 That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. Author: A. E. Housman
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| My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong. Author: A. J. Foyt
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| I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost. Author: Adam Clarke
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| No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been. Author: Adelaide Anne Procter
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| Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights. Author: Adolf Galland
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| Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia. Author: Adolf Galland
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| I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing. Author: Adrian Grenier
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| The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology. Author: Agnes E. Meyer
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| The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. Author: Agnes Repplier
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| No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians. Author: Alan Hovhaness
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| I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope. Author: Alanis Morissette
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| Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. Author: Albert J. Nock
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| Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. Author: Albert Schweitzer
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| I lost a lot of territory I really enjoyed having, but there was no doubt I had to do it to help Democrats. Author: Albert Wynn
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| The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination. Author: Alexander Cockburn
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| 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
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| In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. Author: Alfred Whitney Griswold
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| Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story. Author: Alice Munro
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| Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. Author: Allan Bloom
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| Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost. Author: Allen Klein
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| The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock. Author: Allen Klein
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| When the new ownership came in, they made some decisions I wasn't pleased with. And when they changed the whole aspect of it, I just totally lost interest. Author: Alonzo Mourning
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| I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress. Author: Amber Tamblyn
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| Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. Author: Ambrose Bierce
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| The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia. Author: Anatoly Chubais
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| It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me. Author: Anaxagoras
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| Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel. Author: Andre Maurois
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| I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass. Author: Andrew Fastow
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| The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half. Author: Andrew Greeley
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| We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention. Author: Andrew Wiles
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| I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God. Author: Andy Dick
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| Lost in Space brings back a lot of memories for people, and I think that any time you're involved in something that has such a long-lasting appeal, you feel very blessed by that. Author: Angela Cartwright
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| By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound. Author: Angelus Silesius
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| The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff. Author: Anita Diament
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| Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost. Author: Anna Freud
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| It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost. Author: Anna Freud
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| I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself . Author: Anne Bronte
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| In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost. Author: Anne Sophie Swetchine
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| I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much. Author: Anthony Quinn
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| New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker. Author: Anthony Weiner
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| There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly. Author: Antisthenes
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| My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search. Author: Antonio Tabucchi
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| Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod. Author: Aristophanes
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| I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers. Author: Armistead Maupin
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| Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands? Author: Arna Bontemps
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| Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them? Author: Arthur Hugh Clough
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| Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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| Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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| Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won. Author: Arthur Wellesley
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| Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. Author: Arthur Wellesley
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| I looked, and saw that Bob had entirely lost his left ear, and a large piece from his left cheek. His right eye was a little discoloured, and the blood flowed profusely from his wounds. Author: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
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| A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions. Author: Augustus Hare
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| If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost. Author: Barack Obama
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| And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle. Author: Barry McGuire
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| Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost. Author: Barry Williams
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| Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart. Author: Basil Rathbone
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| Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those. Author: Bear Bryant
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| We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one. Author: Beck
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| God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money. Author: Ben Affleck
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| Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure. Author: Benazir Bhutto
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| Lost time is never found again. Author: Benjamin Franklin
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| The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost. Author: Bennett Cerf
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| I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot. Author: Bernadette Peters
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| I never lost money by turning a profit. Author: Bernard Baruch
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| Nobody ever lost money taking a profit. Author: Bernard Baruch
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| I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way. Author: Bernie Ebbers
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| I've lost my faith in science. Author: Bette Davis
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| Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. Author: Betty Friedan
Topics: Age |
| People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind. Author: Bianca Jagger
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| Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates. Author: Bill Brandt
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| And of course, I absolutely loved making Lost in Space as a kid. Author: Bill Mumy
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| From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice. Author: Bill Mumy
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| Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series. Author: Bill Mumy
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| Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it? Author: Billy Graham
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| The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. Author: Billy Graham
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| When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. Author: Billy Graham
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| I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist. Author: Billy Joel
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| I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public. Author: Billy Tauzin
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| I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion. Author: Billy Tauzin
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| Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. Author: Blaise Pascal
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| The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it. Author: Blaise Pascal
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| Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people. Author: Bob Dylan
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| Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe. Author: Bob Taft
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| Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times. Author: Bob Uecker
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| Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island. Author: Bobby Jindal
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| I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults. Author: Bobby Vinton
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| So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush. Author: Bonnie Tyler
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| I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom. Author: Boris Becker
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| That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things. Author: Boris Becker
Topics: Sports |
| When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally. Author: Boris Spassky
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| Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year. Author: Brad Holland
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| What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides. Author: Brendan Behan
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| At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self. Author: Brendan Francis
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| And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on. Author: Brett Favre
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| Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source. Author: Brian Celio
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| What's love if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get back once lost? What's hate if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get rid of once found? Author: Brian Celio
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| So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point. Author: Brian De Palma
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| Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view. Author: Brian Ferneyhough
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