Lost Quotes - page 2

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. (Carl Sagan)
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The United States never lost a war or won a conference. View quote
Will Rogers
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose. View quote
Evan Esar
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. View quote
William Shakespeare
Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for teaching is a lost tradition. View quote
Jacques Barzun
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. View quote
Tim Berners-Lee
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future. View quote
Winston Churchill
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. View quote
Winston Churchill
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. (Eugene O'Neill)
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. View quote
Harriet Tubman
Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. View quote
John Adams
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. View quote
Thomas Fuller
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. View quote
Graham Greene
I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories. View quote
George Carlin
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. View quote
Thornton Wilder
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. View quote
Ernest Renan
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason. View quote
Elie Wiesel
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost. (Gertrude Stein)
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. View quote
Brooke Shields
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me." View quote
Joseph Addison
In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis