The Lost Quotes

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

I don't suffer of anything that I've lost.

I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost? 'Tis better to have fought and lost That never to have fought at all!

The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost.

Battles are won and lost before they are fought.

When [disease] can't be stopped, that's where we become lost.

Donald Trump singled out three particular states where he claimed there was, quote, "serious voter fraud" - Virginia, New Hampshire and California. Trump lost all three of those states.

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

If you learn from a loss you have not lost.

No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost interest in hair-restorers.

It was not coincidental that we chose what's left If the universe has a will I think we are part of it Tender and precious How many times have I searched for something Found and lost it Since then?

Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,'

In 2010 there were a lot of folks who were still out of work. There were a lot of folks who had lost their homes or saw their home values plummet, their 401k's plummet.

You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.

I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.

Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.

Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

We hadn't lost morale. But when you fight for four quarters, it's tough to always bounce back. The offense kept us in the game the last two weeks and to get out with a win feels really good.

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.

The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.

Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.

I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones.

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

The motivation comes from the embarrassment of having lost and the way it sits with you.

Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.

Well when I was a kid, I asked Santa Claus for some toys. Santa Claus wrote me a letter that he lost his bag. He said he'd get back to me next year.

I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.

In America, we have lost millions of decent-paying jobs. That has got to end.

It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.

some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.

Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.

Just when I think the human race has been lost to the "what about me" people. I see the best we have to offer helping others.

Donald Rumsfeld also lost his gig last week. When asked what his future plans are, Rumsfeld said, 'What's a plan?'

I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.

I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.

If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.

When I saw that show Lost I learned something. Other than one sort of big dude if you're in an airplane crash only models survive. So you know sit next to somebody pretty, but anyhow.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

I lost in '96, in case the word hadn't trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.

In what might be a motto of those who sought the presidency and lost, Ted Kennedy once said, "Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."

Every day is the same thing out the door Feel further away then ever before Some things in life, it gets too late to learn Well, I'm lost somewhere I must have made a few bad turns

How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again.

There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die

My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The string came off!

When we see people as losers, we treat them with contempt. When we see them as lost, we treat them with compassion.

When the Republican Party is no longer the party of fiscal conservatism then clearly I would argue that we've lost our way.