I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him. — Emo Philips
The longest journey begins with a single step. — Patanjali
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. — Confucius
If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. — John Foster Dulles
I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it. — Nhat Hanh
I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home. — Kelly Preston
Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.
I Am Lost Quotes
Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in your service, and to promote your kingdom — David Brainerd
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i see. — John Newton
By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project. — Spencer Bachus
I lost myself trying to please everyone else. Now I'm losing everyone while I'm finding myself.
If I know that I am the tiniest speck of dust around for a split second only, then why was I so upset when my fantasy football team lost on Sunday? — Tim Urban
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. — Samuel Johnson
I am not an adult, that's my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and shyness of the bashful, backward child, unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in my own silence. — Jean Arthur
We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we have lost our connection to ourselves.
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child — Adrienne Rich
Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little. — Italo Calvino
Feeling Lost Quotes
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. — Edmond de Goncourt
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. — Nicholas Sparks
You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you — Tablo
Always tell someone how you feel, because opportunities are lost in the blink of an eye but regrets can last for a lifetime.
The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong. — Masaru Emoto
Remember, time lost cannot be regained.
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. — Paulo Coelho
I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson. — Emo Philips
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Paradise Lost Quotes
Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. — Henry Van Dyke
Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n. — John Milton
I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost. — Henning Mankell
Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers. — John Milton
All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield. — John Milton
A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world. — Jim Morrison
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds. — John Milton
Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep. — John Milton
Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. — John Milton
..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down. — Harlan Coben
Being Lost Quotes
Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted
A vision without action is merely a dream
Action, it's the grind, it's the hustle, it's the persistence — Kevin Gates
You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach. — Jon Stewart
Sometimes when you lose your way in the fog, you end up in a beautiful place! Don't be afraid of getting lost! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
So many times I wish I could've lived my life without making mistakes. In reality, a path like that doesn't exist. We fall. We get lost. We make mistakes. We get up and Live.
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground. — Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. — John Adams
It feels good to be lost in the right direction.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde
If sequestration takes place, that's going to be a great setback. We don't need to be having something like sequestration that's going to cause these job losses - over 170 million jobs that could be lost. — Maxine Waters
Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost. — Theodore Kaczynski
The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness. — Ramakrishna
Lost You Quotes
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. — Colin Powell
Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself. — Usain Bolt
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back. — Harvey Mackay
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.
You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends — Mark Twain
If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost. — Immortal Technique
Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God. — David Jeremiah
Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.
True love is so hard to find, and they say that once you found it you lost your mind. — Capital STEEZ
Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people. — Al-Ghazali
If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to. — Oprah Winfrey
Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share. — Watchman Nee
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. — Erich Fromm
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. — Washington Irving
I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love. — Leo Buscaglia
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A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in order to go to Heaven. No, that's a lost man with religion. A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed; they have new affections. — Paul Washer
There is no death, only a change of worlds. — Chief Seattle
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. — Saint Augustine
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. — Mitch Albom
Life Lost Quotes
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. — Michael Jordan
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
Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life. — Dogen
I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with individual liberty, I would be a socialist still. For nothing could be better than living a modest, simple, and free life in an egalitarian society. — Karl Popper
Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. — Oscar Wilde
If you dont like the way your life is going, redesign it. Redeem the years you lost. Restore your vision, revive your passion for living, and reclaim what was dormant inside of you. I cannot give you the dream but I can give you the tools to reach the dreams you have inside. — T. D. Jakes
The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours. — Ram Dass
For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports. — Sandra Postel
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. — Nicole Krauss
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants. — Karl Lagerfeld
Lost Time Quotes
I believe the prayers of 30 years ago are not lost. We may not see the results of our labour or sacrifice immediately, but in due time they will produce much fruit. — T. B. Joshua
The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now. — S. N. Goenka
Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
There is no use in running before you are sent; there is no use in attempting to do God's work without God's power. A man working without this unction, a man working without this anointing, a man working without the Holy Ghost upon him, is losing time after all. — Dwight L. Moody
If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally. — Angelus Silesius
Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way. — Diana Ross
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal. — Simone de Beauvoir
Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve. — Earl A Grollman
I get by with a little help from my friends. — John Lennon
God wants to lead you to places you cannot get to without Him, and He does that by the power of His Spirit. He can bring you into the realm of the miraculous-not as a show, but as a demonstration of His love and compassion for the lost, hurting, or needy. Who among us doesn’t want or need that? — Stormie Omartian
Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret. — Big Pun
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom. — Abraham Lincoln
It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely. — Leo Buscaglia
Life's a game made for everyone and love is the prize. So wake me up when it's all over - when I'm wiser and I'm older. All this time I was finding myself and I didn't know I was lost. — Avicii
To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness. — Lily Collins
Get Lost Quotes
You don't even have to be the one praying, but if you get around somebody who really know how to pray-prayer will lift you when you've fallen, prayer will catch you when you've lost your grip, prayer will stop you from going overboard, prayer will bring you out! — T. D. Jakes
You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already. When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up. — Tim Tebow
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. — Paul Fix
Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end. — Joan D. Chittister
Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back. — R. M. Williams
People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules, then that will ultimately result in positive outcomes. — James David Vance
I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead. — Frank Black
I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead. — Black Francis
It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost. — Black Elk
Focus on your own strengths and what you have to offer. Don’t get lost in trying to become like someone else or pretending to be someone else. — Jay Shetty
Lost Things Quotes
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
Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them! — Padraic Pearse
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again. — Ronald Reagan
We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy. — Desmond Tutu
The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing. — Bruno Munari
More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility. — Robert Menzies
The interesting thing will be to see what the weather will do tomorrow. I lost my mirror during the final qualifying session but didn’t notice it, and it had no effect. Now we will see what happens in the race. — Kimi Raikkonen
We've lost our competitive spirit. We've become so obsessed with making kids feel good about themselves that we've lost sight of building the skills they need to actually be good at things. — Michelle Rhee
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you. — Stephanie Perkins
Lost Dog Quotes
No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes. — Gene Hill
Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it. — Amy Sedaris
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his. — James Thurber
No man can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned by a dog. — Gene Hill
I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months. — Mary Tyler Moore
The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven. — Phyllis Mcginley
The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls — Dean Koontz
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. — Thornton Wilder
Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die. — Mary Elizabeth Frye
I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot. — James Spader
Lost Ones Quotes
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again. — Jose Rizal
In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it. — Julius Nyerere
Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits. — Carl Sandburg
Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost. — Henry James
There is only one purpose of pentecost; that is to effectively evangelize lost souls. — T.L. Osborn
The song is ended, but the melody lingers on. — Irving Berlin
Speaking lost two silvers, being silent got one gold. — Thai Proverbs
No one rose to the rescue of Ukraine as it lost a territory equivalent to the size of Belgium. — Tim Marshall
No matter how sinful one may have been, if he has devotion to Mary, it is impossible that he be lost. — Hilary of Poitiers
You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded. — Joseph Stalin
Lost Girl Quotes
While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight - I'll fight to the very end! — William Booth
My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn’t. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life. — Marco Rubio
You are the one girl that made me risk eveything for a future worth having. — Simone Elkeles
I lost my virginity under a bridge. I was having sex with this poor girl and I was trying my best, but I was like Scotland at a World Cup - just pleased to be there. — Russell Howard
I was
the girl of the chain letter,
the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes,
the one of the telephone bills,
the wrinkled photo and the lost connections. — Anne Sexton
How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not so much that you've lost your memory, more like you're submerged in it, like you're living in the brightly vivid underwater world of the past. — Jackie Kay
Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else. — Henry Rollins
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself . — Anne Bronte
While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight. — William Booth
After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us. — Rose Schneiderman
Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours. — Al-Ghazali
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