The Lost Quotes

It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

Without hope we are lost.

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

It is the conditioned mind that says, 'I'm lost.' Let mind be lost. Lose your mind. Lose your mind inside your heart.

We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.

I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck is worthless. Bottlenecks govern both throughput and inventory.

No matter how sinful one may have been, if he has devotion to Mary, it is impossible that he be lost.

I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it.

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart.

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

Life's a game made for everyone and love is the prize. So wake me up when it's all over - when I'm wiser and I'm older. All this time I was finding myself and I didn't know I was lost.

If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once.

How can you beat someone thats already lost everything?

The longest journey begins with a single step.

Most of life's battles are won or lost in the mind.

Having no destination, I am never lost.

I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost

The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.

To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.

Then be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success.

When Germany and England and America will long have lost their present identity or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours.

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.

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

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.