A lot of these types of films - the vigilante or revenge drama - were so popular in the '70s because there was a feeling in the culture of loss of control.
James Wan
CultureControlRevengeLossDrama
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
Douglas Haig
LossInitiativePolicyDefensive
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
Walker Percy
GriefPastLossOnlyYourGrieve
As I flew back from New Zealand to bury my mother, it occurred to me that no matter how harrowing her loss was and how keenly it will always be felt, there was, nevertheless, a sense of relief that my father, sisters and I could say a final goodbye after the longest goodbye and relief that my mum had finally been released.
James Nesbitt
FatherMotherMeGoodbyeLossBack
The commendable conduct of man is shown by his discriminate treatment of merits and sympathetic regard for pleasure and pain, profit and loss of others. The contrary course is reprehensible.
Dayananda Saraswati
ManPainLossProfitOthersCourse
There are people who intensely clutch an idea that yoga is a higher system, not to be lowered to the weight loss or even fitness category. This is the same kind of clutching that has kept yoga part of a tightly knit club for so long since its introduction in America.
Tara Stiles
FitnessPeopleAmericaLossLong
Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.
Gustav Stresemann
WarEndLossMeaningLostSerious
Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
Chilon
TimeMomentPainLossGainOther
Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'
Sam Taylor-Johnson
MyselfGriefI AmMeLossSometimes
My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.
Jim Ramstad
LifeManGreatnessMeAmericaLoss
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Honore de Balzac
BeautyAloneChildrenWomanLoss
Yoga has helped me to see death as more of a gift than a loss, and that has been my experience so far.
Christy Turlington
ExperienceDeathMeGiftLossSee
Strong automotive and enterprise sales and the positive impact of our expanded license agreement with Microsoft more than offset the loss of revenue from the former devices and services business.
Rajeev Suri
PositiveBusinessStrongImpactLoss
My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.
Jessica Valenti
WorkMarriageMotherTogetherLoss
The definition of 'safe' is not strictly an engineering term; it's a societal term. Does it mean absolutely no loss of life? Does it mean absolutely no contamination with radiation? What exactly does 'safe' mean?
Henry Petroski
LifeEngineeringLossMeanSafe
I was 13 when I developed the classic symptoms of a person who gets diabetes: a lot of weight loss, a tremendous thirst, and blurry eyesight. My mom took me to the hospital, and the doctors took some blood tests. My blood sugar was so high that they knew right away.
Bobby Clarke
MeMomLossDiabetesPersonSugar
It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?
Paramahansa Yogananda
FearHealthLosingSelfLossYou
I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.
Joe Torre
I AmLossBellShockedUmpireAm
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.
George Kennedy
WarWorldLossWorld War IIHearing
The tendency among Democrats, especially after a devastating loss, is to come up with either a new individual to lead us, a new strategy, a new slogan.
Brian Schatz
StrategyLossNewLeadIndividual
My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.
Natasha Trethewey
JourneyLosingMemoryLossSugar
If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.
John Dingell
ControlColleaguesGunLossYear
Facebook may not only propagate cyber-loneliness but exacerbate the pain of loss that estranged family members feel when they hear only indirectly, through a third-party posting, news of a child or parent with whom they have not spoken in years.
Eugene Kennedy
FamilyPainChildParentFeelLoss
I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.
Annie Lennox
LifeDreamsDeathExpectationsLoss
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