Best 1979 quotes in «lost quotes» category

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours.

Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.

On the day he had colonic irrigation: 'I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.'

Opportunities are never lost, just found by those who clearly see the power of trends and timing.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Opportunity is never lost... it simply moves on to someone else if you don't seize it!

Or maybe I’d lost my soul already. I doubted God let someone like me keep any gift from him. It was highly likely I’d been born without one.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.

Over the period from 1988 to 2005, the income share of the top five percent has grown by about 3.5 percent of global household income, and the shares of all the other groups have diminished. The greatest relative reduction was in the bottom quarter, which lost about one third of its share of global household income, declining from 1.155 to 0.775 percent, and now is even more marginalized.

Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

Over the years, I'll admit, I lost the love for basketball a little bit.

Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank!

People could not get enough of what they had lost, even if they no longer wanted it.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.

People get over love. They can live without it, they can move on. Love can be lost and found again. But that won't happen for me. I won't survive you, Eva.

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost

People have fallen in love with words and lost the world. It’s time to regain it.

Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.

People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them.

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

Perhaps only those who had loved and lost could appreciate this magic.

Perhaps if only once you did enjoy The thousandth part of all the happiness A heart beloved enjoys, returning love, Repentant, you would surely sighing say, “All time is truly lost and gone Which is not spent in serving love.”

Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.

Please, by all the blessed saints and their bladders, tell me you two didn’t…Have you lost all semblance of intelligence? (Syn)

Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Policemen are numbered in case they get lost.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.

Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.

Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

Pray for the field. If God calls, then prepare for the field. When it is time, go to the field. A life lost for Christ is a life well spent.

Privacy is rarely lost in one fell swoop. It is usually eroded over time, little bits dissolving almost imperceptibly until we finally begin to notice how much is gone.

President-elect Donald Trump is not happy that he lost the popular vote. And this stat is probably not going to make him feel any better.

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!

Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.

Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.

Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

Real possession football, this. And Zico's lost it

Regret couldn't fix what he's broken. Apologies couldn't bring back what he's lost. What we'd lost.

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.