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“I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing.”

“What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things - either to lose your loan or lose your friend.”

Ifs May Made Two Choices Asks Lost Loses Loss Enemy Kindness Presses Two Things Loan

Author:Plautus

“For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country--no bluebird in spring!”

Said Two Country Loss Environment Generations Sky Missing Summer Spring Blue Wings Soil Visible Embodiment Kindred Dwellers Bluebird

Book:Bird Neighbors - An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes

Source: Bird Neighbors - An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes

“The public, as a whole, buys at the wrong time and sells at the wrong time. The average operator, when he sees two or three points profit, takes it; but, if a stock goes against him two or three points, he holds on waiting for the price to recover, with oftentimes, the result of seeing a loss of two or three points run into a loss of ten points.”

Ifs Two Whole Running Three Waiting Loss Results Seeing Ten Sells Average Profit Wrong Time Operators

Book:Dow Theory Unplugged: Charles Dow's Original Editorials & Their Relevance Today

Source: Dow Theory Unplugged: Charles Dow's Original Editorials & Their Relevance Today

“What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things.”

Men Humans Doe Two Different Black Loss Answers Conditions Different Things Tragic Human Condition Starving Starvation Two Different Things

Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“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.”

Knows Should Years Two Order Winning Loss Greater Tasks Regard Surprise Thirty Empires Two Years Conquest Julius Augustus Two Year Olds

Author:Augustus

“It's two days until tax time. I know it's late, but there is still time to deduct this show as a loss.”

Knows Stills Two Shows Loss Taxes Late Two Days

Author:David Letterman

“There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy.”

Two Energy Sides Loss Gains Mysticism Avoiding Two Sides Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Recreational talking is, along with private singing, one of our saddest recent losses. Like singing, talking has become a job for trained professionals, who are paid considerable sums of money to do it on television and radio while we sit silently listening or, if we're truly lonely and determined, call the station and sit holding the phone waiting for a chance to contribute our two cents' worth.”

Ifs Two Jobs Waiting Chance Loss Talking Television Listening Singing Lonely Paid Phones Radio Determined Stations Cents Saddest Two Cents Television And Radio

Author:Barbara Holland

“There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.”

Two Age Three Memories Loss Forget Humorous Old Age

Author:Red Skelton

“When weight loss becomes a goal in your life, eating right and exercising are just two pieces of the puzzle. Figuring out why you've put on the extra weight is the hardest part.”

Two Goal Loss Pieces Health Exercise Eating Weight Hardest Extras Puzzles Weight Loss Eating Right

Book:Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life

Source: Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life

“Every human being has gone through a tragedy of sorts. And the idea is that you have two paths you can take, you can find that alchemy that turns lead into gold, find that magic where you can see the loss as an entry point for learning and grow from it and become wiser and stronger.”

Humans Two Ideas Turns Grows Human Beings Loss Gone Path Magic Gold Tragedy Stronger Wiser Alchemy Entry Two Paths

Author:Jillian Michaels

“A child is nothing like a racing car. . . . Souping up babies doesn't work that way. The child is what she is. There is a certainirreducible if elusive core. Pushing, pulling, stretching, and shrinking will not really change it. There may be spectacular interim results. The baby may say the alphabet before she walks, master two-times or even ten-times table at three. In the long run, however, this forced precocity tends to be irrelevant. . . . Whatever gains there are become unimportant. The losses can be irrevocable.”

“In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and no return. The body remains, in a sense, a corpse, after the act of self-abuse. There is no change, only deadening. There is what we call dead loss. And this is not the case in any act of sexual intercourse between two people. Two people may destroy one another in sex. But they cannot just produce the null effect of masturbation.”

Source: Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Two Book Loss Humour Health Fruit Best Things Pleasant Spoil Recompense Studious Good Humour

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“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.”

Way Life Years Wells Two Sometimes Done Beautiful My Own Loss Steps Minutes Son My Family Saved Forty Two Years Target My Son Beautiful Things My Own Life Every Step Here I Am

Author:John Travolta

“When you suffer a loss, there is before the death and after the death - those become your two existences and your two realities.”

Two Reality Suffering Loss Existence

Author:Sophia Bush

“Most organizations only focus on WHAT they do and HOW they do it - tactics and strategies - and they aren't even aware that this thing called the WHY exists. Focusing on only two pieces of a three piece puzzle leaves an organization, or a career, inherently out of balance. Being out of balance, only operating on two of the three pieces, shows up in different ways - increased stress, loss of passion, obsession with what your competition is doing, being forced to play the price game, trouble differentiating. These are all signs that the WHY is missing.”

“There are two types of pain. There is the pain of loss, which you can recover. And then, there is the pain of regret which never goes away.”

Two Pain Loss Regret Type

Author:Donovin Darius

“Trust me, I've seen a lot of fighters come in hot and they disappear faster than they came in after a loss or two. This is the UFC and the best fighters in the world are here. If you fight the great fighters you're bound to lose.”

Ifs World Two Fighting Loses Loss Hot Bounds Disappear Fighter Faster Trust Me Ufc

Author:Clay Guida

“For me, it's not about sacking the quarterback. It's about changing the course of the game. It's causing a crucial fumble at a crucial time. It's making a tackle for a loss when the opposing team needs to gain one or two yards for the first down. I look at myself as a sudden-impact player.”

Needs Firsts Looks Two Courses Games Loss Player Team Gains Impact Crucial Yards Opposing Quarterback Sacking

Author:Simeon Rice

“A realistic definition of risk recognizes the potential loss of capital through inflation and taxes, and would include at least the following two factors: The probability that the investment you chose will preserve your capital over the time you intend to invest your funds. The probability the investments you select will outperform alternative investments for this period.”

Two Loss Risk Periods Taxes Investment Definitions Following Factors Alternatives Preserves Fund Realistic Probability Inflation Select

Book:Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation

Source: Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation

“We regard using [a stock's] volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return. Some great businesses have very volatile returns - for example, See's [a candy company owned by Berkshire] usually loses money in two quarters of each year - and some terrible businesses can have steady results.”

Years Two Loses Loss Results Company Risk Example Return Terrible Permanent Nuts Quarters Steady Candy Inadequate Great Business Volatility

Author:Charlie Munger

“My dad died in May of '97. The effects of his death immediately were not all that hard, but a year or two later it hit, when my job as Dad was sort of done and I was sending my kids to college. And somehow, the emotional intensity of that event mixed with the loss of my own dad, was kind of upsetting.”

Years Kind May Two Hard Done Kids Jobs My Own Loss Effects Events Emotional College Dad Died My Dad Upset Intensity Dad Died My Dad Died

Author:Wayne Watson

“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

“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.”

Wells Two Sometimes Happiness Order Loss Pleasure Wounds Well Being Breakup Hardship Get Over True Happiness Narcissistic Flattering

Author:Jean Leloup

“You should love something while you have it, love it fully and without reservation, even if you know you'll lose it someday. We lose everything. If you're trying to avoid loss, there's no point in taking another breath, or letting your heart beat one more time. It all ends...That's all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths.”

Ifs Knows Love Should Trying Heart Two Ends Life Is Loses Loss Space Beats Breaths Breathing Someday More Time No Point Space Between Reservations Heart Beat

Author:Leah Raeder

“I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about two boys and their love of kite fighting. But stories have a will of their own, and this one turned out to be this dark tale about betrayal, loss, regret. The short story which was about 25 pages long sat around for a couple of years.”

Writing Years Kind Long Two Stories Fighting Found Dark Loss Simple Boys Regret Couple Computer Pages Sitting Betrayal Tales Sat Short Story Nostalgic Kites

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“You go into the voting booths and you can rank your choices. So your first choice is an underdog that might not win, you know, that your choice number two, which might be your lesser evil, your safety choice, your vote is automatically reassigned from your first choice to your second choice if your first choice losses and there's not a majority winner. So it essentially eliminates, splitting it, eliminates having to vote your fear instead of your values.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Two Might Values Choices Evil Winning Loss Numbers Vote Safety Majority Winner Voting Underdog Splitting Lesser Evil Second Choice

Author:Jill Stein

“There are two kinds of loss of hope, one is the feeling when your pulse slows down and you are going to die, and there's nothing else left. The other loss of hope is when you're living in a country which becomes insecure, and you don't know what the future is. That's existential.”

Knows Kind Two Country Feelings Dies Left Loss Down And Existential Insecure Slow Down Pulse

Author:Marina Abramovic

“Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.”

Men Years Two Literature Memories Loss Tears Mets Graves Two Years Strife Foe Weeping

Author:Jean Paul

“In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.”

“The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.”

Ifs Men World Two Age Past Justice Loss Common Secret Knowing Youth Claims Bones Sly Age And Youth

Book:Cities of the Plain: Book 3 of Border Trilogy

Source: Cities of the Plain: Book 3 of Border Trilogy

“Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.”

Men Firsts Made Two Soul Ends Body Moving House Loss Lord Dog Son Cost Bird Brilliant Rage Fighter Broke Goddess Doomed Muse Achilles Zeus Iliad Sturdy Hurling Rage From The Iliad Agamemnon Carrion

Book:The Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.”

Two Moments Night Next Loss Relationship Perfection Two Things Next Day Fleeting

Book:The Memoirs of Cleopatra

Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra

“Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when their dream coincides with ours, the way two cutout designs laid one on top of the other might match. But dream worlds are not static like cutouts; sooner or later they change shape, leading to misunderstanding, loneliness and loss of love.”

World Way Two Dream Might Mother Universe Loss Heard Loneliness Design Shapes Sooner Or Later Misunderstanding Static Dream World Love Loss

Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two.”

World Two Next Loss This World Bears Consequence Tragedy Shock Fabric Ripple Cushions Great Tragedy

Book:Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound

Source: Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound

“We´re two, two for everything, for love, life, for a fight and pain, for hours of happiness. Two for wins and losses, for life and for death - TWO!”

Two Pain Fighting Winning Hours Loss Love Life Wins And Losses

Author:Karel Capek

“I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an echo of solitude and loss. In my ..reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and second hand dreams”

World Want Two Book Dream Hands Earth Loss Fiction Saws Solitude Reflection Riding Pale Echoes Spine Reverie Second Hand

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it, I was checking my e-mail every ten minutes, and my plugs of tobacco were getting ever larger, and my two drinks a night had worsened to four, and I'd achieved such deep mastery of computer solitaire that my goal was no longer to win a game but to win two or more games in a row--a kind of meta-solitaire whose fascination consisted not in playing the cards but in surfing the streaks of wins and losses.”

Source: Farther Away: Essays