The Lost Quotes

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

And I remind you of your mother now? I have got to look into a manlier cologne.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

Everything that occurs teaches and prepares you for the next stage of life. Nothing is lost.

We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 per cent of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways.

You have never lost money in stocks over any 20-year period, but you have wiped out half your portfolio in bonds (after inflation). So which is the riskier asset?

I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.'

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a single small volume, I always chose Milton.

Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost.

Wakin' up to find another day. The moon got lost again last night, but now the sun has finally had its say.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged

Also, think about your intentionality - are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don't want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.

It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.

Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.

But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial.

Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.

No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

For you know that I myself am a labyrinth, where one easily gets lost.

After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.

There are no lost opportunities in Divine Mind, as one door shuts another door is opened.

Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.

And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

If my aim is to prove I am 'enough,' the project goes on to infinity-because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

I don't believe in angels but the moon is now dead for me. The last glass of wine is gone before the thirst I'm suffering from. The blue grass lost its way running away from your sails.

Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.

Spiritual life is absolute reality. Krishna is real but we have lost the ability to realize him.

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.

I love eating in it, brushing my teeth and swallowing the toothpaste in it. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.

It always amazes me how when we’re sure we’ve lost something for good, it winds up finding us.

Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.