Lost Quotes

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

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

We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.

Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.

I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way, and criticisms along the way, but if you look at the totality of the show, or the experience of it as a whole, I think as long as you look at it from that perspective you'll be happy.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever.

Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.

I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.