Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.
Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.
Homesickness is universal. But Neapolitan homesickness goes back further than the accidents of domicile. It is nostalgia for love and loss themselves, a soul-sickness caused by the very idea of leaving.
Isaac Cline was a creature of his times. He embodied the hubris of his times and, in many ways, was a victim of the storm, not just in material ways - loss of a family member and damage to the town - but also in metaphoric terms.
Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.
The death of an Italian tailor might not be calamitous in Catania or Cagliari, but the loss to Soho is immeasurable. We don't have Italian tailors we can spare here.
History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
Our particular problem in America at this point in history is the widespread loss of the sense of individual significance, a loss which is sensed inwardly as impotence.
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.
I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style.
I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.
The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated.
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.
For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.
It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss.
If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.
