Lost Quotes

The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.

If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.

There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.

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

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.

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.

I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.

The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost.

There are many, many people who have lost 100 pounds and kept it off.

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.

There were certain people who were out to get me. I know who those people were. They exist, believe me. They know that I know. They spent millions of dollars in order to try to get rid of me. I'm happy they lost most of their money.

I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

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."

But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A.

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it.

Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.