When heads are at a loss bodies must serve.
- J R R Tolkien
For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies.
- Richard Adams
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
- Paul Valery
If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends of your arms - i you find yourself at a loss for what do with them, overcome with sadness that comes when you recognize the foreignnes of your own body - it's because your hands remember a time when the division between mind and body, brain and heart, what's inside and what's outside, was so much less.
- Nicole Krauss
Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried. Her father had most cruelly mortified her, by what he said of Mr. Darcy's indifference, and she could do nothing but wonder at such a want of penetration, or fear that perhaps, instead of his seeing too little, she might have fancied too much.
- Jane Austen
His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.
- Jane Austen
Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.
- Bill Bryson
the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.
- Voltaire
When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
- Adelbert Von Chamisso
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow.... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with?... Suicide is more respectable.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
- Noam Chomsky
I've come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I'm always at a loss for words.
- Joe Coomer
The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.
- Hart Crane
A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.
- Bret Easton Ellis
So ..." Jack clears his throat. "We ..."
Is Jack Coombs at a loss for words? I guess we don't have to worry about the performance since the world is clearly going to end.
- Elizabeth Eulberg
He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either.
- Garrison Keillor
She wanted the one thing he knew he would never be able to give her: the freedom to join him in his battles. The thought of Savannah in any kind of danger robbed him of the very air he breathed.Gregori was at a loss. For all his knowledge, all his power, he was unable to say the right thing to make it better for her.
- Christine Feehan
Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.
- Robert James Graves
Would you think it strange if I said I was having a good time? We're lost and confused and carrying around a cat. By all accounts, I should be feeling completely at a loss. Irritated.
- Shelley Shepard Gray
Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life....little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.
- Philippa Gregory
I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned into dust, and vampires flaked away. Demons had to be burned. Humans were very troublesome.
- Charlaine Harris
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
- Leigh Hunt
I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
- Washington Irving
I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
- Talib Kweli
A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
- Carolus Linnaeus
Frankly," said the Doctor, "I am at a loss to understand my own emotions. I can think of no entertainment that fills me with greater detestation than a display of competitive athletics, none - except possibly folk dancing.
- Evelyn Waugh
He was not used to being at a loss. Usually, he was the gentleman with the plan. Every little detail cataloged and put in its place. But now he had no place, and the details were everywhere.
- Lish Mcbride
Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at a loss.
- Seanan Mcguire
More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.
- Paula Mclain
The other day I met a man who didn't know where Tripoli was. Tripoli happened to come into the conversation, and he was evidently at a loss. "Let's see," he said. "Tripoli is just down by the - er - you know. What's the name of that place?" "That's right," I answered, "just opposite, Thingumabob. I could show you in a minute on a map. It's near - what do they call it?" At this moment the train stopped, and I got out and went straight home to look at my atlas.
- A A Milne
I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)
- Audrey Niffenegger
The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
- Richard M Nixon
There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.
- Tim O Brien
At the start of a new love as its ending, we are not exclusively attached to the object of that love, but rather the desire to love from which it will presently arise (and, later on, the memory it leaves behind) wanders voluptuously through a zone of interchangeable charms -- simply natural charms, it may be, gratification of appetite, enjoyment of one's surroundings -- which are harmonious enough for it not to feel at a loss in the presence of any one of them.
- Marcel Proust
You know you've got my support", Reid told him. "Whatever difficult decisions you need to make. All I would ask is that you e alert to..." For a moment he seemed at a loss.
"To what?" Louis said impatiently.
Reid picked up a votive candle from the dresser top and observed its flickering light. "The shimmer of things," he said. "The spirit and not the letter.
- Paul Russell
Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.
- Barbra Streisand
Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.
- Jack Vance
The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.
- Peter De Vries
- J R R Tolkien
For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies.
- Richard Adams
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
- Paul Valery
If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends of your arms - i you find yourself at a loss for what do with them, overcome with sadness that comes when you recognize the foreignnes of your own body - it's because your hands remember a time when the division between mind and body, brain and heart, what's inside and what's outside, was so much less.
- Nicole Krauss
Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried. Her father had most cruelly mortified her, by what he said of Mr. Darcy's indifference, and she could do nothing but wonder at such a want of penetration, or fear that perhaps, instead of his seeing too little, she might have fancied too much.
- Jane Austen
His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.
- Jane Austen
Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.
- Bill Bryson
the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.
- Voltaire
When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
- Adelbert Von Chamisso
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow.... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with?... Suicide is more respectable.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
- Noam Chomsky
I've come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I'm always at a loss for words.
- Joe Coomer
The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.
- Hart Crane
A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.
- Bret Easton Ellis
So ..." Jack clears his throat. "We ..."
Is Jack Coombs at a loss for words? I guess we don't have to worry about the performance since the world is clearly going to end.
- Elizabeth Eulberg
He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either.
- Garrison Keillor
She wanted the one thing he knew he would never be able to give her: the freedom to join him in his battles. The thought of Savannah in any kind of danger robbed him of the very air he breathed.Gregori was at a loss. For all his knowledge, all his power, he was unable to say the right thing to make it better for her.
- Christine Feehan
Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.
- Robert James Graves
Would you think it strange if I said I was having a good time? We're lost and confused and carrying around a cat. By all accounts, I should be feeling completely at a loss. Irritated.
- Shelley Shepard Gray
Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life....little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.
- Philippa Gregory
I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned into dust, and vampires flaked away. Demons had to be burned. Humans were very troublesome.
- Charlaine Harris
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
- Leigh Hunt
I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
- Washington Irving
I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
- Talib Kweli
A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
- Carolus Linnaeus
Frankly," said the Doctor, "I am at a loss to understand my own emotions. I can think of no entertainment that fills me with greater detestation than a display of competitive athletics, none - except possibly folk dancing.
- Evelyn Waugh
He was not used to being at a loss. Usually, he was the gentleman with the plan. Every little detail cataloged and put in its place. But now he had no place, and the details were everywhere.
- Lish Mcbride
Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at a loss.
- Seanan Mcguire
More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.
- Paula Mclain
The other day I met a man who didn't know where Tripoli was. Tripoli happened to come into the conversation, and he was evidently at a loss. "Let's see," he said. "Tripoli is just down by the - er - you know. What's the name of that place?" "That's right," I answered, "just opposite, Thingumabob. I could show you in a minute on a map. It's near - what do they call it?" At this moment the train stopped, and I got out and went straight home to look at my atlas.
- A A Milne
I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)
- Audrey Niffenegger
The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
- Richard M Nixon
There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.
- Tim O Brien
At the start of a new love as its ending, we are not exclusively attached to the object of that love, but rather the desire to love from which it will presently arise (and, later on, the memory it leaves behind) wanders voluptuously through a zone of interchangeable charms -- simply natural charms, it may be, gratification of appetite, enjoyment of one's surroundings -- which are harmonious enough for it not to feel at a loss in the presence of any one of them.
- Marcel Proust
You know you've got my support", Reid told him. "Whatever difficult decisions you need to make. All I would ask is that you e alert to..." For a moment he seemed at a loss.
"To what?" Louis said impatiently.
Reid picked up a votive candle from the dresser top and observed its flickering light. "The shimmer of things," he said. "The spirit and not the letter.
- Paul Russell
Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.
- Barbra Streisand
Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.
- Jack Vance
The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.
- Peter De Vries
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