Lost Quotes

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

~ Emily Carr

Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we've lost our manufacturing, we've lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry. The last thing in the world we need to do is lose the ability to produce our food.

~ John Boozman

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

~ Voltaire

I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

~ Maajid Nawaz

When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind's search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom.

~ Myles Munroe

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

~ Muhammad Iqbal

In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country.

~ James Welch

Lost time is never found again.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

~ Horace Mann

Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.

~ Josh Billings

You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.

~ Rafael Nadal

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

~ José Rizal

In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.

~ Juan Williams

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.

~ Sylvia Earle

Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine! Softball is amazing that way as a sport. Everyone on the field has a slightly different ability that makes them perfect for their position.

~ Jennie Finch

I feel like I've lost so many amazing traits because I've listened to stupid people, ignorant people who are bullies.

~ Kylie Jenner

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

~ Elvis Mitchell

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

~ Colin Powell

There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.

~ Lena Headey

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.

~ Andrew Bird

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

~ Martin Luther

If you need me to tell you that if you serve God, you'll get a Mercedes, you're lost.

~ Paul Washer

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

~ Petra Nemcova

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

~ T. S. Eliot

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

~ Gene Wolfe

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

~ T. S. Eliot

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

~ Wendell Phillips

We've lost touch with our souls. We've been nourishing our minds, our relational skills, our theological knowledge, our psychological well-being, our physiological health... but we've abandoned our souls.

~ Mike Yaconelli

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

~ Steven Wright

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

~ Eckhart Tolle

I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I've never been able to replace him. Normally, most people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me; it felt disloyal.

~ Robert Crais

It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.

~ Betty White

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

~ Joseph Roux

Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

~ Patti Smith

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

~ William Ellery Channing

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

~ Russell Hoban

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

~ Oliver Stone

Mexico has lost its leadership, and a lot of that has to do with its poor performance and the lack of better results in our country.

~ Enrique Pena Nieto

In 2006 it was a horrible election year, and, you know, I lost. But I lost because I continued to be a constant conservative, and the last six years I was someone who was a national figure in the sense that I was the third ranking Republican in leadership and I had just run President Bush's campaign in Pennsylvania.

~ Rick Santorum

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

~ Ron Fournier