Best loss & sometimes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Loss Results Office Paper Messages Consequence Response Access Commit Magazines Boss Reporters Candor

Author:Ron Suskind

“Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both.”

Littles Doe Sometimes Faces Suffering Loss Teach Bitter Persist Cynic

Author:Grace Slick

“Losing ... really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do you own the loss? Do you analyze your failure, or just complain about bad luck? If you're willing to examine failure, and to look not just at your outward physical performance, but your internal workings, too, losing can be valuable. How you behave in those moments can perhaps be more self-defining than winning could ever be. Sometimes losing shows you for who you really are.”

Ifs Looks Doe Self Sometimes Moments Shows Winning Loss Willing Losing Performances Blame Luck Who You Are Valuable Complaining Behave Internals Defining Bad Luck

Author:Lance Armstrong

“People always are encouraging about a terrible loss, so that sometimes the loser would like to strangle them.”

People Sometimes Loss Terrible Losing Loser

Book:Lake Wobegon Days

Source: Lake Wobegon Days

“Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.”

Sometimes Loss Integrity Cost Loss Of A Friend

Author:Jack McDevitt

“Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.”

Sometimes Loses Loss Grief Greater Regret Friends

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.”

Trying Sometimes Happens Loss Acceptance Disaster Things Happen Tragic Submit Omnipotent

Book:Rebecca West, a celebration

Source: Rebecca West, a celebration

“All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.”

World Years Sometimes Reality Seems Can Do Loss Results This World Failure Gains Concern Guides Bitter

Book:The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

“In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.”

Way Persons Sometimes Lost Loss Healing Laughter Tragedy Midst

Author:Alan Alda

“It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was grieving for the loss of my old barbershop in Manhattan, and wondering at the strangeness of my new one. I didn't have any idea the poem would break into the underworld, opening a deeper subject: the continuing force of the old griefs routine helps to mediate, and my strange, sheer wonder at my own survival. Where's home now? In the contingent present, in which anything can disappear, and where we're sometimes granted some form of grace.”

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

People Needs Sometimes Loss Deeper Driven Great Loss

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Sometimes the given seems like something taken away.”

Sometimes Seems Given Loss Taken Like Something

Author:Mason Cooley

“I learned early on that it's heartbreaking to - there's the editor that comes in, and then they have to craft the movie together, and sometimes you give a whole performance that's just been cut up, and maybe it's better for it, absolutely, but you still have to deal with the loss of that.”

Giving Stills Sometimes Whole Together Loss Deals Cutting Performances Crafts Editors Heartbreaking

Author:Tavis Smiley

“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.”

Ifs Thinking Way Years Sometimes Problem Black Loss Cases Information Stuck Holes Furious Black Hole Way Forward

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Sometimes when something really works well, it becomes a target, forty years for me, I've been a part, and I've loved every minute of it. My family has done so well with it. It's been a beautiful thing for me. I've saved lives with it and saved my own life several times. Through my loss of my son, it helped me every step of the way for two years solid, and here I am.”

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Author:John Travolta

“Sometimes it's nice to be able to reflect on the music itself and then write lyrics that I feel anyone can relate to. It's not my dreaming tree that is dead. The feeling of a loss of hope is universal. There are moments that we've all felt a little bit of it, so I don't think it is something that is too hard to identify with.”

Thinking Feels Writing Littles Sometimes Hard Moments Feelings Dream Able Felt Bits Loss Nice Tree Little Bit Universal Relate

Author:Dave Matthews

“Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.”

Feels Sometimes Loss Prejudice Vigor

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Dictatorships sometimes fall unexpectedly and quickly. And [Vladimir] Putin knows that for him, the loss of power doesn't mean a comfortable retirement, but something completely different.”

Knows Mean Different Sometimes Fall Loss Comfortable Retirement Dictatorship Putin

Author:Garry Kasparov

“Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.”

Real Sometimes Shows Values Loss Distance Separation Those We Love Real Value

Author:James Howell

“Many spiritual seekers who say their wish is to awaken don't actually want what they believe they do. This becomes clear sometimes at the approach to the brink of what feels like a void, where the obliteration of the egoic self seems imminent. With a shocked recognition of what is being asked, the person will recoil. The scale of the loss-the dissolution of the familiar self-is beyond what was bargained for.”

Want Feels Believe Persons Self Sometimes Seems Spiritual Wish Loss Clear Approach Scales Familiar Recognition Void Shocked Seekers Dissolution Recoil

Book:The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is

Source: The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is

“A bloody and complete victory has sometimes yielded no more than the possession of the field and the loss of ten thousand men has sometimes been sufficient to destroy, in a single day, the work of ages.”

Men Sometimes Age Loss Fields Victory Thousand Ten Possession Sufficient Bloody

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“I hate letting my teammates down. I know I'm not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don't feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.”

Ifs Knows Feels Trying Sometimes Done Play Helping Hate Winning Loss Answers Rooms Results Shots I Hate Awful Teammate Lockers Locker Room

Author:LeBron James

“In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens.”

Ifs Way Ends Sometimes Happens Loss Cases Destroyed Monument Monasteries

Author:Dalai Lama

“Some people's weight loss is impeded by an impaired thyroid. So I think it's worth testing that at your next physical exam. If it's off, sometimes, that can be caused by excess metals, such as mercury or cadmium. A qualified M.D. can help you cleanse your body of those.”

People Ifs Thinking Sometimes Helping Body Next Loss Weight Your Body Excess Metals Testing Qualified Weight Loss Exam Mercury Thyroid

Author:Tony Robbins

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Jean Leloup

“Sometimes a loss that just comes out of left field rings in a very weird way when you have actually sort of relied on this small moment with this or that person, as a moment that actually has defined something for you in your life.”

Way Persons Sometimes Moments Left Loss Fields Rings Defined Small Moments Left Field

Author:Ted Leo

“It's almost weirder sometimes when you don't have a full life experience with someone's ups and downs, knowing what they've been through. Sometimes a loss that just comes out of left field rings in a very weird way when you have actually sort of relied on this small moment with this or that person, as a moment that actually has defined something for you in your life.”

Way Persons Sometimes Moments Left Loss Knowing Fields Rings Defined Life Experience Ups & Downs Full Life Small Moments Left Field

Author:Ted Leo

“God is okay. He's got big shoulders. He's okay with our - with our questioning and our - you know, I think the bigger the question, the bigger the answer, you know? It may be sickness, it may be loss, it may be disappointment, but sometimes you feel like heaven's silent, that "God, how-how can this be love?" But actually, if you go back to the Word, you know, it just underpins everything.”

Thinking Sometimes Loss Okay Silent Disappointment Sickness Questioning

Author:Darlene Zschech

“Sometimes people will have a heart attack or some devastating personal loss, and after that, their political views change completely, and their behavior changes completely. It's not because somebody persuaded them to look at the graph on CO2 and temperature, and they finally saw the evidence and were persuaded. Something else changed that allowed them to see and to hear. What is that something else? How can we cultivate that in people without them having to go through a heart attack? The interpersonal things we do change the substructure of our systems. They are political.”

People Heart Sometimes Political Loss Changed Behavior Evidence Heart Attack Political View

Author:Charles Eisenstein

“Sometimes you lose - perhaps because you play against the very best, or because surprises happen - but if there is organizational confidence, you bounce back from losses and convert them to successes.”

Sometimes Loss Surprise Organizational

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“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.”

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Author:Gary Oldman

“Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.”

Knows Needs Sometimes Hard Loss Nice Treats Being Nice Mcdonalds Slam Hamburgers

Author:Venus Williams

“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.”

World Sometimes Order Loss Gains Our World Blinded

Book:Choir of Angels

Source: Choir of Angels

“You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.”

Trying Stills Sometimes Feelings Artist Song Loss Space Cutting Missing Silent Following Holes Abandoned Loved Ones Time And Space Full Life Loss Of A Loved One Adrift Pascal Hissing

Author:Bono

“Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty-four hours of our relationship. I know that this happens, I see it happening, I even feel myself, sometimes, standing at some temporal crossroads, some distinct moment at which I can walk away and keep it from happening, but I never do. I grab at everything, I end up with nothing, and then I feel bereft. I mourn for the loss of something I never even had.”

“It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined. Over the years, as the memory of Sophie Mol ... slowly faded, the Loss of Sophie Mol grew robust and alive. It was always there. Like a fruit in season. Every season. As permanent as a government job.”

Years Sometimes Government Jobs Memories Loss Alive Grew Seasons Fruit Curious Permanent Life Death Sophie Faded Robust Government Jobs

Book:The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

“Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and smart and inviting, and in the three seconds you have to look at her, you actually fall in love, and in those moments, you can actually know the taste of her kiss, the feel of her skin against yours, the sound of her laugh, how she'll look at you and make you whole. And then she's gone, and in the five seconds afterwards, you mourn her loss with more sadness than you'll ever admit to.”

“If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends of your arms - i you find yourself at a loss for what do with them, overcome with sadness that comes when you recognize the foreignnes of your own body - it's because your hands remember a time when the division between mind and body, brain and heart, what's inside and what's outside, was so much less.”

People Ifs Feels Mind Heart Ends Sometimes Body Hands Remember Loss Party Brain Sadness Arms Overcoming Finding Yourself Division Gathering Mind And Body Heart And Brain History Of Love

Author:Nicole Krauss

“It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a thunderclap, the realization would rip the protective coating from my senses. Maybe that's the way it is with trick knees and aging griefs. Totally pain free one moment and absorbingly painful the next.”

Way Sometimes Moments Feelings Pain Next Loss Grief Week Periods Aging Painful Senses Tricks Realization Knees Unexpected Rip Protective

Book:Morning is a long time coming

Source: Morning is a long time coming

“Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.”

Want Made Sometimes Loss Cry Rivers Glasses Fists

Book:Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.”

Persons Sometimes Lost Loss Needed Loved Ones Sad Truth One Friend

Author:Daniel Handler

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