Lost Quotes - page 7

War first, one hopes to win then one expects the enemy to lose then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. (Karl Kraus)
The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice. View quote
Denis Diderot
In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet. View quote
Erma Bombeck
I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so that they should not be lost, but, being developed in succeeding generations through publications in books, should gradually attain in later times, to the highest refinement of learning. View quote
Vitruvius
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything. View quote
Martha Graham
When all else is lost, the future still remains. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost. (Martina Navratilova)
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me' the State may be given up for lost. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All that time is lost which might be better employed. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy, You've had about seven hours' sleep since Friday, No wonder you feel that lost sensation You're sunk from a riot of relaxation. View quote
Ogden Nash
Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
We lost because we told ourselves we lost. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
If you can not answer a man's argument, all it not lost you can still call him vile names. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed. View quote
Federico Fellini
Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying. View quote
Walter Scott
Ne'er Was flattery lost on poet's ear A simple race they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile. View quote
Walter Scott
There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained. View quote
Pliny the Elder