Lost Quotes

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.

The reason I love Luis Palau is because this is a guy who is completely all about evangelism and reaching people and the lost with the gospel.

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself.

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.

Money? I lost all taste for it.

First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

Football lost its excitement for me.

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years.

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.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.

I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.

I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Without hope we are lost.

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.

I've been shooting the ball and running a little bit. It's just going out here now and forgetting that I've been out and try to get back in and make sure I know what's going on out there on the floor and that we're just not lost as a team.

I've lost my faith in science.

I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.

I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.

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.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

The Emmy that I lost, and I can't remember his name, I lost to the man who did the Olympics. So, it was great to lose to him. It's the Olympics.

The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team.

I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.

The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.

My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.

I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind.

I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment.

Because of 'Lost,' particularly, J.J. Abrams's fans are all over his stuff.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.

I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass.

The President's proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent.

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

I have to do a show which is of interest to me, or else I'm lost.

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the landscape of Saturday morning cartoons - it was so unique. It was a live-action show and kids were in it, these creatures, these Sleestaks and dinosaurs. Every week was a different adventure. I couldn't wait. I loved it so much.

Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.

When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.

I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

Lost time is never found again.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.