Lost Quotes

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I've seen attack ships on fire on the shoulder of Orion, I've seen moon beams glisten at the Ten hauser gate, all those memories, lost… — Rutger Hauer
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has… — H. L. Mencken
Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place. As… — Daniel J. Siegel
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity. — Charles Spurgeon
People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost their appetite for what is… — Cesar Chavez
When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little earlier,… — Cesar Chavez
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates… — Friedrich Nietzsche
You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the… — Paul Newman
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile. — Walter Scott
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame. — Plautus
Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the… — Jerome K. Jerome
At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch… — Jacques Maritain
If I ever lose my mind I hope some honest person will find it and take it to Lost and Found. — George Carlin
The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit… — H. L. Mencken
The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough. — Benjamin Franklin
Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them. — Plautus
How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not so much that… — Jackie Kay
And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, sons and… — Ronald Reagan

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