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“Simon Jones was so important and is going to be a big loss. It is a chance for someone like James Anderson to step up to the mark”

Important Bigs Chance Loss Steps Mark Step Up

Author:Duncan Fletcher

“The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contemporary culture. It is a preliminary symptom of death.”

Culture Speak Loss Willing Serious Mark Contemporary Tragic Nerves Symptoms Relativism Evasion Serious Business Tragic Loss

Book:The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic

Source: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic

“But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest sight cannot penetrate into; and even the clearest and most exalted understandings amongst us find ourselves puzzled and at a loss in almost every cranny of nature's works.”

Way Understanding Sides Dark Loss Knowledge Mystery Sight Mark Obvious Skepticism Penetrate Dark Side Exalted Riddle Puzzled Obvious Things

Book:Works, Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters and C

Source: Works, Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters and C

“Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever.”

Long Body Spirit Night Loss Forever Identity Long Time Mark Shallow Forgetfulness Long Nights Loss Of Identity

Author:R. A. Lafferty

“The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.”

Loss India Mark British Recovery Empires Organisms Strokes Catastrophe British Empire Downfall

Author:Lord Randolph Churchill

“If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.”

Ifs Men Country Dies Wish Loss Greater Share Praying Mark Gods Will Our Country Thee One Man Honour Fewer I Pray

Book:Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes

Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes

“When I think about my MVP season, I will also think about the loss to Golden State. But winning the award as Most Valuable Player of the NBA is just a huge honour. I didn't really realise how big it was until Mark Cuban had tears in his eyes at the award ceremony.”

Thinking States Bigs Eye Winning Realizing Loss Player Tears Huge Honor Seasons Mark Valuable Golden His Eyes Nba Awards Ceremony Cuban Mvp Award Ceremonies

Author:Dirk Nowitzki

“We are devastated to learn of the death of Alexander McQueen, one of the greatest talents of his generation. He brought a uniquely British sense of daring and aesthetic fearlessness to the global stage of fashion. In such a short career, Alexander McQueen's influence was astonishing - from street style, to music culture and the world's museums. His passing marks an insurmountable loss.”

“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

“The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.”

Loss Half Politician Speech Mark Expecting A Loss For Words

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.”

Sports Loss Ability Player Mark Defeat Champion Sports Psychology

Author:Sam Snead

“There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.”

Desire Loss Bears Mark Disappointment Wounds Graves Permanent Gratification

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

“Love with someone else, an actual person, was another matter. People got hurt doing that. People cried and wrapped their arms around themselves and rocked with loss. Loving words got turned to fierce, sharp, whip-cracks of anger that lefft permanent marks. At the least, it disappointed you. At most, it damaged you.”

People Persons Matter Hurt Loss Arms Mark Permanent Cracks Disappointed Fierce Cried Whips Got Hurt Loving Words

Book:Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade

Source: Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade

“To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.”

Ends Happens Choices Loss Childhood Possibility Type Commitment Mark Flattery Limitless Duress Limitless Possibilities

Author:David Foster Wallace