They Lost Quotes
72 They Lost quotes by 64 unique authors
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While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for…
— John Yoo
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I see the people in the tabloids, the ones that get bad press, who have kind of gone off the edge, and I try to…
— Cory Monteith
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And on nearby islands, the Japanese army was eating raw fish. We felt sorry for them. We didn't know that in America after the war,…
— Bob Hope
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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.
— Troy King
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Crist noted that his office has received multiple fraud complaints in which potential buyers said they lost thousands of dollars. I don't know if we've…
— Charlie Crist
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I know of a few multimillionaires who started trading with inherited wealth. In each case, they lost it all because they didn't feel the pain…
— William Eckhardt
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I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.
— Criss Jami
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Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed…
— Paul Farmer
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of…
— Carl Sandburg
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I'm a planner, and most networks don't plan. Bravo doesn't plan. Bravo is lucky in a lot of ways - they've got a lot of…
— Patti Stanger
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In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When…
— Edward Gibbon
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And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory…
— John Steinbeck
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I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that…
— Albert Camus
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At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end.…
— Nathanael West
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Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not…
— Ayn Rand
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Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.
— Jean Baudrillard
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But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going,…
— Ayn Rand
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Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.
— Christopher Pike
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in that small [time] most greatly lived this star of England: Fortune made his sword, By which the world's best garden he achiev'd And left…
— William Shakespeare
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You'd better get onto MI6. They'll be in charge of security at the airport." "Of course." Sir Graham moved toward the door. He stopped and…
— Anthony Horowitz
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They expected to lose. And therefore, they lost. [..] People who start thinking deep dark thoughts in the middle of a war start expecting to…
— Michael Scott
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When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of their…
— Mary Pipher
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Fue adondo a mi me perdieron quw logre por fin encontrarme? Was it where they lost me that I finally found myself?
— Pablo Neruda
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I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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