Lost Quotes - Page 31

• At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.

  Nathanael West

  College, Expression, Years

  Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.14, New Directions Publishing

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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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• What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.

  Alice Sebold

  Mean, Lovely, Rays

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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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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• If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?

  Jodi Picoult

  People, Drifting, Thousand

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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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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• From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of stars. The wind passing over his unscarred face was cold from the snow of the surrounding mountains, and Dustfinger relished life as if he were tasting it for the first time. The longing it brought, and the desire. All the bitterness, all the sweetness, even if it was only for a while, never for more than a while, everything gained and lost, lost and found again.

  Cornelia Funke

  Stars, Reflection, Night

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.491, Scholastic Inc.

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• Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Men, Names, Giving

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “A Wizard of Earthsea: The First Book of Earthsea”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!

  Ann Patchett

  Heart, Fate, Destiny

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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 was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.

  Ann Brashares

  People, Lost Everything, Bees

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.158, Delacorte Press

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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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• And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly by means of the usual glowing stare and deep-throated growl, which had always worked on the damned in the past. This time they had earned him a whack on the nose that had made his eyes water. Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls. He was looking forward to a further cat experiment, which he planned would consist of jumping around and yapping excitedly at it. It was a long shot, but it just might work.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dog, Mean, Cat

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman, ‎Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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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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• (He) felt lost and alone without his old friend, though he barely recognized him anymore. He wondered if they could ever be friends again.

  Erin Hunter

  Old Friends, Friends Again, Felt

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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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• You shall be my roots and I will be your shade, though the sun burns my leaves. You shall quench my thirst and I will feed you fruit, though time takes my seed. And when I'm lost and can tell nothing of this earth you will give me hope. And my voice you will always hear. And my hand you will always have. For I will shelter you. And I will comfort you. And even when we are nothing left, not even in death, I will remember you.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Remember You, Remembers You, Hands

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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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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