True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in.
I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.
We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.
I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.
Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.
His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.
I've had lots of ups and downs. I've had situations where I've gone against the rules, and I've lost everything.
For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.
In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.
It's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order.
When you pour out words from your heart to your lover, make sure they aren't on a paper vessel and lost to the wind.
The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able to regain this consent.
In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught.
I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.
India is mostly vegetarian, and I think that will be crucial to changing the world. I think the United States is lost.
