#loss

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#american #american men #american women #boring #gain

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#programming #successful #takes #weight #weight loss

But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago. ↗

— Merton Miller

#big #comes #down #gain #huge

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#contemporary #defeat #form #greatest #identity

I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#blight #blossoms #cheerful #count #far

Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#casualties #cause #computer #cyber #day

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#bring #double #general #likely #loss

I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#also #asleep #believer #connection #deep

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#convalescence #exercise #had #i #long

I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

#blossoms #drop #figure #flower #fruit