Joseph Addison Quotes

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

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• There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Money
  • American
  • History

• I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite 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 - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

  

  Tacitus
  • Woman
  • Chastity

• I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Lost
  • Years
  • Over

• When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Girl

• 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
  • May
  • Society
  • Lost

• I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Lost
  • Friend
  • Day

• I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Together
  • House
  • Lost

• I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Remember
  • War
  • Lost

• One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Long
  • Man
  • Past

• Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Game
  • Lost

• With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Small

• One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

  

  Valerie June
  • Up
  • School
  • Lost

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

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Different
  • Lost

• I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single secret to 'Lost.' There isn't any one secret. There is not a unified field theory for 'Lost,' nor do we think there should be, because philosophically, we don't buy into that as a conceit.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Want
  • Lost

• As a people we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.

  

  Lewis Thomas
  • People
  • Lost
  • Health

• Al-Qaeda, which means 'the base' in English, lost its base and training camps in Afghanistan, while its leaders were on the run, captured, or dead. One year after the 9/11 attacks, al-Qaeda was still on life support.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Life
  • Support
  • Lost

• The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

  Mark Spitz
  • Unknown

• I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Time
  • Best
  • Keep Going

• To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Lost