Best 1979 quotes in «lost quotes» category

Africa is trying to find its way back to a sense of itself, when much of that was lost through colonization.

After all the evidence is in--after you've run all the facts by everything you know--and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith.

After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.

After the war I was going to make up for lost time. But the time I spent away, it's still lost. No matter what I do, it stays lost.

Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.

A game is not won until it is lost.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

A good impression is lost so quickly.

A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.

A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost.

Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.

Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.

Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

All love is lost but upon God alone.

All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.

All that is not given is lost.

All of you have now lost your virginity... in Physics!

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us.

All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us towards the eternal truths shown beneath a veil, and to lead us to recover what we have lost.

All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.

All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.

A loss is a loss, examine why you lost. A win is a win, evaluate what made you successful.

Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost.

A lost article invariably shows up after you replace it.

A lost trail always extends beyond the evidence, and even the trails we find are only fragments of the trails that lie beyond our comprehension.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

A lost job can put a smile on any shareholder's face.

Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.

A lot of the times I'm looking at something that I discover is part of a larger framework and not just a couple jokes. I see that it's a set, a story that I'll be telling. Sometimes I get lost in that.

Always look for your lost ones in trashcans.

A lot of the players I'm with, thank God, we're all still vertical. We've lost so many great players through the years, and we're still standing, as Elton John says.

Although we lost it has been a great Test and one of the best I have ever played in. Hopefully the next one will be exactly the same.

A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.

Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.

A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.

A man once said when the legend gets bigger than the man, you've lost the man and you have an unrealistic picture.

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by

And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market

And he's lost both right front tires.

And it was different because I'd already lost her so many times, so many ways, in my head. And different because she was never really mine to lose. And different because this wasn't my fault.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!