Lost Quotes
If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.
I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.
If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.
I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.
I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.
We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.
But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.
Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way...Or now and then we'll hear from an artisit who's never lost it.
A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
In thigh-high yellow leather boots Plump Saphonisba strides. Too bad that, just to hide her calves, Two calves have lost their hides.
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--
O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it.
I wouldn't care if he lost both his legs and was in a wheelchair. But it he's having a hard time...Then I won't see him.
We are part animal, part human, and part divine, and the moment we forget the possibility of any one of those, we are lost.
The race is lost. You can't overtake here and I'm starting from 15th... It's over already.
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.
To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.
I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.
After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.
Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.
I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors.
A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.
Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.
It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.
For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right.
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.
And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In the dust of desertion. Still falling where last I loved.
People need to know that they are God. We mostly do not recognize that. We've lost the sense of our own divinity.
There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.
Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors.