Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
Loss means losing what was we want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.
I have a very pessimistic view that every win takes you closer to a loss because no-one in the world can keep on winning forever.
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.
I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.
Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging.
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.
After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is a very risky vehicle, much more risky than even flying airplanes in combat.
Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.
One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.
Every fight and every loss taught me something.
I know the first thing I want to do when I come back from a loss is to get in the gym and get better.
Any kind of loss helps when you talk about it.
Although in my life the level of loss has never reached the extremes it does in 'The Winter People,' I certainly can identify with being both a daughter longing for her mother and being a mother who is almost scared by the intensity of her love for her daughter.
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.
I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.
Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.
Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain.
The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.
No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.
American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.
We have serious challenges regarding climate change, unsustainable use of natural resources, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, forests and farmland. Not to mention the huge inequality still prevailing in several parts of the planet.
Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.
It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.
I think when Kevin Nash put himself on the booking committee and then gave me my first loss, that was beginning of the end.
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and the songs are of heartache and loss. The main connection is they both came up in church.
