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Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light.
The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.
What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life
I have no interest in bailing out anybody, quite frankly, and I think banks have to suffer every dollar of loss if they make a bad loan.
The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.
. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.
When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.
Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.
That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.
In this industry, it's sad that a superficial thing like weight loss can actually define your career, but if that is the case, so be it.
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
A loss is just a loss. You get up again, dust yourself off, go at it again regardless of the circumstances. That's the way I look at it.
In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.
There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.
The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.
Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag -if they do, they must be consequences -perhaps loss of citizenship or year in a jail.
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.
All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it.
While most of us are trying to be more frugal, the loss of a job, a divorce, or a medical emergency can quickly sink us deeply into debt.
When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.
What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.
Don't even wait until you've lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat on the back.
There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.
We have to live with it, sometimes these coincidences do happen. They are obviously huge losses but we will just have to get on as we are.
Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!
If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn't have any feeling of loss. And that goes for Rottweilers, too.
Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.
Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.
And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.
I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.
As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.
The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.
Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return.
I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.
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.
There are two types of pain. There is the pain of loss, which you can recover. And then, there is the pain of regret which never goes away.
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.
It's not the victories that count to me. It's the quality of how you deliver your losses and the quality of how you deliver your victories.
Expanded credit access has helped households maintain living standards when suffering job loss, illness, or other unexpected contingencies.
I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.
The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, / Rejoice in the magical ring.
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.