Lost Quotes

• Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Soul
  • Lost

• There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Question
  • Simple

• Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Men
  • Eternity
  • Pray

• I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.

  

  Amisha Patel
  • Beautiful
  • Lost

• The tannoy is crackling but I can only hear heavy breathing and snuffling. ... Uh-oh, the tannoy is crackling again. "Sorry about that, ladies and gentlemen, I momentarily lost hold of my pie.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Sorry
  • I Can
  • Breathing

• I was born in the summer of 1970, the last of five boys stretched over eight years. My parents were a struggling young couple who had been married one afternoon under a shade tree by a preacher without a church. No guests or fancy dress, just the two of them, lost in love, and the preacher taking a break from working on a house.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • House
  • Parents
  • Church

• I'm not super nostalgic for friendships I've lost along the way. I feel like, if they were truly meaningful and really special, they would still exist. I think we grow and change, and that's okay.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • Lost
  • Meaningful
  • Friendships

• Any film featuring Bradley Cooper's gorgeous blue eyes is automatically on my must-see list and they did not disappoint in 'The Words,' which is so intense and confusing that I was pretty lost by the end!

  

  Gayle King
  • Pretty
  • Words
  • Eyes

• One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days.

  

  Danielle de Niese
  • Children
  • Lost
  • Childhood

• It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Path

• I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Feeling
  • Period
  • Over

• The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Action
  • Lost
  • President

• When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Society
  • Opinion
  • Unique

• The Christian ecumenical movement will have reached its limit, meaning that Catholicism will have turned into Protestantism and Protestantism into agnosticism....But Islam will not have lost any of its rigour....Supernature abhors a supervacuum. With the death of institutional Christianity will come the spread of Islam.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Death
  • Lost
  • Christian

• Thank God I never lost that childlike innocence and the purity of vision and naivete. …That childlike innocence was most useful, because if I was a bit wiser, I wouldn't have been able to do anything, perhaps. So I'm glad I was not smart.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • God
  • Vision
  • Smart

• When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Lost
  • Perspective

• I respect the people that I lost to.

  

  David Fizdale
  • People
  • Respect
  • Lost

• There were a lot of manufacturing jobs lost over a long period of time and particularly after - during the Great Recession. We've had some recovery in manufacturing employment as the economy's recovered.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I used to hate iPhones. Before I got an iPhone, I used to be like, 'What are you doing, sitting there on your phone. Join the real world, man.' I categorically disliked iPhones. When my friends got an iPhone, I was like, 'Oh, we lost him.'

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • World
  • Real
  • Friends

• I'm just really appreciative of the loyal fans in St. Louis who just lost their team. It's not an easy situation to go through. On the other hand, we have to move forward.

  

  Jeff Fisher
  • Team
  • Lost
  • Hand

• I sit here for hours. It's like sitting amongst lighthouses, each lighthouse giving you a bearing on lost spaces of time...

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Lighthouse

• You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Lost
  • Die
  • Leaving

• I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Money
  • Eyes
  • Sea

• I lost my brother in a car wreck when I was 14 years old. When I decided I wanted to be a country singer, my dad always told me, 'Son, you should write a song about your brother.'

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Country
  • Song
  • Dad

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