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My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. -- Isabel Allende
Frank Schirrmacher's passing is a great loss. Among the intellectuals, he, along with Friedrich Kittler, was the only one who understood the philosophical dimensions of the Internet. -- Hubert Burda
Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear. -- Christina Baker Kline
There's no great loss without some small gain. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper. -- Eckhart Tolle
Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world. -- Henry Clay
It's a great loss.[Carrie Fisher] was a comic genius, as far as I'm concerned. -- Tony Taccone
I do believe that great love brings with it the terror and possibility of great loss. -- Emily Susan Rapp
To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss. -- Chris Womersley
If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss. -- Erica Jong
[John] Hughes is a great loss, I think. He was the first filmmaker that could look at someone who was young without seeing them as being less. -- Judd Nelson
To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false! -- Blaise Pascal
The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia... I always thought Malcolm would be around a lot longer. I must say, I wished he had been. -- Julia Gillard
The Rolling Stones suffered a great loss with the death of Ian Stewart, the man who had for so many years played piano quietly and silently with them on stage. -- Andy Peebles
Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours. -- Barbara Cooper
Most medical personnel remain largely unfamiliar with non-medical treatments, and tend to dismiss them without knowing about what they're dismissing. This is a great loss to the doctor as well as to the public. -- Andrew Saul
One of my favorite albums of all time is Michael Jackson's "Thriller". Every song is superbly written, performed, and produced. He is a great loss to the music world. There will never be another one like him. -- Daryl Stuermer
The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him. -- William Hazlitt
I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. We tell the story to get them back, to capture the traces of footfalls through the snow. -- Gail Caldwell
I like Iron Maiden and a few other bands, but by and large I don't like metal music. Most of it simply put reeks. This meant that it was no great loss for me to drop the metal music altogether. -- Varg Vikernes
but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps. -- William Butler Yeats
In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be ?replaced? by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten. -- George Lucas
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. -- Thomas Jefferson
I remember, when I was a little kid, I was good at sports, and I could jump off the high board. And then puberty hit, and suddenly I was looking to boys for direction. I remember that as a great loss. -- Francine Prose
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
I don't feel part of the world. No one needs me or wants me or even likes me very much. I don't like myself. The world will keep turning without me. I'll be no great loss. I'm just a temporary misuse of a minute amount of carbon. -- Barbara Elsborg
I don't feel part of the world. No one needs me or wants me or even likes me very much. I don't like myself. The world will keep turning without me. I'll be no great loss. I'm just a temporary misuse of a minute amount of carbon." -- Barbara Elsborg
He was a terrific guy. It is a great loss to the sports world. Wilt Chamberlain had a special place in basketball history and he will be missed. We had many battles with Wilt. He was a fun guy to be around; he was a 'Gentle Giant.' -- Tom Heinsohn
When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence of anyone who is suffering or dying is beyond death. -- Eckhart Tolle
I am free, and always have been; free to accept my own reality, free to trust my perceptions, free to believe what makes me feel sane even if others call me crazy, free to disagree even if it means great loss, free to seek the way home until I find it. -- Martha Beck
The impact of the earthquake on mental health was huge and unimaginably deep in people's lives. Some lost all benchmarks and references because of their great loss, we still have people coming to clinics with mental health problems related to the earthquake. They talk about the earthquake, about being under the rubble. -- Reggie Fils-Aime
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. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
Michael Jackson is the reason why I do music and why I am an entertainer. I am devastated by this great loss, and I will continue to be humbled and inspired by his legacy. My prayers are with his family. Michael will be deeply missed, but never forgotten. He's the greatest, the best ever. No one will ever be better. -- Chris Brown
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. -- Paul Valery
I have more energy to run after our four children. Weight loss and great skin were a bonus! -- Niecy Nash
I'm a girl who enjoys a great meal with great friends, so I'm not really that concerned about weight loss. -- Jill Scott
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. -- Francis Bacon
You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss. -- Salman Rushdie
The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.' -- Edward Herrmann
I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires. -- Andrew Motion
My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America. -- Jim Ramstad
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not. --
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
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
People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss. -- Bianca Jagger
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
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In the five years since the end of the Great Recession, the economy has made considerable progress in recovering from the largest and most sustained loss of employment in the United States since the Great Depression. -- Janet Yellen
The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse. -- Anne Perry
After clearing the land, planting the orchard, building the house and barn, and surviving the Great Depression, our father died suddenly one winter night when we were small, leaving us to learn about loss before we even knew its name. -- Virginia Euwer Wolff
Great teams work harder after a tough loss. -- Ron Brown
But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss. -- Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
You always recognize great champions... how they come back from a loss. -- Georges St-Pierre
Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong. -- Rosanne Cash
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art. -- David Mamet
Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise. -- Walker Percy
A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result. -- Henry Cloud
Any great movie you watch has some element of darkness or loss or some suffering in it. That's what makes the fun parts fun. -- Pete Docter
The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred. -- Samuel Beckett
The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Death is a great tragedy"¦a profound loss"¦I don't accept it"¦I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death. -- Ray Kurzweil
The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every new age. -- Anton Ehrenzweig
Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we could give them? -- Vincent de Paul
Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as a forced win. -- Emanuel Lasker
I, first of all, felt a great sense of loss, a sense of condolence for the friends that I had that were killed in that, for the loved ones. -- Hugh Shelton
The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed. -- Honore de Balzac
A great mix of tips, tricks, and anecdotes, All is Forgiven, Move On has excellent ideas for your weight loss journey and for improving your life along the way! -- Judith S. Beck
Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank. -- John F. Kennedy

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