Lost Quotes - Page 26

• In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

  Stendhal

  Love, Broken Heart, Passion

  Stendhal (1957). “Love”, Merlin Pr

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• Like all the other arrivals to the tournament, Hank had erected a banner in front. It was a long, tapering pennant with a blue and red circular design in the center and the words GO CUBS! on both sides. Interesting," said Hugo. "What does it mean?" It was a gift from Sam," Hank explained as they entered the tent. "He said it used to represent Triumph over Adversity, but now better represents Impossible Quests and Lost Causes." I think I preferred not knowing that," said Hugo. Hank grinned. "You're a Sox fan too, hey?

  James A. Owen

  Mean, Adversity, Thinking

  James A. Owen (2010). “The Indigo King”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.

  Charles Bukowski

  Morning, Tuesday, Church

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.54, Canongate Books

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• When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you're a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family - that's your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me.

  Kristen Stewart

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.

  Sting

  Who I Am, Perspective, Wells

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• 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

  Giants, World, May

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• If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.

  Tom Stoppard

  Play, Knowing, Perfect

  "Pacing It" by Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. March 7, 2011.

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• The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Years, Horizon, Who We Are

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• Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.

  John Sununu

  Ideas, Giving, Perspective

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• Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Solitude, Immense, Loses

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (p. 166), 1967.

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• The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.

  David Suzuki

  Home, Ecosystems, People

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• Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning for my lost innocence. It never looked like living. The doctors despaired of it from the start... I am never quite alone. Members of my family keep turning up and collecting luggage and going away again, but the white raspberries are ripe. I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits. Love or what you will. S.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Love, Writing, Italian

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• If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

  Taylor Swift

  People, My Friends, Watchers

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• I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?

  T. S. Eliot

  Passion, Heart, Sight

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.

  Amy Tan

  Unseen, Hearing, Joy Luck Club

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.67, Penguin

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• You couldn't pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned away at this, it would turn away at something greater, then more and more until your heart stayed averted, immobile, your imagination redistributed away from the world and back only toward the bad maps of yourself, the sour pools of your own pulse, your own tiny, mean, and pointless wants.

  Lorrie Moore

  Heart, Mean, Blood

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Birds of America: Stories”, p.136, Vintage

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• I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.

  Daniel Tammet

  Years, Skills, Long

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• She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!

  Salman Rushdie

  Dynamite, Rushdie

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.

  Lewis Thomas

  Mistake, Stupidity, Encounters

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• When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Missing, Soul, Alive

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• A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

  Emma Thompson

  Friends, New York, Gay

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• Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.

  Edward Thorndike

  Dog, Magazines, Accounts

  Edward Lee Thorndike (1898). “Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals”

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• Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

  Mark Twain

  Hope, Tree, Lord

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.115, 1st World Publishing

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• I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Cancer, Years, Feels

  "Why Is Sam Taylor-Wood Smiling?" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 23, 2010.

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