Lost Quotes

• We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother's keeper.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Lost
  • Brother

• And that one hunting, which the Devil design'dFor one fair female, lost him half the kind.

  

  John Dryden
  • Design
  • Devil
  • Hunting

• I was having these terrible back pains, and then one day in Switzerland, things got very bad. My wife Maryanna called the hotel doctor, but I don't remember any of this, I was out of it. I had an operation, and I was nearly lost.

  

  John Tavener
  • Remember
  • Bad
  • Wife

• The part in 'Philadelphia' where I represent the law firm that's firing Tom Hanks, that was a hard part for me because I lost one of my best friends to AIDS, and it was hard for me to play a part that wasn't sympathetic to someone with AIDS.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Friends
  • Law
  • Lost

• I guess it feels to me that the political argument that has been lost in my lifetime is taxation. How do you engage in that debate when people don't trust politicians at all? It is almost impossible to start a conversation about taxation.

  

  Johann Lamont
  • People
  • Political
  • Trust

• A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those titles have been very successful and interesting to watch. Any time anyone refers to any of those great shows, I'm flattered.

  

  Marie Avgeropoulos
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.

  

  Gabrielle Roth
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Wonder

• To be the windowpane - this is basically a bastardization of what Orwell said about good writing - so you can get the conversation going and frame it the right way and make sure people aren't lost. And then you let the candidates illuminate the issues themselves.

  

  John Dickerson
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• I didn't have a teen age at all. I didn't even look at boys, never mind... then suddenly it was like, 'Oh my god!' So I made up for a lot of lost time very quickly. It was kind of bonkers. Working hard, partying hard - but also experiencing life, you know.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Lost

• They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Joy

• After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on the computer, looking for 'adaptive snowboarders' or 'snowboard legs' or 'adaptive snowboard schools' or just something that I could connect to. I already knew how to snowboard - I just needed to find the right legs.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Remember
  • Lost

• One of the problems, hanging out with me, is that I can turn any topic into a toxic horror story. I've lost two girlfriends and a job by reading an ingredients label out loud, with annotations, at the wrong time.

  

  Neal Stephenson
  • Time
  • Job
  • Reading

• I’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.

  

  Beatrice Sparks
  • Lost
  • Cracking
  • Fragmented

• You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Travel

• I might be trying to change the world, but I also better be funny while I'm doing it. I've never lost sight of that.

  

  Bill Nye
  • World
  • Trying
  • Funny

• I remember when I was very little my idol was Britney Spears. I had just come to California and that's just who I wanted to meet. So I was in a store and she walked in and my jaw just fell to the floor. I started like sweating. I could not believe that I was meeting her. She told me that I was very cute. And I lost it — I was so excited.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Believe
  • She
  • Remember

• The Egyptians saw the sun and called him Ra, the Sun God. He rode across the sky in his chariot until it was time to sleep. Copernicus and Galileo proved otherwise, and poor Ra lost his divinity.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • Time
  • God
  • Sleep

• ... this song is all about a woman who has lost someone near and dear to her.

  

  Stuart Adamson Big Country
  • Song
  • Woman
  • About

• Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore.

  

  Ann Hood
  • Family
  • Father
  • Future

• The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.

  

  John Vinocur
  • Lost

• It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Done
  • Lost

• I have a voice: I want to share my beliefs about how the conservative movement and the Republican party can regain its footing, because we've lost our way.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Lost
  • Party

• Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent me. "You lost this," he said. I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behind. "I'm shedding.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Black
  • Single
  • Leaving

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