At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain.
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.
People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.
My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.
In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
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.
I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
A word of advice, my sweet Emmett - mourn the losses because they are many. But celebrate the victories because they are few.
The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain.
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.
the book is intended to show how it is possible to live in and be enlarged by loss, even as we continue to experience it.
I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
