Lost Quotes

8700 quotes by 4750 authors

Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and… — Theodore Dreiser
If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned… — C.S. Lewis
Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost.… — Dante Alighieri
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit — Bernard Baruch
In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while… — Jack Kornfield
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy
I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about… — Michael Jordan
We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan… — Colin Powell
In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia. — William Westmoreland
Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a… — Frederick The Great
Nothing's changed my life more. I feel better about myself as a person, being conscious and responsible for my actions and I lost weight and… — Alicia Silverstone
It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever… — Janet Frame
The poet is a madman lost in adventure. — Paul Verlaine
Nine! The Navy Diver is not a fighting man, he is a salvage expert. Ten! If it is lost underwater, he finds it. If it's… — Billy Sunday
We lost, and that's the main thing that went wrong, — Mike Krzyzewski
People say it was the greatest individual rivalry they've ever seen. I agree with that. Let me assure you that if either Wilt's or Russ'… — Bill Russell
I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional distances to pile up the… — Roger Ebert
To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature. — Hermann Hesse
But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day — Joni Mitchell
She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or… — William Shakespeare

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