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Lost Quotes (page 75)

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way. John Steinbeck
Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. Maya Angelou
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of..."
There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet. David Herbert Lawrence
Sometimes, as a great treat, I was allowed to remove Nursie's snowy ruffled cap. Without it, she somehow retreated into private life and lost her official status. Then, with elaborate care, I would tie a large blue satin ribbon round her head - with enormous difficulty and holding my breath, because tying a bow is no easy matter for a four-year-old. After which I would step back and exclaim in ecstasy: "Oh Nursie, you ARE beautiful!" At which she would smile and say in her gentle voice: "Am... Agatha Christie
A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I craved prostitutes, base women, because they were deadly and hard and made no personal demands. Nothing was lost when they left. Yet at the same time I yearned for a gentle, good woman, despite the overwhelming price. Charles Bukowski
Alfred North Whitehead quote: "A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost."
A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost. Alfred North Whitehead
- Lose what? A man only has a soul to be won or lost; apart from his life, he has nothing. Past or future lives do not matter - at the moment you are living this one, and you should do so with silent comprehension, joy and enthusiasm. What you must not lose is your enthusiasm. Paulo Coelho
Wallace Stegner quote: "Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like..."
Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it. Wallace Stegner
In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older, he lost his taste for them, but the excellent authors just didn’t fill him with the same enthusiasm Gustave Flaubert
Joseph Gordon-Levitt quote: "I lost youwhen you left meto find yourself."
I lost youwhen you left meto find yourself. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
On a political sickbed a people is usually rejuvenated and rediscovers its spirit, after having gradually lost it in seeking and preserving power. Culture owes its peaks to politically weak ages. Friedrich Nietzsche
Neil Gaiman quote: "Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but..."
Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost. Neil Gaiman
Whether by chance conjunction or not, the “wind-up bird” was a powerful presence in Cinnamon’s story. The cry of this bird was audible only to certain special people, who were guided by it toward inescapable ruin. The will of human beings meant nothing, then, as the veterinarian always seemed to feel. People were no more than dolls set on tabletops, the springs in their backs wound up tight, dolls set to move in ways they could not choose, moving in directions they could not choose. Nearly... Haruki Murakami
...she lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into the pretty glow and imagining herself a contented farmer's wife waiting for her man to come in from the fields. Nora Roberts

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