Lost Quotes

Because of Obama's ill-advised actions, the world has lost American leadership.

~ Michael T. Flynn

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

~ Andrew Greeley

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

~ Totie Fields

I'm obsessed with cheese and milk, but eliminating them from my diet made the biggest difference. In a month and a half, I lost 11 pounds just from not eating dairy, without doing anything else different, and that totally blew my mind.

~ Khloe Kardashian

It was when my American coach Dan Pfaff came over from the States in 2009 and started working with me that we really began to look at my diet. He decided I was eating too many carbohydrates, so I cut back on bread. Over the next year I lost weight and became leaner.

~ Greg Rutherford

I remember when the Atkins diet arrived; I lost 16 lb in the first month, but when I stopped, it all went back on again.

~ Bonnie Tyler

After my first week of no wheat, my stomachaches were gone, my mucous cleared up, and I felt incredibly energetic. My headaches were also less frequent and less severe, and I had lost 3 pounds, most of it swelling and water weight my body had been holding onto as part of its response to the wheat products in my diet.

~ Daphne Oz

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

~ Lao Tzu

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.

~ Robin Williams

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

~ Khalil Gibran

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

~ Antisthenes

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

~ Steven Biko

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

~ Horace Mann

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

~ Francis Ford Coppola

During the course of 1989, more and more East Germans lost their fears of the state's repression and chicanery and went out on the streets. There was no turning back then. It is thanks to their courage the Wall was opened.

~ Angela Merkel

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

~ Emeli Sande

First of all, we have seen now in six years of Obamacare that it has been a disaster. It is the biggest job-killer in this country. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work, have lost their health insurance, have lost their doctors, have seen their premiums skyrocket.

~ Ted Cruz

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

~ Aristophanes

We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can do any job I want - but I think chivalry has been lost a little bit.

~ Michelle Dockery

The average Londoner knows just one neighbour. I travel a lot, and I'm always surprised by the strong sense of community in some countries. We've lost something fundamentally human, and we don't even realise it.

~ Lily Cole

I lost all my investments after everything crashed in 2001. Prior to that, I'd been living off the interest on my investments, which was very healthy because it allowed frequent travel, and I had a lovely apartment.

~ Marie Helvin

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

~ Italo Calvino

Mr. Trump of course feels sorry for what the Khan family has gone through, just, frankly, as he felt sorry for the victims that spoke before the Republican Convention who lost loved ones from illegal immigrant criminals coming in and being able to travel the country freely.

~ Paul Manafort

We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.

~ Dan Stevens

And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.

~ Nick Offerman

The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods.

~ Stephen Harper

What has gone catastrophically wrong in England and the States is that for 30 years we've lost the ability to talk about the state in positive terms. We've raised a generation or two of young people who don't think to ask, 'What can the state do that is good?'

~ Tony Judt

I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday.

~ Amy Weber

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

~ Elvis Presley

I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don't care about the characters, you've lost the audience. No one cares, and it becomes a process of watching people get killed.

~ Drew Goddard

The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in movies: David Lean's 'Brief Encounter,' Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' and Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love.'

~ Elvis Mitchell

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.

~ Brian De Palma

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

~ Robert Walpole

Scandals, corruption, partisan infighting - no wonder people have lost faith in Congress. I say enough is enough.

~ Joe Garcia

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.

~ Bill Cosby

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

~ Cyril Connolly

Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought.

~ James Mattis

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

~ James Wolcott