LOST QUOTES

• I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• Love has been the non stop spoken poetry of all time, but yet it's easily lost as love too is an infinity war.
  ~ Felix Menda ~
• Love hatches by time, nourished by moments covered by mesmerizing smiles, but yet it is easily lost.
  ~ Felix Menda ~
• Sweet, life most awsome feeling when gained there is a part lost.
  ~ Perez Bulinda ~
• A flame may be gone, but it's never lost.
  ~ Phoenix Moore ~
• Rage kills one's eternal Make one heart buried to the deep where there is no sky for the lost soul.
  ~ Felix Menda ~
• Never underestimate the power of time because time lost can never be regained therefore use your time profitably well.
  ~ Kakungulu Brenda Asasira ~
• Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge, Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
  ~ T. S. Eliot ~
• 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 what had brought them along.
  ~ Carl Sandburg ~
• To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness
  ~ William Makepeace Thackeray ~
• Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
  ~ Dante Alighieri ~
• Things that are not at all, are never lost.
  ~ Christopher Marlowe ~
• The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
  ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton ~
• Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.
  ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~
• Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen depart, be lost, but climb.
  ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~
• Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
  ~ Robert Frost ~
• Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.
  ~ Voltaire ~
• Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
  ~ Stephen Vincent Benét ~
• It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
  ~ Samuel Butler ~
• It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
• In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
  ~ Dante Alighieri ~
• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.
  ~ Voltaire ~
• I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• I have lost the half of myself - a soul for which mine was made.
  ~ Voltaire ~
• I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.
  ~ Carl Sandburg ~
• Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
  ~ Alexander Pope ~
• And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.
  ~ T. S. Eliot ~
• I stare in your eyes I get lost at sea, captain of my future preparations due to upscale our love increase its tender and care open your arms so I can hug you soothe you to distance.
  ~ Magod Scroef ~
• I love planting kisses in all the forgotten places- between the blades, the curves connecting legs to torso, the calf, the ankle, the nails, the places often ignored by love. This is the lost garden of intimacy, where love grove from lips.
  ~ Magod Scroef ~
• My reckless madness with your lost hopes will enrich electrifying lust lives.
  ~ Magod Scroef ~
• The person who has lost everything has lost nothing for he gained only what he had, which is nothing. Whatever he had, he got in this world which was someone else’s.
  ~ Jignesh Tailor ~
• Nothing ventured, nothing gained; yet nothing lost, no price to pay.
  ~ Wilhelmina Marie ~
• Don't be carried away by applauses, sometimes it's a sign of well done, and big lost in the other hand.
  ~ Effi David ~
• Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.
  ~ Conrad Black ~
• I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.
  ~ John Cleese ~
• To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.
  ~ Malcolm Turnbull ~
• About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.
  ~ Jane Pauley ~
• Most ball games are lost, not won.
  ~ Casey Stengel ~
• Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
  ~ Wendell Phillips ~
• The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.
  ~ Dick Cheney ~
• When all else is lost, the future still remains.
  ~ Christian Nestell Bovee ~
• Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.
  ~ Josh Mcdowell ~
• Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
  ~ Thornton Wilder ~
• A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.
  ~ James Wolcott ~
• Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
  ~ James Wolcott ~
• Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
  ~ James Wolcott ~
• A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
  ~ Frederick Douglass ~
• The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
  ~ Edward Gibbon ~
• Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
  ~ Barbara Kingsolver ~
• First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.
  ~ Queen Elizabeth Ii ~
• I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.
  ~ Thomas Friedman ~
• I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.
  ~ Thomas Friedman ~
• Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.
  ~ Lindsey Graham ~
• Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.
  ~ Lindsey Graham ~
• I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.
  ~ Harrison Ford ~
• I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
  ~ George Will ~
• And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on.
  ~ Brett Favre ~
• My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.
  ~ Kenny Loggins ~
• In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
  ~ Theodore Bikel ~
• In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
  ~ Theodore Bikel ~
• Food is a coping mechanism people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.
  ~ Phil Mcgraw ~
• Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
  ~ Horace Mann ~
• My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.
  ~ Mike Huckabee ~
• Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.
  ~ Gus Van Sant ~
• Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
  ~ Peace Pilgrim ~
• Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
  ~ Cyril Connolly ~
• Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
  ~ Cyril Connolly ~
• I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.
  ~ Erykah Badu ~
• My nutritionist has done a great job in changing my diet after we established I am allergic to things like gluten - I can't eat pizza, pasta and bread. I have lost some weight, but my movement is sharper and I feel great.
  ~ Novak Djokovic ~
• Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.
  ~ Harlan Coben ~
• I think I'm past the age of getting lost.
  ~ Amanda Seyfried ~
• I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.
  ~ Haruki Murakami ~
• Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
  ~ Gore Vidal ~
• Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
  ~ Gore Vidal ~
• I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
  ~ Larry Hagman ~
• France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
  ~ Charles De Gaulle ~
• In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.
  ~ Billie Joe Armstrong ~
• In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.
  ~ Tom Vilsack ~
• If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.
  ~ Jaron Lanier ~
• Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
  ~ William Ellery Channing ~
• My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.
  ~ Richard Branson ~
• My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.
  ~ Richard Branson ~
• Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
  ~ Samuel Smiles ~
• Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
  ~ Samuel Smiles ~
• Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
  ~ Samuel Smiles ~
• In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
  ~ Stendhal ~
• In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
  ~ Stendhal ~
• Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can't tolerate that because we fear that any mistake, no matter how minor, could have devastating consequences. So we proclaim the superiority of our own choices. We've lost sight of the fact that people have preferences.
  ~ Ayelet Waldman ~
• China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.
  ~ Ai Weiwei ~
• China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.
  ~ Ai Weiwei ~
• It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.
  ~ Betty White ~
• It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.
  ~ Betty White ~
• I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
  ~ Bruce Springsteen ~