Quotes with lost

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  • Arna Bontemps Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
    Arna Bontemps
    American poet, novelist and librarian
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  • Oscar Wilde It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • James Thurber It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Groucho Marx It is better to have loft and lost than to never have loft at all.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Anaxagoras It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
    Anaxagoras
    Greek philosopher (500 - 428)
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  • Vance Havner It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Madame Guizot It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.
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  • Voltaire It is only through timidity that states are lost.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Anna Freud 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
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • David Hume It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Janet Frame It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.
    Janet Frame
    New Zealand author (1924 - 2004)
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  • Bjorn Borg It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Barbara Windsor Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.
    Barbara Windsor
    English actress (1937 - )
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Frances Rodman Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.
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  • Gene Wolfe Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
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  • Tallulah Bankhead Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, ''I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.''
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Albert J. Nock Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Stephen Vincent Benét Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
    Stephen Vincent Benét
    American poet, short story writer, and novelist (1898 - 1943)
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