Best 1979 quotes in «lost quotes» category

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

As it turned out, Welcome was where I lost everything, and gained everything. Welcome was the place where my life was guided from one track to another, ending me to places I'd never thought of going.

As it turns out, that feeling of being lost or listless or never achieving your potential doesn't contain itself within any certain decade of life; it just lives in you until you learn how to cope with it or let it go.

Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost you temper, and never got down on yourself.

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

Assad must go. He's lost the legitimacy to govern.

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.

At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the "mis-de" and you just got meaner and meaner.

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.

A true servant of Mary cannot be lost.

attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.

At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.

At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.

A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.

A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.

A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I craved prostitutes, base women, because they were deadly and hard and made no personal demands. Nothing was lost when they left. Yet at the same time I yearned for a gentle, good woman, despite the overwhelming price.

Battles are won and lost before they are fought.

…balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

Balancing is hard. I've lost roles that I really wanted because I had set up a tour. I cancelled tours to do roles before. But I have to find the time to make that up to my audience. I made a commitment to them.

Because of 'Lost,' particularly, J.J. Abrams's fans are all over his stuff.

Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

Be aware that who you are and what you have to offer can be a beacon to some lost soul.

Before I was paralyzed, there were 10,000 things I could do; now there are 9,000. I can either dwell on the 1,000 I've lost or focus on the 9,000 I have left.

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

Before starting work go thru all the former material. Many things of vital importance have been lost sight of.

Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ.

Before I began seeing a therapist, I lost a few iPhones due to chucking them across a room.

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.

Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love.

Being lost is worth the being found.

Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.' Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?

Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Business neglected is business lost.

But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself and she had - her heart.

Blessings are not known till they be lost.

But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost. Especially when one is leaving the wide, wild world - and returning to the place you once fled.