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Quotes About Losses

My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.
~ Tara Brach
These close losses, when they stack up, two, three, four, five in a row, they change the tenor of a season.
~ Spencer Dinwiddie
There are some farmers who have been terribly discriminated against by the USDA. They've suffered tremendous losses and pain and anguish, and they deserve to be compensated.
~ Mike Espy
French losses, from August 1914 to 31 December 1915, came to 1,932,051 of whom no less than 1,001,271 were killed or missing. The British total in the same period was 512,420, of whom around 200,000 were killed or missing.
~ Robin Neillands
the capture of Douaumont took less than four hours and cost the 24th Brandenburg Regiment just 32 men killed and 40 wounded. It was later estimated that French losses resulting from the fall of Douaumont, or incurred in its recapture many months later, amounted to around 100,000 men.
~ Robin Neillands
Sometimes you learn your best lessons when you add up all your losses." She
~ Robyn Carr
Every culture, every era, exploits some few out of a great number of possibilities [of traditional institutions]. Changes may be very disquieting, and involve great losses, but this is due to the difficulty of change itself, not to the fact that our age and country has hit upon the one possible motivation under which human life can be conducted.
~ Ruth Benedict
Despite the curse, despite the losses you might endure, she knew now that love was the only thing that lasted. It was inside you and with you for all eternity.
~ Alice Hoffman
So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses.
~ Alice Munro
I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and gains are really not symmetric. So we really feel more pain when we lose $10,000 than we feel pleasure when we get $10,000.
~ Daniel Kahneman
As alleged, David Hu directed a multimillion-dollar, years-long scheme to defraud investors. Putting profit ahead of his fiduciary duties, Hu allegedly mismarked millions of dollars of loan assets to cover up millions in losses. Hu also created fake entities and loans, and falsified paperwork to deceive auditors and avoid detection.
~ Audrey Strauss
When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
~ Eddie Bernice Johnson
how you remain disciplined and objective in the market that matters most. Strict compliance with rules would help to free you from unexpected pains resulting from losses.
~ Frank Miller
I do not send their Lordships the particulars of our losses and damages by this, as it would take me much time; and I am willing none should be lost in letting them know an event of such consequence.
~ John Byng
The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
~ Jack Youngblood
You're writing about young, vibrant people; there are wins and losses. In other words, it's great drama.
~ Frank Deford
So much is predicated on wins and losses to enjoy life. Every single person loses every week, so it is unrealistic to say you shouldn't enjoy the process. They are unrealistic expectations.
~ Bethanie Mattek-Sands
I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.
~ Andy Roddick
When losses mount, leveraged investors such as Long-Term are forced to sell, lest their losses overwhelm them. When a firm has to sell in a market without buyers, prices run to the extremes beyond the bell curve.
~ Roger Lowenstein
Great losses are great lessons.
~ Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Due to your merit karma, your efforts will bring you success and when the merit karma is expended, your efforts will bring in losses.
~ Dada Bhagwan
You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
~ Ann Brashares
And while the losses were small they weren't gains, were they? They were losses. He was tired of losing, and tired also of the company, and so he had gone by himself to the movies.
~ Saul Bellow
Leaves around the door are penciled losses.
~ John Ashbery