Quotes with lost

Quotes 121 till 140 of 373.

  • Josh Billings If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bill Cosby If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • George Borrow If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • Bobby Moynihan If you watched 'Lost,' sometimes the episodes were crazy good, and sometimes you're like, 'That one was just sorta there.'
    Bobby Moynihan
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1977 - )
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  • Taylor Swift If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.
    Taylor Swift
    American singer-songwriter (1989 - )
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  • Bianca Kajlich In 2003, he was hit by a subway in Prague and lost both of his legs. It made me realize that we take for granted every step we take, and my brother now has to physically challenge himself to take each step in his prosthetic.
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  • Ben Horowitz In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Nigel Farage In Britain, what we've done is say to 485 million people, 'You can all come, every one of you. You're unemployed? You've got a criminal record? Please come. You've got 19 children? Please come.' We've lost any sense of perspective on this.
    Nigel Farage
    British politician, activist, political commentator and broadcaster (1964 - )
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  • Ben Carson In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Stendhal In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • Bill Dedman In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Carl Honore In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • V.S. Naipaul In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
    A Bend in the River (2012) 52
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Alfred Whitney Griswold In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
    Alfred Whitney Griswold
    American historian and educator (1906 - 1963)
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  • Russell Baker Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
    Russell Baker
    American journalist (1925 - )
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  • Graham Greene Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • A. E. Housman Into my heart an air that kills
    From yon far country blows:
    What are those blue remembered hills,
    What spires, what farms are those?

    That is the land of lost content,
    I see it shining plain,
    The happy highways where I went
    And cannot come again.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Quentin Crisp Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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