Lost Quotes

The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

I loved. I lost. So I learned to love what is never lost. Then even what I loved that can be lost was through what cannot be lost...so it was never lost.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

We've lost our competitive spirit. We've become so obsessed with making kids feel good about themselves that we've lost sight of building the skills they need to actually be good at things.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.

God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.

I never cared,” he said. “I wanted you anyway. I always wanted you.

Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.

It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by hopes in any League of Nations, but only by the force of arms.

Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.

We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

When You've lost it all....thats when you realize that Life is Beautiful.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.

To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.

In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.

Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours.

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain]

To talk with God, no breath is lost. Talk on! To walk with God, no strength is lost. Walk on! To wait on God, no time is lost. Wait on!

I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.

You might win some, but you just lost one.

We come from nothing, we are going back to nothing-In the end what have we lost? Nothing!

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.