Lost Quotes - page 17

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do? (Ralph Ellison)
Each lost day has its patron saint! View quote
Bret Harte
She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Always Sir Arthur lost so much blood that it was a marvel he stood on his feet, but he was so full of knighthood that knightly he endured the pain. View quote
Thomas Malory
Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance. View quote
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
You have to learn how to help a wounded child while still practicing mindful breathing. You should not allow yourself to get lost in action. Action should be meditation at the same time. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time. View quote
Napoleon Hill
To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity. View quote
Timothy Garton Ash
One of the problems, hanging out with me, is that I can turn any topic into a toxic horror story. I've lost two girlfriends and a job by reading an ingredients label out loud, with annotations, at the wrong time. View quote
Neal Stephenson
The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again. (Brendan Behan)
I don't believe in fashion dictatorship, and I find that anybody who follows the dictates of fashion is a bit lost. I'm excited by style, not so much by fashion. View quote
Marc Jacobs
The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place. View quote
Michael Chabon
Come poor, lost, undone sinner, come just as you are to Christ. View quote
George Whitefield
I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit. View quote
Dick Francis
If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe. View quote
Walter Lippmann
Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten.It was in the blood, the flesh,And now it is forever. View quote
Greg Bear
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. View quote
Joseph Roux
No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there. View quote
Peter Ackroyd
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion. View quote
Douglas Hofstadter
Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill. The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets, So he that tastes woman, woman, woman, He that tastes woman, ruin meets. (John Gay)
The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets. View quote
John Gay
All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally. View quote
Douglas Coupland
The only advice that I'm in the mood to give - and that I give regularly - to young people is this: fight for what you believe in. You will lose, just like I have lost, all the battles. But only one you may win. The one that you engage every morning, in front of the mirror. View quote
Indro Montanelli
We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers. View quote
Oswald Mosley