Lost Quotes

The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.

If I'm known as the girl that lost weight and it's been six years later and I've still kept off the 110 pounds, God bless. Because I never kept off 100 pounds before in my life.

Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.

The only paradise is paradise lost.

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.

I lost boundaries as a child that I didn't even realize it and it wasn't talked about back then. You know, it was something you just buried and dealt with, and moved forward. What could you do about it?

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.

Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really appreciate it when you have lost it.

While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.

I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

A perfect record does not mean that someone is the greatest. Rocky Marciano never lost a fight, but I never hear anyone say he's the greatest heavyweight champion of all time.

If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost 2 1/2 million jobs since the stimulus package passed. We're at 9.6 unemployment. So I don't think we tax too little, I think we spend too much.

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.

I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.