Lost Quotes - Page 34

Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment.

We pick up the lost bits and pieces, from the grass where we left them, and bring them with us into a future that will be made up of so much more as well.

Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost.

Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.

The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us.

The explorer is the person who is lost.

Michael left because of the Bulls' management, not because he'd lost his love of playing the game.

The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost.

It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them.

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

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

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

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

That transformation is to lose everything is an understatement so vast as to be without meaning. One has to lose everything, and one has to lose the one who has lost everything.

Some things were better lost than found.

I do believe that almost everything I do is based on my feelings, not on my intellect. Though But we won't chase ourselves up the particular sentiment, or we'll get lost.

it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.

I know I would crumble if I lost you.

Maybe that was the price of loving someone: You lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.

- If I tell you, will you let met go? - You bet, partner. [...] - You promised! - Nope. I said "you bet." You did ... and you lost.

If character be irrecoverably lost, then indeed there will be nothing left worth saving.

An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.