Lost Quotes - Page 29

• If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pleasure, Great Work, Thrive

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.39, Ravenio Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

  James Thurber

  Sad, Death, Desire

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

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

  Sting

  Who I Am, Perspective, Wells

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  11 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  20 Copy quote

• She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara. His lost love.

  Robert Jordan

  Lost Love, Heart, Eye

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  18 Copy quote

• Little mouse, you were so quick, so bright, so sweet, so full of life. And you still are everything you were then. None of it’s lost forever. All that promise, all that hope, that love and goodness—it’s still inside you. No one can take the gifts God gave you. Only you.

  Dean Koontz

  Sweet, Forever, Promise

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.213, Bantam

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

  4 Copy quote

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

  Taylor Swift

  People, My Friends, Watchers

  7 Copy quote

• The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf, A dolphin death, O this particular loss A Heaven-mourned; for if no angel cried If this small one was tossed away as dross, The very galaxies would have lied. How shall we sing our love's song now In this strange land where all are born to die? Each tree and leaf and star show how The universe is part of this one cry, Every life is noted and is cherished, and nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Song, Stars, Pain

  28 Copy quote

• the lost women I need to know their names those women I would have walked with, jauntily the way men go in groups swinging their arms, and the ones those sweating women whom I would have joined After a hard game to chew the fat what would we have called each other laughing joking into our beer? where are my gangs, my teams, my mislaid sisters? all the women who could have known me, where in the world are their names?

  Lucille Clifton

  Team, Beer, Men

  Lucille Clifton (1993). “Next: new poems”, Bookslinger

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost.

  Terry Goodkind

  Weight, Bears, Sin

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “The First Confessor: Sword of Truth: The Prequel”, p.458, Head of Zeus

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day, and bright The tiny world of lovers' arms. Silence invades the breathing wood Where drowsy limbs a treasure keep, Now greenly falls the learned shade Across the sleeping brows And stirs their secret to a smile. Restored! Returned! The lost are borne On seas of shipwreck home at last: See! In a fire of praising burns The dry dumb past, and we Our life-day long shall part no more.

  W. H. Auden

  Fall, Sleep, Home

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• While carefully synchronizing our wings-they almost touched-Fang leaned in,gently put one hand behind my neck and kissed me.It was just about close to heaven i'll ever get,I guess.I closed my eyes,lost in the feeling of flying and kissing and being with the one person in the world I completely ,utterly trusted.

  James Patterson

  Eye, Kissing, Hands

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

  James Thurber

  Home, Night, Gertrude

  7 Copy quote

• 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”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source