Waterboarding is slow-motion suffocation with enough time to contemplate the inevitability of blackout and expiration. Usually, the person goes into hysterics on the board. For the uninitiated, it is horrifying to watch. If it goes wrong, it can lead straight to terminal hypoxia - meaning, the loss of all oxygen to the cells.
Malcolm Nance
TimeLossEnoughMeaningPerson
Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase 'working up an appetite.' A few people with extraordinary willpower can resist such hunger day after day, but for the vast majority, weight loss through exercise is a flawed option.
Andrew Weil
DayPeopleLossExerciseWeight Loss
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.
Ellen G. White
GodSoulLossFavorOnlyJoking
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
Anne Grant
GriefPainSympathyProcessLoss
The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
Jack Dangermond
NatureChangeGoodGrowthLiveLoss
To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.
Maya Rudolph
MotherGrowLossNeverGrow UpUp
If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark comes to mind, the United Kingdom, they have suffered heavy losses at various points, the Germans as well.
David Petraeus
MindLossYouLookFindHeavy
You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.
Alice Walker
LoveOpportunityLossYouAccept
I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
K. A. Applegate
HateLossDownAnimalsCircusSee
The pain of retirement means loss.
John Murray
PainRetirementLossMeans
In Sheffield, we need support from the community and for the community. We need integration with no loss of heritage, and a clear appreciation of what is and is not acceptable.
David Blunkett
CommunityAppreciationSupportLoss
Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
AppreciationFightingEfficiencyLoss
I think the U.S. has ultrasensitivity about weight loss.
Harley Pasternak
ThinkLossWeight LossWeightAbout
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Robert Southey
FriendTimeSympathyLossMayLike
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Charles Caleb Colton
MenWarLossBadPrinciplesTyrants
When followed correctly, the Dukan Diet is both a safe and effective method of weight loss.
Pierre Dukan
DietLossWeight LossSafeWeight
Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'
Caitlin Doughty
FearControlCelebrateLossChoice
All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.
Robert Hass
ThinkingLossNewOldAbout
I think when Kevin Nash put himself on the booking committee and then gave me my first loss, that was beginning of the end.
Bill Goldberg
BeginningMeThinkEndLossFirst
Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
Sylvia Earle
HealthWorldResilienceLossLook
Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
FunLossTeammatesMoreIndividual
There's going to be different kinds of challenges on a yearly basis. You're going to have to overcome injuries, or you overcome a playoff loss or what have you. So there's always challenges in this business.
Jeff Fisher
BusinessChallengesBe DifferentLoss
A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.
Alexander McCall Smith
LossPowerfulThemeFictionVery
Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day.
Peter Heller
DayThinkFeelLossEvery DayGoing
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