Lost Quotes
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How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.
B. C. Forbes
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Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.
Robin LaFevers
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The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.
Juan Gris
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Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
Abraham Lincoln
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I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.
Joan Didion
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Except, how do we go on when what was best is behind us? When the longing is not for someone you have not yet met, but for someone you knew and lost?
Binnie Kirshenbaum
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If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.
Catherynne M. Valente
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There are moments when one feels a desperate gratitude for museums, whatever their own ambiguous histories. Their objects from lost cities lead us back to who we are.
Amy Davidson
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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
Bjarne Stroustrup
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I will offer to Him both my tears and my exultation. Nothing we offer to Him will be lost.
Elisabeth Elliot
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'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.
William Shakespeare
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If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else.
Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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After I lost my legs, I got invited to my old high school, and I shared my stories with all the classes. I remember I was so nervous and didn't know where to start, but I knew I had information they could take away.
Amy Purdy
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You're never out of the game until you've lost the final point.
Ana Ivanovic
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If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station.
Martin Rees
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We pick up the lost bits and pieces, from the grass where we left them, and bring them with us into a future that will be made up of so much more as well.
Varg Vikernes
Burzum
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The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.
Frank Chodorov
