Lost Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

  Mark Twain

  Knowledge, Science, Rainbow

  A Tramp Abroad ch. 42 (1880)

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• Funny thing, your brain, how it always functions on one level or another. How, even stuck in some sort of subconcious limbo, it works your lungs, your muscle twitches, your heart, in fact, in symphony with your heart, allowing it to feel love. Pain. Jealousy. Guilt. I wonder if it’s the same for people, lost in comas. Is there really such a thing

  Ellen Hopkins

  Pain, Heart, Funny Things

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

  Thomas Paine

  Kings, Government, Dresses

  Common Sense (1776)

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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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• All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.

  C. S. Lewis

  Forever, Unattainable, Consciousness

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there isn't a kid I've met who will help another kid out of a humiliating situation. We just aren't built that way.

  David Lubar

  Baseball, Kids, Rivers

  David Lubar (2007). “Hidden Talents”, p.60, Macmillan

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• That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, War, Home

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost

  Amiri Baraka

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1975). “Three books by Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones).”, Grove Pr

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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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• I will weep no more for the lost, asleep in their water graves.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Water, Graves

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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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• She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save only for the glint of them and he could see her throat move in the light and he saw in her face and in her figure something he'd not seen before and the name of that thing was sorrow.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Moving, Eye, Light

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.136, Pan Macmillan

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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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