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We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

George Bernard Shaw

Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

And we should consider everyday lost on which we have not danced at least once: And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Friedrich Nietzsche

By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.

Sri Chinmoy

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the goodThat lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Sophocles

I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

Daniel Boone

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.

William Shakespeare

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Vincent van Gogh

A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.

Michel de Montaigne

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Confucius

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.

Steve Jobs

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

G. K. Chesterton

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Samuel Butler

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Colin Powell

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

Agnes Repplier

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

Ralph Marston

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

John Adams

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

Dylan Thomas

Though lovers be lost, love shall not and death shall have no dominion.

Dylan Thomas

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

Pablo Neruda

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

Erma Bombeck

What is left when honor is lost?

Publilius Syrus

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

Saint Jerome

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Sigmund Freud

I was lost in the game and I don't know why, I was not in good conditions recently and I didn't expect that I could enter the top four.

Ding Junhui

We lost clothes and stuff like that. Now, we've lost everything.

Billy Hill

That's what Mark does. He hustles on every play and gets lost in the mix until he does something like score eight points in a row. That was big for us.

Dustin Maguire

Alabama lost Chuck Davis and they are still growing.

Charles Rhodes

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

John Quincy Adams

With all the industry we've lost, this will be a shot in the arm.

Gerald Brown

I lost concentration on the fifth hole, hit a terrible shot. Apart from that it was pretty good. I am enjoying my golf and will keep learning and see what happens.

Andrew Buckle

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Virginia Woolf

He lost some 50 horsepower and in fact drove a really excellent race, but he was eventually halted by an hydraulic leak.

Pat Symonds

A devastating thing happened. People lost their homes, their families, their lives. We want to bring a little joy back to Louisiana.

Tasmin Mitchell

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

If the price of oil stays high and our taxes along with it, I expect more jobs lost, more flights cut and more airlines in crisis.

James May

We're not looking at it that way. We looked at it that way last year and we lost.

Chris Raso

The guys have stuck with it. We lost some early meets, but seem to be coming through now.

Brian Sloan

Jason has found a lifelong hobby as well as a great form of exercise. He lost 80 pounds since we opened the club.

Dion Shively

I really don't know (what happened). I was not down there. So I can't give you any specifics. I'll say this: No games are won or lost in pre-game.

John Bunting

By its very nature, this case entails a conflict between the spirit and the letter of the law. We lost on the letter of the law. We won on the spirit. And to that extent we are vindicated.

Richard Leigh

It would have been the most embarrassing thing if we would have lost on such a special night. Coach Bennett has accomplished so much for the school. We just had to come through for him.

Sean Bennett

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I saw that we lost the first game after I left. I try to keep in contact with those guys. Some of my coaches and Bracey (Wright) are going to come to the Miami game, so I'm looking forward to seeing them again.

Dwayne Jones

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

Robert Hunter

A game is not won until it is lost.

David Pleat

As we started lifting, he was still with us, but shortly thereafter he lost consciousness.

Brent Thompson

Every child decided that in honor of the children who lost their lives, they would all compete in the competition.

Colleen Roche

Some of us are married. Some of us got fat, got skinny. Some of us have our hair. Some of us lost our hair. It's just good to see the guys. That's the highlight.

Doug Chapman

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

Margaret Mitchell

We have lost the art of sharing and caring.

Hun Sen

The game was great. We were fine out of the beginning and never lost our lead. We didn't wait until halftime to push.

Lukas Sisco

We're hitting, but we're not able to get the hits with runners on base. We've lost a few one-run games lately, and it has been tough.

Ronnie Wulf

We've lost another great public servant.

Mike Byrd

'Lost' has changed the climate for shows that don't answer all your questions by the end of every episode.

Shaun Cassidy

We lost track of her a couple times. And she's too good of a shooter to lose track of.

Justin Schommer

If we didn't get five (interceptions), then we didn't accomplish what we set out to do. We got four. We're going to count the fumble (Smith lost one of his two fumbles). We didn't have a great game. Even though we won, we felt like we didn't play well.

Nick Harper

If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's lost all it's drive and all it's fun.

Carol Channing

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

John Jay Chapman

We lost two very close matches. I thought we played well considering how much competition we've had.

Jason Olson

We were doing good until the sixth inning, and then it seems like we just lost focus. It seemed like we had no idea what to do with the ball.

Scott Winfrey

Cartridges were misplaced or lost. Entire precincts are suspect because cartridges failed.

Maureen Murphy

He had lost a lot of weight. He definitely had to hold his pants up with his hands.

Louie Fernandez

Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.

Kathe Kollwitz

It's a loss. We are 2-1. What happened last year doesn't matter. We beat them once and lost to them once. We lost to them when it counted and that's all that matters about last year.

Alan Faneca

I can't tell you when the last time Lipan lost an overtime game.

Tommy Bleeker

I lost my old one and got a new one.

Scott Martin

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Orison Swett Marden

It was a terrible year. We lost money.

Dave Eckberg

I think it's an effort to try to gain some credibility by the judiciary in arena in which they've lost so much face. The credibility of the Mexican judiciary is almost nil.

Miguel Tinker Salas

I've lost two jobs this season because I couldn't get people — any people. And I'm one of the largest labor suppliers around here. If I'm having trouble, everybody's having trouble.

Fred Garza

We are very sorry that they lost their loved ones.

Steve Sadow

The first priority is to accommodate those teams that have lost the most amount of games.

John Gillette

We don't think it's a lost cause. It's the most profitable industry in the world.

John Harmer

We have to be more disciplined, doing what we do regardless of how the game is going or flowing. We lost our discipline in the first game.

Chet Reed

The fact we lost (at home) was a big motivation for winning here. (Monroe) is a great place to play. The crowd is great and the atmosphere is fun.

Shane Kieler

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Ethel Percy Andrus

I believe I was extremely greedy. I've lost my moral compass and did things I regret.

Andrew Fastow

I have three children who are absolutely devastated. My older kids (understand) but my 5-year-old doesn't. She just lost three baby brothers.

Danielle Bimber

It's clear that Virgil has lost his way and should have known better than accepting nearly $80,000 in the contributions.

Bern Ewert

It's in that limbo stage, lost in space somewhere.

Robert Crawford

We played very good basketball on the defensive end and that's a credit to our kids. But we struggled on the offensive end. We've lost our offensive efficiency since the Christmas break.

Mark Ritter

We lost 37 of our 90 rental properties. Well, 38 if you include the one that burned.

Brad Cox

It was really important to me. It would have been my first major league complete game. It didn't happen and I'm upset that the team lost.

Felix Hernandez

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art.. if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

John Foster Dulles

I lost a copy of the Beatles' White album on vinyl with the original release date.

Stephanie Regan

I never felt like I'd be lost in the shuffle. Coach told me I was an important part of this team.

Ryan Werch

I'm not feeling any better (because) we lost two games. I've still got a lot of work to do.

Kirk Walters

In those communities it's mostly individual customers who have lost power where trees have fallen on the service line.

Dan Sharp

Some people say they have lost their animals. But it could have been a lot worse.

Wanda Clark

I don't believe every download is a lost sale.

Jeff Tweedy

Every firefighter, police officer and city councilman lost everything personally and professionally. All the city had left was a backhoe.

Tommy Longo

This has been a great concern of these folks in terms of data leakage, in files being copied on to these devices and then taken home or potentially lost.

Shanen Boettcher

I've lost only about 20 bars over the last six years.

Melanie Payne

We lost to Jacksonville by one point.

Chad Calabria

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.

Bob Uecker

I lost a dog before. I know somebody's out there looking for their baby.

Alicia Bell

We did have our chances. It was a game of bounces, and we didn't find one. I was surprised we lost.

Chris Osgood

The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost.

Tom Seaver

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?

Quentin Crisp

I can't speak for them. But we've lost some games, too. It makes you face reality, that there are some things you needed to improve on.

Abdul Hodge

What is the difference between exploring and being lost?

Dan Eldon

I expected a tough game. They're much-improved. For nine batters, we didn't hit the ball. That's three innings you lost.

Glenn Rutenbar

Our downfall was that we lost our composure there a little bit at the end. Offensively we just haven't put it all together yet.

Chris Kestner

As a result of our investigation, we've determined the information did not reach its destination, and is missing and presumed lost.

Tom Goldstein

Really, they're behind the curve. They've lost to AMD on multiple directions, but the most important have been energy and power.

Ben Lynch

Basically they need everything. They lost virtually everything.

Bob Mckibben

With about 85 television channels [carrying advertising], how do you break out of the clutter? Clients have lost faith [in] the creative abilities of advertising agencies, and just want a famous face to plug their products.

Anirban Das

Tonight, Houston just beat Detroit by a buzzer and New York lost to Connecticut. That helps us because we pick a game up on each one of our competitors.

Richie Adubato

We lost two sports but we did not get anyone in. This has created a lot of concerns and worries.

Sergei Bubka

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.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

The mechanism that was introduced to insulate the governor from political interference is now protecting the governor in a case where he has lost completely credibility.

Roberto D'alimonte

I've always believed in going after writers. I've been criticized for it to. I've turned down big stars for things and I've lost friends over it.

Robert Evans

I've already lost two slots from past cuts. We can't afford to lay anyone off and be efficient. We have nowhere left to cut.

Cheyenne Albro

It's not like he lost control, ... He pretty much had a choice to make.

Robert Nichols

We came out ready to hit. We came down, we lost a game or two and I think we bounced right back up. Everybody's swinging the bat.

Nick Hernandez

We lost one we should have won. We just let our guard down, lost our focus in the seventh inning and watched it slip away.

Robert Luckadoo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

We were shorthanded, but that wasn't why we lost.

Bill Bell

She feels the system has failed her. She lost her daughter in such a horrible way and nobody would do anything for her.

Ivy Reaves

We lost a lot, and those guys will be missed. But we have the numbers — it's the biggest turnout we've ever had — I don't ever remember having 60 kids come out.

Jim Bilsborrow

When the sea turned into honey, the poor man lost his spoon.

Bulgarian Proverb

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

Voltaire

We lost a lot of close matches but it was a good season.

Matt Rossi

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

W. C. Fields

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.

Voltaire

I'll tell you what, if I'd have lost that race I'd have been sick, that's for sure.

Reed Sorenson

I have lost the half of myself – a soul for which mine was made.

Voltaire

We thought we'd put runs on the board early in the game but we didn't. (Vince) could have lost composure, and the team could have lost composure, but they didn't.

Mike Viola

We lost a lot from last year, so we're going to rely on some younger players this year.

Gary Long

In that first game, we jumped all over them early. Then we lost our intensity and it stayed down. We didn't play to our ability.

Joe Gallegos

It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.

Anaxagoras

We lost against Hamburg in the first half of the season and did not become worse because of it. Instead, we left the others behind and if that happens again, I can live with this defeat.

Felix Magath

This was our last home game. We haven't lost at home this year, and we didn't want to tonight.

Guy Smith

You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels.

Merry Browne

Our top 3 teams all made it into the round of 32 but all of them lost in that round, and a couple of them had really close matches.

Bobby Bayliss

My father said you can't make a living in birds... my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant.

Roger Tory Peterson

Yes, we are looking forward to a chance getting even with them. We should have never lost to them the first time.

Judy Coker

More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause.

Harry Vardon

He lost his venue, his record label, his apartment. This guy was exactly like me and he's got nothing.

Ryan Lynch

We wanted to go 3-1 and we ended up 2-2 (in the tournament). We lost to two very good baseball teams.

Chris Motes

It's one of those situations where it really impressed me. We had two people that nearly had lost their lives. Something like this you see on a TV show.

Cmdr. Lee Vance

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.

Martin Henderson

The artifact itself and its contents were in danger of being lost forever.

Terry Garcia

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

Marcel Proust

We lost a lot of key guys on defense, and coaches want to see young guys step up. That's what they did. They did really well.

Kenny Phillips

The only thing worse than a battle lost is a battle won.

Arthur Wellesley

We are disappointed that we lost but I am proud of the effort the kids gave. I think we are cutting back on our mistakes and progressing each game.

Ricky Stokes

We lost a little focus and I think we got a little focus back after they got the runs. We're just kind of glad to get out of there with the win.

Jimmy Harris

We're not happy that we lost. Quite honestly, I feel like they may have wanted it more than us tonight.

Mike Rudd

It's nice that the White Sox lost, but we have to come back and take care of business.

Scott Elarton

These guys (Domino's corporate officials) lost a lot and they still helped.

Tom Griffin

You are always disappointed with a loss, but I'm more disappointed in how we lost. R-B is a good team and deserved to win, but I think we lost with a very sub-par effort and sub-par performance.

Dennis Cromer

I'm upset we lost this game.

Wayne Morgan

My help is all staying with me for this extra month; I haven't lost one person. That's loyalty for you.

John Bacino

I just missed being out there with all my friends and having fun playing on Friday nights. I kind of felt bad for the guys when they lost. I kind of felt like I should be out there helping them.

John Ashworth

It's a tough loss and we shouldn't have lost the game in the first place. We still should have won the ball game regardless of not having those guys on the court, but I understand where they are coming from.

Patrick Patterson

I don't know how they lost so many games with those three guys.

Sean Jones

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Arthur Wellesley

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

We are looking to keep our errors to a minimum this year. We lost to Lone Peak by one run because we had two errors. If we can keep the errors down we feel we can compete with anybody.

Leslie Jones

We finished tonight and I had talked about how we didn't finish in the other two games. We felt they didn't beat us, but it was more that we lost the games.

Von Graffin

We lost our best composites technician because there's no child care.

Aleta Jackson

Because she panicked and overreacted, two girls were killed, one girl lost a leg, and just last month, the father of the girl who was driving and was killed instantly killed himself because he couldn't live without his daughter anymore. You don't have to be going that fast.

Jeff Payne

We have not lost our way, our way has lost us....

Gaelic Proverb

We've lost a key defensive player and right now we don't know how long Pat will be out. He'll be tough to replace.

George Sullivan

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

Chelsea Clinton

It seems to me the demand is improving. To land the deal, I think you still have to get really aggressive in the pricing. We've lost a couple of deals because we didn't drop the rent.

Brad Baker

(Hernandez) produced for us. He did very well. He didn't give up anything. There was a part where it seemed like he lost his cool, but other than that I had complete confidence in him.

Roland Fite

We have to get rid of that one bad inning. It has happened in every game we've lost, but we've also won in spite of it.

Jay Marston

It was a senseless crime. He lost his life for nothing.

Carolyn Scott

I lost my house in Waveland.

Don Murray

I hear no buzz about the Olympics any more. The Olympics has lost its soul.

Irma Zandl

We did not do a good job of stopping them inside at all. In the paint, we lost the game in there. They hit some big 3s, but we lost it inside.

Steve Ottoson

I didn't know what else to do. I lost everything.

Michael Charles

We played Dumas and lost to them (61-57) in the regional. We're just glad to get to play another day.

Roy Backus

We lost a lot of markets to the imports and if you just say, 'Hey you can't have these workers anymore,' It'll just, we'll die with that. We'll die with that.

Jack Brooks

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arise from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We lost a sense of urgency while guarding him.

Zabian Dowdell

Saturn has been a laggard when it comes to new vehicles, so expanding the lineup is a good sign. One of the criticisms is that GM targeted Saturn to fight the Japanese but without expanding the lineup, they've lost buyers.

Catherine Madden

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

They litigated and lost, and now they don't get a free pass.

Don Stout

That's not why we lost the game. We couldn't do anything.

Robert Fick

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

James Thurber

That's one of the biggest employers in Middletown. We've lost a lot of industry in this area, and we can't afford to lose anymore.

Jim Limerick

If we don't get this done, the very soul of Minnesota will be lost.

Lance Ness

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

Jean Kerr

Chase Duncan lost his match last year by pin and this year, against the same kid, won 14-6. Not only did he win, but he turned it on at the end for another major decision.

Robert Nebeker

We have lost a priest at a time when there is a shortage of priests, and that is a sad event.

Justin O'byrne

This win was real important because they didn't have two of their players and if we would have lost it would have hurt our morale.

Reggie Hamilton

Obviously we played all right. We lost a one-goal game in double-overtime.

Gary Roberts

I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.

Harriet Tubman

We saw a lot of dollar selling last week, so the dollar's regaining some lost territory.

Sophia Drossos

In some small way, I'm doing my part on behalf of those people who lost everything. I am giving back by doing something I can do, which is cook New Orleans food like no one else.

Bill Wade

They better close it down. It's unsafe. It's unfit. My God, 12 men lost their lives.

Ann Meredith

First base and shortstop are the only places where we lost players from last year.

Mark Riggin

We were looking to close up a tax loophole. There's real money out there being lost. It's starting to be real money, serious money.

Hut Landon