Lost Quotes - Page 55

We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.

Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.

Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars.

I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.

It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.

Before I began seeing a therapist, I lost a few iPhones due to chucking them across a room.

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

Deleted scenes are like in a middle gray zone. It's like, well, they're deleted because they're not good or you lost the battle and you couldn't put them in the movie.

If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.

As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.

If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.

Have I been blind, have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind?

He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

But in the business I had, we invested in over 100 different businesses and net-net, taking out the ones where we lost jobs and those that we added, those businesses have now added over 100,000 jobs.

I shot you, all right," he said, "and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it yet. I gained something, too." What?" I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.

Lost love is still love.

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.

Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.

Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love.

Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.

it is only when no one remembers that you are truly lost. That is the true death.

I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

The very nature of paradise is that it will be lost.