Lost Quotes - Page 32

• It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Lost Youth, Age

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.164, Diversion Books

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• Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

  Andre Maurois

  Titles, Illusion, Novel

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• Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

  Josh McDowell

  Arriving, Found, Temper

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• Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.

  Phil McGraw

  Confused, Coping Mechanisms, Giving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

  Tim McGraw

  Dad, Kids, Cowboy

  "Flicka". Interview with David Bruce, www.hollywoodjesus.com. May 28, 2005.

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• [General Curtis] LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

  Robert McNamara

  Children, Winning, Men

  "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Documentary, www.imdb.com. August 30, 2003.

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• As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

  Margaret Mead

  Birthday, Teacher, Long Distance

  Margaret Mead (1970). “Culture and Commitment”

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• Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.

  Angela Merkel

  War, Europe, Two

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• Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

  W. S. Merwin

  Poetry, Ends, Whole

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• A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

  Moby

  Scary, Manhattan, Brooklyn

  "Moby Discusses His ISSUEs". Interview With Nell Alk, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Children, Lost Love, Discipline

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• All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

  Thomas Moore

  Sweet, Losing, Made

  Thomas Moore (1823). “Irish Melodies, National Airs, Sacred Songs, Ballads, Etc”, p.229

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• I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

  Alanis Morissette

  Generations, Lost Hope, Generation X

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• I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Fall, Phones, Silence

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• I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.

  Jose Mourinho

  Christmas, Father, Years

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• It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Laughter, Laughing, Trying

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.133, Regent College Publishing

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• How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

  Max Muller

  Beautiful, Thinking, May

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.

  Brittany Murphy

  Fun, Lost Love, Romance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

  Pervez Musharraf

  Loss, Doubt, Pakistan

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• I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point where you look in their eyes and they knew it was over. And there was never that point with Clinton. He never quit. He never gave up.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Eye, Campaigns, Looks

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• If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Smell, Kitchen, Ifs

  "Nathan Myhrvold’s Counterintuitive Advice On Red Wine, Foie Gras, Salad" by Joe Satran, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Long, People, News

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• I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Winning, Tennis

  Interview with Victoria Coren, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. July 25, 2012.

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• I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

  V. S. Naipaul

  World, London, Hard

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Heart, Cutting, Years

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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