#loss

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls. ↗

— Katharine Lee Bates

#chains #hour #souls #thy #time

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. ↗

— Martha Beck

#arrows #behalf #comes #death #else

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#blossom #fairest #gratitude #soul #springs

When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual. ↗

— James Belushi

#across #beautiful #body #chair #collective

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#cannot #directed #done #employing #forced

Paco, we are all so much more than our faults, aren’t we? ↗

— R. Elizabeth Carpenter

#loss #love #widow #love

I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it. ↗

— Paul Darrow

#because #carefully #colossal #disappointment #every

Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#loss #means #number #over #skills

There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#course #cyclical #job #job losses #losses

I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#bbc #deplore #i #loss #two