Lost Quotes

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.

Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it would each root's lost strength repair.

You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.

Hodgkin's is serious and I don't want to be dismissive about it, but there are people who have gone through much worse and lost their lives to cancer.

I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.

Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.

If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.

Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.

For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.

It's okay to be lost in college.

I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress... I got lost on the subway.

I believe the sense of lost opportunity is rooted in a faulty understanding of God's grace. Likewise, when grace is grasped and embraced, the Land of Opportunity becomes yours again.

O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.

I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.

We have North Shore, Hawaii and Lost all there, so they have softball tournaments between the casts. It's hilarious.

I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.

Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.

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.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

I think JLo and iggy azalea have lost their heads up each other's big butts.

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.

A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.

…balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.

All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.

Congress has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions.

Well, my favorite roles so far are Lucas and Lost Boys.

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

I like Arsene for his principles but principles are sort of a restriction and restrictions are always lost possibilities.

Shareholder value gets lost when things are done illegally, when corporate governance is not adhered to, when cohesive action is not taken.

You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.

Most people call my style of dress slovenly, I call it extreme casual. If I didn't have a mother and a sister for the times I do have to get dressed, I would be absolutely lost.

On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.

In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.

People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races.

Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.]