My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss. – Marvin Sapp
For many, embracing the ideology of Osama bin Laden or ISIS allowed them to become the heroes of their own story as well as actors in a cosmic crusade. For others, a ‘cognitive opening’ to militant Islam was often precipitated by a personal disappointment or loss. – Peter L. Bergen
Donald Trump has a mantra of despair, of loss. He says we don’t have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don’t. And he says the American dream is dead. – Evan Osnos
I don’t think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy. – David Schwimmer
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. – Francis Bacon
Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It’s their job, to eulogize. I didn’t know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss. – Dan Quisenberry
The job of the poet is to render the world – to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do. – Mark Van Doren
I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss. – Marion Ross
I’m not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols – money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol – you become like what you worship. That’s one of the basic spiritual laws. – N. T. Wright
This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002. – Daniel Yergin
There’s a loss of autonomy that comes from not being able to own the wealth you’ve earned. – Monica Johnson
There are so few stories being produced that are human. I suffer with the loss of that. I feel kind of out of place, even though I’ve continued to work. – Parker Posey
Loss doesn’t feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death. – Meghan O’Rourke
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write. – Marguerite Young
What people recognize is that there’s a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward. – Michele Bachmann
If I cry, it’s about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics – no, I don’t cry. – Nancy Pelosi
My original project was called ‘The Wheel’; there’s a record out there called ‘Desire & The Dissolving Man,’ ‘The Memory Of Loss’ as well. There’s also ‘Falling Faster Than You Can Run,’ also ‘Closer’; all of that’s on our website. – Nathaniel Rateliff
I’m learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn’t know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat. – Mick Cornett
Good generalship is the realisation that you’ve got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life. – Norman Schwarzkopf
Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me. – Nicole Kidman
‘Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven’s the greatest pain in hell. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence. – Mohamed El-Erian
My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory – with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, ‘Give and Take,’ was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss. – Natasha Trethewey
But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago. – Merton Miller
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. – Mark Kelly
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art’s audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. – Paul Gauguin
Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me. – Meghan O’Rourke
I mean, people need to remember without the grassroots, Ronald Reagan probably doesn’t become president of the United States of America and he worked the grassroots on a regular basis during his political career and especially between the years of 1976 and 1980 after the loss in Kansas City. – Michael Reagan
