Best 1979 quotes in «lost quotes» category

I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck is worthless. Bottlenecks govern both throughput and inventory.

I shot you, all right," he said, "and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it yet. I gained something, too." What?" I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.

I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.

I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.

I speculate that the genesis of the chicken-joke lies in some situation such as the one illustrated above, but over time the original context of the joke was lost, which left the chicken sadly decontextualized.

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost.

I suddenly said, 'I'm sick of losing'. After that, I trained hard and I never lost there again.

I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost.

Is woman a lost sex? If so, is she the only lost sex? Has woman alone conceived all the vipers in our land?

Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy.'

It depends on your specific conception of God, because belief can equally well leave you with this constant sense that you're coming up short and you're being judged and you're not doing quite the perfect thing. You know, I was brought up very religiously, and I never totally lost that sense, you know, that I'm screwing up.

I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.

I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me.

It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.

I think Bernie's [Sanders] setting a direction in the way that [Barry] Goldwater when he lost - I'm not saying he's going to lose. We don't know what is going to happen. It's early. But I think he's already set a lot of themes.

I think American industry has lost perspective about their products.

I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone.

I think if I lost an edge, or the music didn't have the aggression or whatever, which is maybe one of the hallmarks of what I do, if indeed it is, I still think if you have something original in what you do and you keep doing that, then you're all right.

I think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .

I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

I think I've lost 3lbs - I'm very, very happy. I thought of it as work and a spa.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.

I think you can only be nostalgic for something you've lost.

it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

It is better to have loved and lost, but only if you have a good attorney.

It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.

It is not lost on me that I'm spending my honeymoon at Comic Con.

It is not lost time to wait upon God!

It is possible to have second chances. When I thought everything was lost, when I reached bottom and things didn't go my way, the universe gave me a second chance.

It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.

It is only through timidity that states are lost.

It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.

It is the conditioned mind that says, 'I'm lost.' Let mind be lost. Lose your mind. Lose your mind inside your heart.

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

It is to the dead that the life comes; it is to the unloveable that the love comes; it is to the lost that the salvation comes.

It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies a society and a culture... A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its culture.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

It is those who get lost, who find the new ways.

It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.

It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy beetle crawled on - which was just what you wanted it to do.

It's easier and more cost effective to maintain good health, than to regain it once it's lost.

I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh.

It's also important to develop a burden for the lost.