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Loss Quotes

"To win you have to risk loss."

Jean-Claude Killy, French Athlete

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"We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us."

Nancy Pelosi, American Politician

Loss, Congress, Will

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"The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency."

Sally Ride, American Astronaut

Loss, Pressure, Wrong

"It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world."

Arthur Helps, British Historian

Loss, May, Self, Spiritual

"He was a top man and a good professional. He was one of those who you know will never play a trick and you can ask him to do anything for you and he will. An unassuming man and a great loss to us all."

Geoffrey Boycott, British Athlete

Loss, Man, Play, Will

"One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy."

Mary Pickford, Canadian Actress

Loss, Man, Privacy, Public

"Let me talk to my mother. She is listening from above."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Loss, Mother, Heart, Talk

"One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss."

Mary Gordon, American Writer

"To waste time is to lose life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Loss, Time, Waste, Life

"I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories."

Washington Irving, American Writer

"The wealth of time we wastage, is worth much more than all the natural resources we have on the earth."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Loss, Time, Resources, Wealth

"I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq."

Charles Rangel, American Politician

Loss, Iraq, Nation

"I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two."

Jonathan Dimbleby, British Writer

"Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss."

Epicurus, Greek Philosopher

Loss, Possession

"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it."

James M. Barrie, British Playwright

"Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit."

Ulrich Beck, German Sociologist

"The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title."

Thomas Hearns, American Athlete

"The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

Loss, Disguise, Heir, Laughter, Weeping

"There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out."

Lou Reed, American Musician

"Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers."

Robert James Graves, Irish Scientist

"I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate."

Robert Torricelli, American Politician

Loss, Majority, Senate, states

"The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go."

Nicole Kidman, Australian Actress

"You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do."

Edward V. Lucas, American Writer

Loss, May, Now, Will

"Any life wasted or spent is gone and it will never come back."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Loss, Life, Wasted, Time, Irrecoverable

"The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit."

Morgan Freeman, American Actor

"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."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

Loss, Speech, Words

"The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg."

Peter Stuyvesant, Dutch Public Servant

Loss, Right, Succeed

"We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness."

Thucydides, Greek Historian

Loss, Lovers, Mind

"Time wasted can never be compensated."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Loss, WastedTime, Irrecoverable, Reflection

"No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth."

Ellen Terry, English Actress

Loss, Skill, Youth

"The pain of retirement means loss."

John Murray, American Publisher

Loss, Pain, Retirement

"All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking."

Robert Hass, American Poet

Loss, Old, Thinking

"If I win seven tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again."

Chris Evert, American Athlete

"A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone."

Paul Valery, French Poet

"I am truly sorry that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us."

Dave Winfield, American Athlete

"The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss."

George Reisman, American Economist

Loss, Property, Socialism

"What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring."

Don Shula, American Coach

"What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?"

William Broome, English Poet

"Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Loss, Prejudice

"Let me talk to my mother. She is listening from the above."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Loss, Mother, Heart, Talk

"I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else."

Ted Dexter, Italian Athlete

Loss, May, Wrong

"Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots."

Tracy Austin, American Athlete

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