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«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»
Author: Carolus Linnaeus (Botanist, Zoologist) | About: Plants | Keywords: at a loss, at first glance, botanist, botanists, detects, distinguish, glance, globe, Globe and, Marks, quarters, The Globe, The Plant
«Compare all this ribaldry, blasphemously called the Word of God, with the Almighty power that created the universe, and whose eternal wisdom directs and governs all its mighty movements, and we shall be at a loss to find a name sufficiently contempti»
Author: Curtis McDougall | Keywords: at a loss, blasphemously, governs, Movements, ribaldry, the Almighty, Word of God
«As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.»
Author: Avram Noam Chomsky (Activist, Linguist) | Keywords: arise, at a loss
«When at a loss how to go on, in speaking, cough»
Author: Greek proverb | About: Losing | Keywords: at a loss, cough
«A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.»
Author: Paul Valery (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: at a loss
«Death is never at a loss for occasions»
Author: Greek proverb | About: Death and dying | Keywords: at a loss
«My upbringing made me as I am now. But I can become merry and happy at once. There were many years I was feeling at a loss about my life or how I grew up. I couldn't understand what is right or what is precious. At that time, I was so miserable and self-defeating. I was feeling angry with various things. My anger came up to the surface then. I don't say such tendency has disappeared. Even now there are anger and the dark side in myself. But it's the first time I've been so close to the light.»
Author: Johnny Depp (Actor) | Keywords: angry, at a loss, at once, came, close to, closing time, Dark Side, Dark Side of the, defeating, disappeared, first light, grew, loss, make merry, merrier, merry, miserable, precious, self-defeating, surface, surfaces, tendency, The Dark, The Light, The More the Merrier, upbringing, various
«I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.»
Author: Washington Irving (Writer) | Keywords: at a loss, of my own
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