#loss

Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#apparent #benefit #does #entail #loss

Every weight loss program, no matter how positively it’s packaged, whispers to you that you’re not right. You’re not good enough. You’re unacceptable and you need to be fixed. ↗

— Kim Brittingham

#dieting #diets #fat #weight-loss #diet

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. ↗

— Max Muller

#blossom #cannot #flower #live #man

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

#disaster #filled #hard #intent #losing

I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#been #brick #collapse #due #i

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#corrupts #does #fear #loss #perhaps

And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company. ↗

— Thomas Malory

#company #enough #fair #fellowship #good

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. ↗

— Alexander Meiklejohn

#arising #dangers #foolish #freedom #gains

Ambivalence is one of the biggest enemies of change. If you aren't sure that you really want to take action on something such as your weight, ambivalence will usually win. ↗

— Linda Spangle

#weight-loss #change

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

#biased #both #crimes #data #dead