Lost Quotes - 6
OK Magazine's special Princess Diana 50th birthday tribute issue, p. 67.
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But love a womman that she woot it nought, And she wol quyte it that thow shalt nat fele; Unknowe, unkist, and lost, that is unsought.
Geoffrey Chaucer— c.1385 Troilus and Criseyde, bk.1, l.807-9.
Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.
Nathaniel Hawthorne— 1842 The American Notebooks (published1868), ch.5.
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Margaret Mitchell— 1936 Rhett Butler. Gone with the Wind, ch.9.
As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.
— 1916 'Tall Nettles'.
As the thought comes to me to exorcise and transform this black with a white drawing, it has already become a surface.. .Now I have lost all fear, and begin to draw on the black surface.
hans arp— Hans Arp's quote on drawing on the black surface, in: Search for the Real, Hans Hofmann, Addison Gallery of modern Art, 1948
The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.
walter benjamin— V
Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments. Though we shall short, our labour is not lost if this day surpasses the preceding one.
john calvin— Page 23 (Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life)
Honour the brave who sleepWhere the lost “Titanic” lies,The men who knew what a man must doWhen he looks Death in the eyes.“Women and children first,”—Ah, strong and tender cry!The sons whom women had borne and nursed,Remembered,—and dared to die.The boats crept off in the dark:The great ship groaned: and then,—O stars of the night, who saw that sight,Bear witness, These were men!
henry van dyke— Heroes of the "Titantic" (November 9, 1912).
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
ernest hemingway— Ch. 7 (Death in the Afternoon (1932))
There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.
elisabeth kübler-ross— Ch. 2 (On Death and Dying (1969))
All that's bright must fade,—The brightest and the fleetest;All that's sweet was made,But to be lost when sweetest.
thomas moore— "All that's Bright Must Fade" (Indian Air), National Airs (1823).
Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire;What burns me now? Desire, desire, desire.
theodore roethke— "The Marrow," ll. 11-12
… Henke sensed her terrifying aptitude for destruction as never before. Henke had feared for her sanity; now she knew the truth was almost worse than that. Honor wasn't insane — she simply didn't care. She'd lost not only her sense of balance but any desire to regain it.
david weber— Michelle Henke considering Honor Harrington's state of mind
Karma police I've given all I can It's not enough I've given all I can But we're still on the payroll For a minute there I lost myself
thom yorke— "Karma Police"
[The notion of equilibrium ] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of the toolbag of the economist and one which he can often contribute usefully to other sciences which are occasionally apt to get lost in the trackless exfoliations of purely dynamic systems.
kenneth boulding— p.14 (The Skills of the Economist, 1958)
When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the Government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home.
winston churchill— In the House of Commons (April 18, 1947), cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (1996), Jay, Oxford University Press, p. 93
To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned, To my brethren in their sorrow overseas, Sings a gentleman of England cleanly bred, machinely crammed, And a trooper of the Empress, if you please.
rudyard kipling— Gentlemen-Rankers, Stanza 1.
Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general."
Michel de Montaigne— Book III, ch. 9. Of Vanity
In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.
walter scott— Canto III, stanza 11.
In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.
richard weaver— p. 53 (Ideas have Consequences (1948))
All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.
— Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars (1956)
When I had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance to anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedemonians, never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.
— Plutarch.
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
robert frost— Robert Frost, Conversations on the Craft of Poetry (1959); often quoted as "Poetry is what gets lost in translation".
If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.
william blum— William Blum, Rogue State (2006)
Nothing is really lost.by a life of sacrifice; every thing is lost by failure to obey God's call.
— Henry Parry Liddon, p. 533. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Nor love, nor honour, wealth nor pow'r, Can give the heart a cheerful hour When health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.
john gay— John Gay, Fables (1727), Part I. Fable 31
The doctrine of controls and regulation on private enterprise led to: "a nightmare… [a]n untrained army of underpaid engineers… operating… without clear-cut criteria, vetted thousands of applications on an ad-hoc basis… months in… futile microreview…. again lost months reviewing the same data… interministerial licensing committee… equally ignorant of entrepreneurial realities… also operat[ing] upon ad hoc criteria in the absence of well-ordered priorities…. seek approval for the import of machinery from the capital goods licensing committee… foreign agreements committee… state financial institutions. The result was enormous delays… years… with staggering opportunities for corruption…"
— By: Gurcharan Das
— Source: Ibid
lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais, Stanza 15.
