Lost Quotes - page 16

Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right." (Tallulah Bankhead)
Far from being the father of jihad, Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions because he was determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca. View quote
Karen Armstrong
My wife is on a new diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost weight, but can she climb a tree. View quote
Henny Youngman
No wonder you guys lost. View quote
Ann Coulter
I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
It is to hope, though hope were lost. View quote
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be. View quote
Sara Teasdale
If I am peaceful, I shall see Beauty's face continually; Feeding on her wine and bread I shall be wholly comforted, For she can make one day for me Rich as my lost eternity. View quote
Sara Teasdale
The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost. View quote
Edith Wharton
He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments. (Charles Spurgeon)
We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste. View quote
Simon Blackburn
The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare. View quote
Benjamin Graham
I am, I said To no one there And no one heard at all Not even the chair I am, I cried I am, said I And I am lost, and I can't even say why Leavin' me lonely still. View quote
Neil Diamond
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity." View quote
Athenaeus
When the Republican Party is no longer the party of fiscal conservatism then clearly I would argue that we've lost our way. View quote
Bobby Jindal
Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island. View quote
Bobby Jindal
The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul. View quote
Joseph Campbell
This generation has lost the true meaning of romance. There are so many songs that disrespect women. You can't treat the woman you love as a piece of meat. You should treat your love like a princess. Give her love songs, something with real meaning. Maybe I'm old fashioned but to respect the woman you love should be a priority. View quote
Tom Hiddleston
You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm. View quote
Sam Harris
I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam. (Sun Myung Moon)
In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats. View quote
Roberto Bolaño
Okay, uh, I'm lost. I'm angry. And I'm armed. View quote
Joss Whedon
An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects. View quote
E. E. Cummings
That which is imagined can never be lost. View quote
Clive Barker