Lost Quotes

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A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost — Laozi
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds… — Vaclav Havel
Follow your heart and you won't get lost. — Brett Dennen
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost. — Tryon Edwards
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in,… — John C. Maxwell
I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark… — Jack Kerouac
Never ignore someone who loves you and cares about you. 'Cause one day you may realize you lost the moon while counting stars. — John O'Callaghan
Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She was the wife… — Leonard Cohen
You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative… — Sylvia Plath
When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of all the centuries that the… — Barack Obama
The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the… — Mac Thornberry
I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering,… — Rabindranath Tagore
I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday. — Amy Weber
I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for… — Jackson Browne
What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he… — Viktor E. Frankl
I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious… — Meghan O'Rourke
We have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them. — Benjamin W. Chidlaw
If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'.… — Elizabeth Edwards
It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge.… — Gore Vidal

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