Best loss & has-beens Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don't really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there's a big difference.”

Ifs Years Long Has Beens Ideas Bigs Process Differences Loss Periods Long Time Losing Weight Compare Weight Loss

Author:Ray William Johnson

“Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.”

Doe Has Beens Whole Happens Would Be Loses Loss Economy Groups Possibility Particular Higher Gains Acceptable Fixing Transactions Gains And Losses

Author:Thomas Sowell

“My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.”

Has Beens Together Mother Certain Parent Loss Results Wonderful Amount Married Teenager Working Together Autonomy Involving Wonderful Marriage

Author:Jessica Valenti

“Grief is real because loss is real. Each grief has its own imprint, as distinctive and as unique as the person we lost. The pain of loss is so intense, so heartbreaking, because in loving we deeply connect with another human being, and grief is the reflection of the connection that has been lost. We think we want to avoid the grief, but really it is the pain of the loss we want to avoid. Grief is the healing process that ultimately brings us comfort in our pain.”

“If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led me by the hand. It has led me along an unexpected path, a path where new vistas open up, a path leading to new territory, where one can set up a base of operations, from which one can survey the surroundings and plan future progress.”

“The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.”

Ifs Has Beens Facts Body Form Loss Common Poet Ought Cost Musician Tools Stones Fundamentals Myth Superiors Painter Symbols Substance Savages Effectiveness Pierce

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than a third from cost or unless it reflects a known deterioration of consequence in the company's position. In a well-defined bear market many sound common stocks sell temporarily at extraordinary low prices. It is possible that the investor may then have a paper loss of fully 50 per cent on some of his holdings, without any convincing indication that the underlying values have been permanently affected.”

“I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about the loss of productivity in the Western male. It may be that entertainment culture now is so engaging that it keeps people satisfied. We didn't have that. Science was much more fun than listening to the radio. When you are 16 or 17 and in that inherently semi-lonely period when you are deciding whether to be an intellectual, many now don't bother.”

“Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lose our own in the process. (Women are supposed to find in this loss their true fulfillment.) But every individual person is born both to assert herself or himself and to act out a sympathy for others trying to find themselves - in Christian terms, meant to love one's self as one loves others ... Jesus never taught that we should split up that commandment - assigning 'love yourself' to men, 'love others' to women. But society has tried to.”

Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader

“Perhaps if Hitler had had the wisdom to withdraw his troops and prepare for the defense of his own country, Germany, despite the loss of face this would entail in the losing of all Italy, then the course of the war, if not the outcome, would have been quite different.”

Ifs Has Beens Different War Country Faces Courses Loss Losing Defense Despite Outcomes Germany Troops

Author:Christopher Vokes

“Without union our independence and liberty would never have been achieved; without union they can never be maintained. Divided into twenty-four, or even a smaller number, of separate communities, we shall see our internal trade burdened with numberless restraints and exactions; communications between distant points and sections obstructed or cut off; our sons made soldiers to deluge with blood the fields they now till in peace...The loss of liberty, of all good government, of peace, plenty, and happiness, must inevitably follow a dissolution of the Union.”

Source: Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States

“It's certainly a loss for us here at the University of Washington, because Jeff Compher has been a wonderful friend and administrator. Jeff is a football man first, but he has the compassion and desire to make all of Northern Illinois' programs successful. He's one heck of a guy.”

Men Firsts Has Beens Desire Guy Loss Compassion Successful Wonderful Football Program University Administrators Illinois Wonderful Friends

Author:Tyrone Willingham

“The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are in many cases quite poor, resulting in the losses of huge amounts of produce.”

Has Beens Growth Loss Poor Cases Produce Huge Type Amount Factors Farmers Infrastructure Transport

Author:Richard Attias

“There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.”

Ifs Has Beens Soul Action Earth Found Loss Accepting Forever Air Victory Embrace Everyday Defeat Gentle Settling Pockets Target Flags Defeated Everyday Life Sigh Silk Drifting Turbulence

Book:The Gargoyle

Source: The Gargoyle

“Of the 2,000,000 Armenians in Turkey in 1914, one million have been slaughtered, and the survivors only 130,000 remain in Turkey and the rest are refugees and exiles. Armenian property losses are valued at over 5,000,000,000 dollars are more than three fourths of the estimated wealth of the Armenian race.”

Has Beens Three Wealth Loss Race Millions Dollars Property Survivor Genocide Refugee Exile Turkeys Armenians Armenian Genocide

Author:Herbert Adams Gibbons

“Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved.”

Feels Has Beens Lasts Lost Loss Indifferent Looking Back Relieved I Feel Sad

Author:Mason Cooley

“Somebody who should have been born is gone. Yes, woman, such logic will lead to loss without death. Or say what you meant, you coward . . . this baby that I bleed.”

Should Has Beens Born Loss Gone Blood Baby Should Have Logic Abortion Coward Should Have Been

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not.Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is-the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?”

Men Way Has Beens Reality Happens Church Prayer Loss Poor Please Disaster Instant Sunday Plastic Deities Unchanging

Book:The Story of an African Farm

Source: The Story of an African Farm

“Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.”

Men Has Beens Beautiful Night Loss Sky Moon Anxiety Shining Disaster Mars Splendid Trinity Venus

Author:Janet Flanner

“Leaving wasn't a personal thing where I intentionally wanted to stick it to management or anyone. This is business. I felt I should have been rewarded for helping the Indians turn around a half century of losing. It was a shame they decided to treat me that way, after all I did for them. I helped this team go from one-hundred six losses to basically one-hundred six wins and into the World Series. And what do I get for it? Nothing.”

Source: Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle

“I have no bone loss, no brain loss, I have a lot of energy and a lot of strength. My heart is perfect so I think I'm more ready than I would have been in my 20s, honest to God.”

Thinking Heart Has Beens Energy Loss Perfect Brain Honest Strength Ready My Heart Bones

Author:Suzanne Somers

“We go hard. In everything we do we're going to accomplish our victory and our goal. If it takes a day, a year, or 20 years, we're going to win. I haven't taken a loss because everything I've done has been a working process to win. From being a kid on them turntables to becoming where I am is not a loss. It's a blessing.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Hard Done Kids Winning Process Goal Loss Taken Havens Becoming Victory Blessing Accomplish Key To Success Being A Kid Go Hard Turntables

Author:DJ Khaled

“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

“We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?”

Years Has Beens Wisdom Hands Loss Cities Five Hundred Letters Twenties Infinite Wit Temples Verses Castles Palaces Monument Miscellaneous Twenty Five Syllables

Book:The Advancement of Learning

Source: The Advancement of Learning

“I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s.”

Has Beens Loss Months Internet Six Late Access Six Months

Author:Charles Stross

“I started having some memory-loss issues. I took a neurological exam, and they said, "Well, you should stop fighting now." And I kept begging them for one more fight, one more fight, and the doctor said to me, "How much are they going to pay you?" I was supposed to fight three more times, and one would have been for a cruiser belt. So I said, "I just need to fight three more times." He said, "Listen, you can't even get hit in the head one more time, your neuro is so bad."”

Needs Should Wells Has Beens Said Fighting Three Memories Loss Pay Issues Doctors More Time They Said Belts Begging Exam Memory Loss

Author:Mickey Rourke

“Liam in Taken has been great to see. My boys love it. They love him. And there's just the gravitas to it. It's believable. You know the guy's endured. You know the guy's lived some life. Someone like Liam has lived a lot of life. Myself, I've lived a lot of life. There's loss. There's success. There's loss. There's doubts. And there's some heartbeat there.”

Knows Has Beens Guy Loss Boys Taken Doubt Heartbeat Believable My Boys Liam Gravitas

Author:Pierce Brosnan

“Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.”

Source: Agrarian Justice

“I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.”

Children Has Beens Wanted Loss Grief Stage My Children Shock Disbelief

Author:Elin Nordegren

“Can you see the deaths, divorces, job losses or changes, disappointments, surprises, and successes on people's faces? Have they been happy, sad, disillusioned, or gratified? I have been trying the single, vertically shot portrait with my 8 x 10 since 1985 and never felt I succeeded in finding what I was looking for.”

People Trying Has Beens Jobs Faces Felt Loss Findings Shots Surprise Disappointment Divorce Portraits Disillusioned Job Loss

Author:Tina Barney

“Whoever we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught by the fashion of cynicism and loss of faith in the capacity of the people, let us err today and say - nothing can stop us now!”

People May Has Beens Today Past Interest Loss Fashion Capacity Caught Cynicism Our Past Baggage Loss Of Faith

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“... the loss of public confidence in the financial community growing out of its own conduct in recent years. I insist that more damage has been done to stock values and to the future of equities from inside Wall Street than from outside Wall Street.”

Years Has Beens Done Values Community Loss Growing Streets Wall Financial Damage Equity

Author:Benjamin Graham

“Obama also allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform suggesting that media sexism spurred her loss and that “demeaning portrayals of women ... dampen the dreams of our daughters.” ... It would have been better to put this language in the platform: “A woman who wildly mismanages and bankrupts a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar campaign operation, and then blames sexism in society, will dampen the dreams of our daughters.””

“The weight loss has been a secondary change to the mental changes I have made. Weight loss does not fix problems; how you view yourself does.”

Doe Has Beens Made Problem Loss Views Weight Weight Loss

Author:Erin Willett

“Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a result, there is some loss of confidence in the great achievements of technology.”

World Has Beens Two War Humanity Loss Results Technology Achievement Weapons Spread War Of The Worlds Embarrassed Science And Technology Two Worlds Great Achievement

Author:Thomas Keating

“The Islamists had control over territory that was about half the size of the Federal Republic of Germany. For years, we have been putting the lives of our troops on the line, we have taken huge losses and the Europeans cut the budget? If money is more important than the lives of our children, what else is this than the usual arrogance and superficiality? And where is all this terror coming from? It is a result of mistakes the West committed in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the 1980s, when they armed the Islamic rebels against the Soviet troops.”

“Sometimes people say to me, 'Well, what was the difference between Kosovo, which was a successful intervention, and Iraq and Afghanistan that have been so difficult?' And the answer is perfectly simple. In Kosovo, you have, after the removal of the loss of its regime, you had a process of political and economic reconstruction that took its part without the intervention of terrorism. If you had the intervention of terrorism, by the way, it would have been extremely difficult there - but we didn't.”

“I can't think of a scenario under which [Vladimir Putin] would gradually resign from power. For him and those around him, power became a source of unlimited enrichment. A loss of power would be tantamount to an annihilation of the economic success that has been achieved so far.”

Thinking Has Beens I Can Would Be Loss Economic Source Unlimited Putin Scenarios Annihilation Enrichment Economic Success

Author:Garry Kasparov

“Today the world has to accept what India has been saying about terrorism. India's dialogue on terrorism, the losses India has suffered due to terrorism, the losses suffered by humanity, the world is now acknowledging that.”

World Has Beens Today Humanity Loss Accepting India Terrorism Dues Dialogue

Author:Narendra Modi

“India has been at the greatest loss because governments were run only for elections.”

Has Beens Government Running Loss India Election

Author:Narendra Modi

“There has been a change in consciousness that makes this one of the most interesting periods of American history, maybe the most interesting. There's a loss of belief in the corporate system; there's a recognition that something is fundamentally wrong, So there's an opening to a whole different vision of where to go forward. I think that's where we are in the question, so let's not blow it; let's see what we can develop over time.”

Thinking Has Beens Different Whole Belief Loss Interesting Consciousness Vision Periods Blow Opening Recognition Corporate American History Most Interesting

Author:Gar Alperovitz

“If there had been a charismatic figure in the United States who could mobilize fears, anger, racism, a sense of loss of the future that belongs to us, this country could be in real danger. We're lucky that there never has been an honest, charismatic figure. McCarthy was too much of a thug, you know? Nixon was too crooked. Trump, I think, is too much of a clown. So, we've been lucky.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.”

Men Has Beens Romance Loss Money Novel Reader Manners Representing Robbing Time And Money

Author:Mary Wortley Montagu

“When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.”

Thinking Should Has Beens Given Loses Loss Gone Path Gratitude Should Have Grateful Where You Are Right Path Straight Path

Author:Suze Orman

“There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.”

Long Has Beens Growth Loss Prosperity Banking Backbone Banking System Loss Of Faith

Author:Lucy Powell

“Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.”

Has Beens Helping Might Loss Company Economy Failing Policy Succeed Smart Increase Entrepreneur Odds Might Have Been Public Policy

Author:Eric Ries

“One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.”

Want Looks Has Beens Ends Values Loss Figures Easier Consequence Negative Connections Traditional Advertising Online Users Broadband Negative Consequences Online Advertising

Author:Eric Schmidt

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”

Ifs Has Beens Light Dark Loss Darkness Novelists Grieving Discontent Light And Dark Griefing

Book:The Winter of our Discontent

Source: The Winter of our Discontent

“My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Enjoyment while performing was rare - enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford.”

Mind Looks Has Beens Body Next Lines Memories Loss Worry Comedy Focus Judging Mouths Performing Enjoyment Gestures Persistent Observing Delivering Analyzing

Book:Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Source: Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“He was a great poet" They lamented. No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?”

Has Beens Said Real Loss Poet Could Have Been Great Poet

Author:Lloyd Alexander

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