All writers - all beings - are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force. . . All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress. . . I got lost on the subway.
Nothing that is of real value can be lost, only the false dissolves
You gave me back the paradise That I thought I lost for good You helped me find the reasons why It took me by surprise that you understood You knew all along What I never wanted to say Until I learned to love myself I was never ever lovin' anybody else.
Vietnam is the Liberals' favorite was because America lost
I'm a real dumb-dumb in real life. I'm just book smart. But definitely not street smart. The other day I lost my jacket in a cab. And I'll forget things every time I leave the house.
And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking.
The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave.
The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an end. It allows the audience to watch any given episode and can drop right in and not feel lost. I think the stark, raw structure has a lot to do with its longevity.
A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.
This, however, is sure: nothing is really lost. Any influence for good, no matter how ephemeral, makes its mark: it helps to leaven the loaf of evil: it leaves a loophole, albeit a small one, for a future escape from bondage.
I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.
The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.
Kellyanne's [Conway] pointing out, you people say we don't have a mandate? You don't have a [Democratic] party. You've lost a thousand legislative seats. You only have five states.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.