Lost Quotes

• The origins of my career as a peace mediator can be found from my childhood years. I was born in the city of Viipuri, then still part of Finland. We lost Viipuri when the Soviet Union attacked my country. Along with 400,000 fellow Karelians, I became an eternally displaced person in the rest of Finland.

  

  Martti Ahtisaari
  • Country
  • Career
  • Peace

• I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.

  

  Elizabeth Strout
  • Time
  • World
  • Believe

• I'm at the point where you look back on your life and reflect. I've always been an unbelievable critic of me. If we lost a game, I blamed myself every night. I'm very proud of some of the things I did as an athlete, as an executive.

  

  Jerry West
  • Life
  • Game
  • Night

• When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.

  

  Curtis Stone
  • Food
  • Lost
  • Cool

• During the 1990s, luxury became something exclusive and elitist. I think fashion got lost. It forgot about craft and culture.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Fashion

• In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.

  

  John Burdett
  • Thinking
  • Understanding
  • Poverty

• I think I've always had that bird's-eye view of myself. I think it's an actor trait... Sometimes it's best just to get lost out there, but other times you have to be aware of where the light's hitting you.

  

  Allison Williams
  • Light
  • Lost
  • Bird

• In running my own company, I was too busy for a while, and I thought, 'Maybe I'll stop dancing for a bit.' It was the worst decision ever. I just lost my creativity and my drive.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Running
  • Stop
  • Decision

• She looked back to see Sam standing there at the edge of the strip of sunlight inside Common Grounds, staring after her with an expression on his face like he'd lost his best- his only friend.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Friend
  • Expression

• I remember being told by my very first photographer that if I lost weight, and I was a skinny model, it would do wonders for my career. My mum got really defensive - 'I don't think we will be doing that, thank you so much, goodbye.'

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Remember
  • Career
  • Model

• 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 pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces How is it that you have sent me only a thousand? 'You said nothing,' you tell me, 'and this cause was lost through you.' You ought to give me so much the more, Sextus, as I had to blush for you.

  

  Lawyer
  • Lost

• Most of the characters I'm drawn to, as an actor, are ones that are quite intensely lonely and a bit lost and are looking for some kind of redemptive answer.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • Lost
  • Lonely

• I knew that what I had felt was envy or regret, not for something lost but for something never achieved.

  

  P. D. James
  • Lost
  • Regret
  • Envy

• It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

  

  Anna Freud
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Lost

• I was a daredevil before, and after I lost my sight I was the same. I loved riding bikes, scooters and horses. I even learned to box. Muhammad Ali is my hero.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Lost
  • Hero

• Love was the bedrock of Jesus' life, the very reason He came to seek and save the lost.

  

  K. P. Yohannan
  • Life
  • Reason
  • Jesus

• The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions.

  

  Andrew Strauss
  • Lost
  • Generation
  • Occasions

• I lost all connection with the outside world and was immersed in a world of darkness. I was scared that my existence would fade silently. No one knew where I was, and no one would ever know. I was just like a small soybean-once fallen to the ground, it rolls into a crack in the corner. Being unable to make any sounds, it will forever be forgotten.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • World
  • Small
  • Forever

• I accomplished what I set out to do, but I lost my discipline and my career.

  

  Pete Maravich
  • Career
  • Lost
  • Discipline

• We used to speak Irish - Gaelic Irish - around the dinner table, but over the years, we lost that.

  

  Genevieve O'Reilly
  • Lost
  • Irish

• Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?

  

  Brian Greene
  • Black
  • Lost

• I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.

  

  Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
  • Lost
  • Broken
  • Homeless

• Money lost-nothing lost, Health lost-little lost, Spirit lost-everything lost.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Money
  • Health
  • Spirit

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