Best 1979 quotes in «lost quotes» category

When I ran across America, for 75 days I ate 10,000 calories a day. I still lost about five pounds.

When I say 'I am a Christian', I'm not shouting 'I'm saved'. I'm whispering 'I get lost'. That is why I chose this way.

When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it's losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed to be doing and the idea of what my value was to God. I lost all of that at least.

When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.

When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.

When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

When we give way to joy, we do not feel that we have lost control, but gained freedom.

When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves, they're also working on reclaiming the lost soul of the culture as well.

When you get to a certain age, you don't get lost. If you have a good set of pals around about you can have a great life.

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.

When you have the most votes of anybody that tells you where the party is. I think the party got lost to a certain extent.

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

When you resort to shouting in conflict, you are reacting in the flesh. You have lost control of the only person you can control: yourself.

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.

Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.

Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?

Why?” Eve leaned forward. “Sincerely, I’ve always wanted to know why anyone buys multiple pairs of shoes at a time.” “If I have to explain it, the joy is lost.

... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.

With big productions, you can sometimes get lost with the terminology and all the different departments.

Without hope we are lost.

With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained

Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost.

Without education, there is no hope for our people and without hope, our future is lost

Without wisdom, gold is quickly lost by those who have it.

With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.

Witihin seconds the headhunter had lost control of his car and it squealed, sliding sideways right into several other cars. Cool!' said the Gasman.

[...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift?

Work extra hard on the beginning of your story, so it snares reader's instantly. And know how you're going to end your story before you start writing. Without a sense of direction, you can get lost in the middle.

You can now buy a pack of beer containing 99 cans. A 99-can pack of beer. Who says America has lost its competitive edge?

Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will be my moment again, perhaps once again I shall understand nothing, I shall grasp that other knowledge, found and lost in an instant.

Yet, should thy darkest fears be true, If Heaven be so severe, That such a soul as thine is lost, Oh! how shall I appear?

You are all a lost generation.

You can get lost, pretending to be someone you're not.

You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.

Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear.

Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.