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. – Noel Gallagher
A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain. – David Whyte
As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you’re being handcuffed, it’s so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom. – Natasha Lyonne
I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It’s just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw? – Edward Norton
The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance. – Edward Hirsch
The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated. – Franjo Tudjman
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. – E. O. Wilson
History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful. – Noam Chomsky
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. – Miesha Tate
If you value your wins and you value what you’ve done over the course of your career, then you wouldn’t want people harboring over a loss, even though you fought extremely well. – Daniel Cormier
I think as you grow up, you have the adjustment to responsibilities. Now you could say that’s easy or not easy… but that’s a difficult period of your life. You have the loss of loved ones, which then means you have more responsibilities. Periods in business when things don’t run evenly. – Michael Kadoorie
What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense. – Dayananda Saraswati
You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that’s what I’ve done here. But it’s worth it to me to be in a really good play. – Dixie Carter
I always loved horror, but I read all sorts of books. My favourite as a child was ‘The Secret Garden’ which has a big influence on Lord Loss, believe it or not! – Darren Shan
Society isn’t good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss. – Darin Strauss
Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It’s a huge sacrifice. – David Duchovny
Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered. – Gustav Stresemann
Anguish over the loss of a loved one or feelings of helplessness have complex roots. But in the end, they make you feel bad because they adjust your brain’s chemistry. Happiness and its opposite are both electro-chemical reactions; those reactions are temporary and ineffable and could even have hidden benefits. – Eliot Schrefer
I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker. – Mike Figgis
When people have hearing loss, I think they often take that burden and pass it on to their friends and family, and we make them scream and yell at us so we can hear! But I think it’s better to take responsibility and wear hearing aids! – Norm Crosby
What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days. – David F. Houston
Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them. – Marion Ross
I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I’m around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise. – Nick Carter
Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services. – Paul Hawken
It is a tenet of my investment style that, on the subject of common stock investment, maximizing the upside means first and foremost minimizing the downside. The deleterious effect of permanent capital loss on portfolio returns cannot be overstated. – Michael Burry
The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. – Elizabeth Bishop
When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone’s affection, too. Fear of loss is not love. – Gary Zukav
