I have a very pessimistic view that every win takes you closer to a loss because no-one in the world can keep on winning forever. – Bronte Campbell
NBC News found that FEMA has redrawn maps even for properties that have repeatedly filed claims for flood losses from previous storms. At least some of the properties are on the secret ‘repetitive loss list’ that FEMA sends to communities to alert them to problem properties. – Bill Dedman
Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated. – Guy Davenport
Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one’s loss is precisely the other’s gain. – Eric Liu
If your depiction of loss doesn’t make the reader feel loss, then you didn’t depict it right. – Marlon James
I look at western literature and especially North American literature, and I feel like it gets bogged down so much with all of that, with domestic stories and relationships and a woman dealing with the loss of her husband. – Miguel Syjuco
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses. – Caleb Carr
Many of depression’s symptoms – exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain – are physical ailments. – Gayle Forman
If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it. – Christopher Gadsden
I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that’s always a possibility, and if you’re professional, then you deal with it professionally. – Nancy Pelosi
An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don’t lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they’re not perceived as a big loss. – Daniel Pauly
I’m not afraid of terrorism at all. I’m afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship. – Patti Smith
We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due. – David Whyte
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender. – Douglas Haig
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I’m going to talk about later, was that when you’re there, it’s not good enough to be there, when you’re there, you better walk away with that ring. – Don Shula
You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today’s world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent things happen in the dark when no one’s watching, whether it’s an oppressive dictator or someone causing violence in the inner city. – Peter Diamandis
Hillary Clinton’s loss has exposed the lack of Democratic power in this country at all levels. – David Brock
Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You’d think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being; right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space. – Dick Cavett
Such is my experience – not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost! – Deborah Sampson
Horrible things happen all our lives; we all experience loss and death and trauma. Usually, most people, I think, we just get on with it. We don’t have a whole soliloquy in the middle of something. – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur. – Gavin Newsom
American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That’s why that song has found the niche that it has. – Don McLean
Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place. – Eric Clapton
