.”

World Hate Evil Imagination Loss Devil Firm Wickedness Natural World True Religion Arches Stand Firm Antagonist Great Loss

Book:The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings

Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings

“He was a top man and a good professional. He was one of those who you know will never play a trick and you can ask him to do anything for you and he will. An unassuming man and a great loss to us all.”

Knows Men Play Asks Loss Athlete Tricks Who You Know Unassuming Great Loss

Author:Geoffrey Boycott

“The Rolling Stones suffered a great loss with the death of Ian Stewart, the man who had for so many years played piano quietly and silently with them on stage.”

Men Years Funny Loss Stage He Man Stones Dumb Piano Rolling Rolling Stones Great Loss

Author:Andy Peebles

“My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.”

Life Is Joy Loss Ups & Downs Great Joy Great Loss

Author:Isabel Allende

“Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours.”

Long Enough Enjoy Loss Ability Grief Wonderful Long Life Deep Love Wonderful Life Great Loss

Author:Barbara Cooper

“In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be ?replaced? by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.”

Would Be Lost Loss Easier Our Society Replaced Altered Great Loss

Author:George Lucas

“I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed a note informing me of the sudden death of Senator Dwight morrow. He had proved a great pillar of strength in the senate and his death was a great loss to the country and to me. I left the ballpark with the chant of the crowd ringing in my ears, 'We Want Beer!'”

Source: The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression, 1929-1941

“Every minute that we lose will cost us great losses later that we will not be able to afford.”

Able Loses Loss Minutes Cost Great Loss

Author:Walter Model

“One of my favorite albums of all time is Michael Jackson's "Thriller". Every song is superbly written, performed, and produced. He is a great loss to the music world. There will never be another one like him.”

World Song Loss Written My Favorite Albums All Time Thrillers Great Loss

Author:Daryl Stuermer