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Friday, May 24th, 2024
the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Loss'

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It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.
Vin Diesel, American Actor (1967-  )
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
Annie Dillard, American Author (1945-  )
I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.
Jonathan Dimbleby, British Writer (1944-  )
If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.
John Dingell, American Politician (1926-  )
A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.
Phil Donahue, American Entertainer (1935-  )
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, American Poet (1894-1972)
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Thomas A. Edison, American Inventor (1847-1931)
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Tryon Edwards, American Theologian
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
Epicurus, Greek Philosopher
If I win seven tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.
Chris Evert, American Athlete (1954-  )
The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
Oriana Fallaci, Italian Journalist (1929-  )
Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.
Louis Farrakhan, American Activist (1933-  )
Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German Philosopher (1762-1814)
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
Sarah Fielding, -
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, English Director (1948-  )
There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.
Terence Fisher, British Director (1904-1980)
As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.
Steve Forbes, American Businessman (1947-  )
Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.
Luke Ford, Australian Writer (1966-  )
William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.
Glenn Ford, American Actor (1916-2006)
The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties.
John Foxe, English Writer
 
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