Lost Quotes

• I would like to like to make one thing clear at the very outset and that is, when you speak of a train robbery, this involved no loss of train, merely what I like to call the contents of the train, which were pilfered. We haven't lost a train since 1946, I believe it was - the year of the great snows when we mislaid a small one.

  

  Peter Cook
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Small

• He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Things
  • Trusts

• If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.

  

  Homer
  • Lost
  • Sense Of Shame

• No amount of time will weaken our allegiance to avenging those lost in the horrible attacks. America has a sharp memory, a firm resolve, and a commitment to her own.

  

  John Doolittle
  • Time
  • America
  • Commitment

• The women here are the ones that hold the families together. So if my mom were to be unhappy with me, in a way, it would be like I would have lost my entire family.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Women
  • Family
  • Together

• This morning I thought, hence lost my bearings, for a good quarter of an hour.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Good
  • Lost
  • Morning

• I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Dream
  • Lost
  • Vocabularies

• One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.

  

  Friedrich Durrenmatt
  • World
  • Lost
  • Fire

• The fact that I lost my mum was horrible, and if I could change anything, I would definitely change that.

  

  Lennie James
  • Lost

• If there is love, there is hope that one may have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Real
  • May

• No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Life
  • Time
  • War

• We are hearing from consumers who are saying 'I called in an order, I placed an order online, and it wasn't executed timely,' and as a result they lost money.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Money
  • Order
  • Result

• History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Time
  • History
  • Changes

• I was depressed. I knew I was lost, but I had no idea how to find myself again. It was as though I was a different person, an infuriating, disappointing yet indispensable person whose body was my only home.

  

  Yasmina Khadra
  • Different
  • Home
  • Lost

• My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.

  

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
  • Parents
  • Lost

• All that time is lost which might be better employed.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Time
  • Lost

• I think any woman who has lost a child and certainly lost more than one child, there's going to be a part of them that they keep closed off forever.

  

  Jean Smart
  • Lost
  • Forever

• The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you've lost your mind completely: You've entrusted your mental health to a self-aggrandizing twit with a psychology degree and a yen for a yacht.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Help

• That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Worst Moments

• 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

• While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Space
  • Cutting
  • Comic

• People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

  

  Ben Mezrich
  • People
  • May
  • Lost

• Mexico has lost its leadership, and a lot of that has to do with its poor performance and the lack of better results in our country.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Country
  • Lost
  • Leadership

• I felt ill at ease with all this air about me, lost before the confusion of innumerable prospects.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Lost
  • Air

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