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Lost Quotes

I’ve lost a couple children, I’ve lost a wife and it is incredibly difficult to go through and it’s harder to go through when you haven’t had an opportunity to be with the person while they’re dying.

– Joe Biden

On difficulty that comes with not being able to be with loved ones dying from coronavirus.

Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.

– Harmony Korine

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

– Horace Mann

I have won elections and I have lost elections.

– Hillary Clinton

My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly’s in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.

– Gregory Maguire

I don’t recognize my people anymore. I feel Somalia is lost. There is no Somalia. It is just a name.

– Hawa Abdi

Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public’s money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs – but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.

– Ha-Joon Chang

I didn’t even realize this at first, but there’s almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn’t have a dead mother or a lost parent.

– Gregory Maguire

I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn’t find my way back. The cops even had to come.

– Gabriel Basso

It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.

– George Horace Lorimer

I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.

– Hermann Maier

In 2004, I wrote ‘What We’ve Lost,’ a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration’s actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions.

– Graydon Carter

I lost the ball in the moon.

– Hank Sauer

I used to dream about Gorbachev before he lost power. I’d go into a panic because I was meeting him, and I had nothing to wear. I’d ask my brother what to do, and he’d tell me to wear my dressing gown. I’d tell him I can’t – it’s too horrible. He’d tell me to wear his as well. So I’d meet Gorbachev wearing two dressing gowns.

– Hugh Grant

Scarlett Johansson was wonderful in ‘Lost in Translation,’ and then, seemingly within a couple of weeks, she became completely Hollywoodised. I was shocked. I didn’t recognise her. I hope to God it’s just a phase.

– Ian Holm

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

– Hedy Lamarr

The viewing figures for ‘Lost’ were huge. I don’t think the viewing figures for ‘The 100’ are up there with ‘Lost’; hopefully, they will be.

– Henry Ian Cusick

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It was when my American coach Dan Pfaff came over from the States in 2009 and started working with me that we really began to look at my diet. He decided I was eating too many carbohydrates, so I cut back on bread. Over the next year I lost weight and became leaner.

– Greg Rutherford

Most one run games are lost, not won.

– Gene Mauch

The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

– George Bernard Shaw

Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.

Coming off a show like ‘Lost,’ there were other offers, but it was difficult to get excited about anything because ‘Lost’ was such a great piece of writing and such a hit show.

– Henry Ian Cusick

Many people say I believe aliens built the pyramids. I don’t. In fact I’m not a supporter of the ‘ancient alien’ hypothesis at all. I think a lost human civilization is a much better explanation of the mysteries and paradoxes of ancient cultures.

– Graham Hancock

When I was filming ‘Lost,’ we’d be in the jungle. The only thing we had to contend with was the sound of the ocean. That was it, really.

– Henry Ian Cusick

I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline.

– Hunter Tylo

I would like to have a ‘Lost’ clapper board with the numbers and the clock at the top.

– Henry Ian Cusick

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

– Henry David Thoreau

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.

– Henry Rollins

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

– Harry Vardon

That’s the thing with ‘Lost’: you can put a spin on so many things.

– Henry Ian Cusick

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