Best loss & names Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Those humble but indomitable workers, to whom later generations referred by the collective name of Baale Masorah, Masters of Tradition, performed in obscurity their Herculean task of guarding the Biblical Text against loss or variation.”

Names Loss Generations Masters Tradition Tasks Workers Humble Collectives Biblical Variation Obscurity Guarding Indomitable

Book:The Biblical text in the making: a study of the kethib-qere

Source: The Biblical text in the making: a study of the kethib-qere

“And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.”

Young Found Names Given Loss Grief Land Remembered Lonesome Given Names

Book:Yesterdays in a Busy Life

Source: Yesterdays in a Busy Life

“We stand in need of such reflections to comfort us for the loss of some illustrious characters, which in our eyes might have seemed the most worthy of the heavenly present. The names of Seneca, of the elder and the younger Pliny, of Tacitus, of Plutarch, of Galen, of the slave Epictetus, and of the emperor Marcus Antoninus, adorn the age in which they flourished, and exalt the dignity of human natures.”

Source: EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including

“Rick Perry was philosophical about (his election losses). He said, 'Last week was Iowa. Yesterday was New Hampshire. ' He said at least it's giving him a chance to learn the names of all the states.”

Giving Said States Lasts Names Chance Loss Week Philosophical Election Yesterday Iowa Hampshire New Hampshire

Author:Jay Leno

“My God, the suburbs! They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory and we thought of them as a loss of privacy, a cesspool of conformity and a life of indescribable dreariness in some split-level village where the place name appeared in the New York Times only when some bored housewife blew off her head with a shotgun.”

Source: John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings

“Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!”

Moments Names Loss Ships Honour Shore Sail Doomed Coffins Spooky

Book:The Uncommercial Traveller

Source: The Uncommercial Traveller

“Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You mustallow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.”

“Honesty, good intentions and industry, you will have of course. Without these your career would soon end with the loss of your good name. But you must be ambitious to be a good deal more. Webb Hayes, his son, went on to found what had become the Union Carbide Corporation.”

Ends Courses Found Names Loss Deals Careers Honesty Son Industry Unions Intention Corporations Ambitious Good Intentions

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.”

Ifs Wells Names Loss Plans Weight Illness Well Being Perpetual Weight Loss Tedious Nervousness

Author:George D. Prentice

“I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.”

Thinking Should Feelings Hate Girl Passion Evil Names Wish Loss Pure I Hate Very Good Convinced Unwilling No Love Detest Elevating Hate Her I Hate Her

Book:The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works

Source: The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works

“If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what change costs us,/saying how strange/it is that one sector/of the self can step in/for another in trouble,/how loss activates/a latent double, how/we can feed/as upon nectar/upon need?”

Ifs Knows Needs Self Hard Names Loss Steps Trouble Strange Cost Shapes Strongest Latent Activate Nectar

Book:Say Uncle: Poems

Source: Say Uncle: Poems

“Having been away from you offical duties," Arch said as the Miller's hand lowered to his side, "you might not have hearc, but I've developed a weapon capable of destroying all of Boaderland, Wonderland, Morgavia, Unterlan and who knows what else. I call it WILMA, which stands for Weapon of Inconceivable Loss and Massive Annihilation. It also happens to be the name of one of my former wives, who had to be put down on account of her feisty temper.”

Knows Said Hands Might Happens Names Sides Loss Wife Duty Weapons Capable Accounts Former Massive Destroying Temper Away From You Annihilation Wonderland Arches Feisty

Author:Frank Beddor

“What is it that dies? A log of wood dies to become a few planks. The planks die to become a chair. The chair dies to become a piece of firewood, and the firewood dies to become ash. You give different names to the different shapes the wood takes, but the basic substance is there always. If we could always remember this, we would never worry about the loss of anything. We never lose anything; we never gain anything. By such discrimination we put an end to unhappiness. (118-119)”

Ifs Giving Different Ends Remember Dies Names Loses Loss Worry Pieces Shapes Gains Woods Discrimination Substance Chairs Unhappiness Ashes Different Names Firewood

Author:Swami Satchidananda

“She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You won't find Prim." At her name, he perks up. Raises his flattened ears. Begins to meow hopefully. "Get out!" He dodges the pillow I throw at him. "Go away! There's nothing left for you here!" I start to shake, furious with him. "She's not coming back! She's never ever coming back here again!" I grab another pillow and get to my feet to improve my aim. Out of nowhere, the tears begin to pour down my cheeks. "She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead.”

Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

“Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still. (page 103)”

Heart Stills Names Left Loss Behinds Missing Listening Pages Wide Left Behind Missing Someone

Book:The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

“I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting — the pain of loss. I felt the agony of the single moment that I lost myself. Lost what made me Sam. The part of me that could remember Grace's name.”

Ifs Made Moments Pain Remember Names Lost Felt Loss Grace Remembered Agony Shifting Lost Myself

Book:Shiver

Source: Shiver

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