“In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.” PlayOrderCommunityLossRolesHearingDeafHearing Loss Author:Katie Leclerc
“The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out sustained operations without prohibitive losses.” FirstsWarOrderLossAirMilitaryAbsolutesOperationsAviationRequirementsStrategicAir PowerAirpowerMilitary Aviation Author:Carl Andrew Spaatz
“And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.” MovingOrderLossSecurityParalyzedPredictability Book:Ordinary people Source: Ordinary people
“He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was at an utter loss to know what he should do during the rest of his life, whereat Augustus expressed his surprise that Alexander did not regard it as a greater task to set in order the empire which he had won than to win it.” KnowsShouldYearsTwoOrderWinningLossGreaterTasksRegardSurpriseThirtyEmpiresTwo YearsConquestJuliusAugustusTwo Year Olds Author:Augustus
“And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out of which the divine machinery developed, I return that truth is just the reverse, that the presence of voices which had to be obeyed were the absolute prerequisite to the conscious stage of mind in which it is the self that is responsible and can debate within itself, can order and direct, and that the creation of such a self is the product of culture. In a sense, we have become our own gods.” MindSelfFeelingsOrderCultureVoiceLossStageCreationDivineProductsReturnTruth IsConsciousDirectAbsolutesResponsibleDebateJudgementReverseInwardMachineryGermsPrerequisites Author:Julian Jaynes
“Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience.” YearsOrderForceHoursLossSecretEconomyReadyThrough The YearsArmed Forces Author:Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
“Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress, his efforts to begin over again and continue, all seem to me like so many prodigies which nearly compensate for the monstrous mass of ills and defeats, of indifference and error. Catastrophe and ruin will come; disorder will triumph, but order will too, from time to time.” KnowsMenHumansLittlesSeemsLife IsOrderLossEffortProgressConditionsPeriodsMassErrorsDefeatDisasterRuinsTriumphIndifferenceDisorderHuman ConditionCatastropheMonstrousFelicityProdigies Book:Memoirs of Hadrian Source: Memoirs of Hadrian
“Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.” LawOrderNationsSocialCausesLossRightsIndependenceSoldierEmpiresThronesCowardlySocial OrderMagistrates Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.” KindOrderTurnsLiteratureLossMeaningfulRemedy Book:Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books Source: Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books
“Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it, too, hangs together, makes sense, leaves no loose ends, and is never (but never) at a loss for explanation. In a state of bewilderment it may therefore bring comfort and relief.... give its subject a new and deeper understanding of his own condition and of the nature of his relationship to his fellow men. A mythical structure will be built up around him which makes sense and is believable-in, regardless of whether or not it is true.” MenGivingWellsKindMayEndsStatesTogetherOrderUnderstandingNatureLossAnswersRelationshipConditionsSubjectsTheoryComfortBuiltFellowsStructureDeeperMythMythologyMake SenseExplanationReliefDescriptionFellow ManPsychoanalysisBelievableBewildermentDeeper UnderstandingIncoherenceLoose EndsBelievabilityLevi Strauss Author:Peter Medawar
“[My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy. It is like the animals I use. They are posed in order to appear to be alive, but they are dead. Their time has passed. The photos have to do with time and loss, and conclusion.” UseOrderLossLove IsAnimalAlivePhotographConclusionTaxidermy Author:Annette Messager
“Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being.” WellsTwoSometimesHappinessOrderLossPleasureWoundsWell BeingBreakupHardshipGet OverTrue HappinessNarcissisticFlattering Author:Jean Leloup
“I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.” YearsDifferentSometimesAbleJobsOrderFatherLossIssuesNeededDrinkMouthsLettersAngerForgivingResolveGood JobAlcoholicsDrankLove Letter Author:Gary Oldman
“If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.” IfsHumansPainOrderChanceHuman BeingsLossShareLosingConnectionsTraumaCardsChances AreDevastationGreatest FearLove RespectLosing Love Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.” IfsMadeOrderLossAcceptingGraceWonderfulDifficultyGentleRecognizingUnwelcome Author:Kathleen Norris
“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.” NeedsPainPastOrderLossWifeDemandCaughtGrievingSaltPillarsChoose LifeGreat Loss Author:Rachel Naomi Remen
“The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.” WorldLongIdeasLawOrderHouseGivenLossRoomsMankindCreaturesSupremeAbsurdCynicalSupreme Being Author:Peter De Vries
“Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.” WorldSometimesOrderLossGainsOur WorldBlinded Book:Choir of Angels Source: Choir of Angels
“Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love.It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.” WayEyePainSufferingOrderLossPathSeparationInevitableBad ThingsThings In LifeAvoidingRenounceBridaPath Of Love Author:Paulo Coelho
“We build a shell around it, like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function , day in, day out. Immune to others’ pain and loss.” PainOrderLossWalksFunctionPainfulLayersShellsSmoothPearlsParticlesImmuneGritOystersAmerican GodsPain And Loss Author:Neil Gaiman