The Lost Quotes

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

Yes, I have loved, Ms. Lane, and although it's none of your business, I have lost. Many things.

Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.

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

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

I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don’t even get to mourn.

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.

You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.

Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction.

Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.

In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.

He is the vampire that had the greatest love of all times. And lost the greatest love of all times.

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.

When I lost my weight, I went and bought about 15 different types of underwear to see what would look good on my new body. It's exciting!

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.

Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit lighter and more flexible than I was.

Everything changes, nothing is lost.

Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do. ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will destroy trust.

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!

I can see the humor in just about any situation. After I lost my dad, I realized that none of us should take things too seriously, because everything except death works itself out.

I've lost six different times. You can't say, 'Well, he lost, that's the end of the world.' You have to say, 'Okay, you lost, what did we do wrong?

I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]

Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.

Now may this little Book a blessing be To those that love this little Book, and me: And may its Buyer have no cause to say, His money is but lost, or thrown away.

I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.

Karate has helped me lots, otherwise I might have got lost in substance abuse or something like the things a lot of other people do.

When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. I want to get lost in the rock and roll, and drift away.

If character be irrecoverably lost, then indeed there will be nothing left worth saving.