The Lost Quotes

School is so overwhelming - you can get lost in the idea that yes, you are going to be alone.

You're listening to [the songs on Random Access Memories] and they're future classics. They've brought the sound of something that's been lost for a long time.

Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

America has lost an icon. Ronald Reagan's leadership will inspire Americans for generations to come. His patriotism and devotion to our country will never be forgotten.

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

Many who later lost faith in Fidel Castro can remember how they once admired the man who needed just a dozen men to launch the Cuban revolution.

Yeah! I got type-two diabetes! I'm sure there's going to be some media scandal now, saying I got it because I gained and lost weight for movie parts or something - but I doubt that.

Life is about recapturing lost freedoms.

There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.

…he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered.

Something significant has been lost.

I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.

We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics

Nothing's lost forever.

Those of you who are strong need to be there for those who have lost someone today. We have to be here for each other right now.

Its always when you think that youve lost a little of the baby weight that someone steps in grabs a handful of a now sans baby soft belly and asks the inevitable When are you due?

Juice fasting destroys your metabolic rate. I see a lot of women who are like, "Oh, I lost seven pounds and then I gained 10." That's not what detoxification is about.

I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost.

As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

England, Australia, Israel, a few staunch, important allies internationally. But we have lost a lot of international support.

But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.

In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.

Oh precious heart, you think you're lost, look down look down and find your feet. The next step is the path you're on

Everyone feels lost and low. It's how a person acts that makes them different.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

Sexuality is pushed back more and more and people try to replace what they've lost with other forms of excitement.

Was I in here last night and did I spend a $20 bill? Oh, thank goodness... I thought I'd lost it.

Remember, Lady Godiva put all she had on a horse and she lost her shirt!

Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good.

For time is inches And the heart's changes, Where ghost has haunted Lost and wanted.

I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.

We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.

I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.

The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.

Most complaints, you know, aren't won or lost on their own merits, but rather on larger issues--politics and the position of the planets.

James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.

For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times.

I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.

I--love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb-- Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb.

[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on.

we, in that instant, lost, breathless to be witnesses, as if we stood ourselves refreshed among the shining fauna of that fire.

Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.

There are a lot of ideas I've had that I originally was quite taken with, but over time, I lost steam. They stay on my list, but between me and you, I'm probably never going to do them.