#loss

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ↗

— Voltaire

#after #consider #energy #loss #most

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#fighting #fought #freedom #had #hope

After all, as a taxpayer, if I'm acting as the insurer against losses, I should have the right to say what risks the insured can take. ↗

— Jerrry A. Webman

#after #against #i #insured #losses

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#action #another #big #completely #dependent

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century. ↗

— Jack Welch

#century #china #company #couple #dollars

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops. ↗

— Gilbert White

#deer #harm #herds #injury #large

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. ↗

— Wendell L. Wilkie

#hate #liberties #liberty #loss #love

In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss. ↗

— Edward Bennett Williams

#effort #end #every #life #loss

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss? ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#i #loss #mean #songs #tragedy

I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#after #anything #because #city #death