The opportunities that Gorbachev created for international relations have also been missed, perhaps even lost – here, however, primarily because of the United States. – Stephen Cohen
If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There’s a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play. – Tom Stoppard
My freshman year, I ran for student class president and lost. The next year, I ran for student class vice president, and I won. – Tyra Banks
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. – William Lloyd Garrison
At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me. – Tim Meadows
George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation. – Tony Snow
I don’t have children that I’ve lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads. – Warren Farrell
I’ve never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I’m pretty balanced. – Sting
Scarlett Johansson has a smile she tries to suppress in every movie she makes. She’s been trying to keep a straight face since she appeared with Bill Murray 11 years ago in her breakthrough, ‘Lost in Translation.’ – Steve Erickson
Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor. – William Adams
All that’s bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that’s sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest. – Thomas Moore
People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost. – Stephen Breyer
‘Bum’s Rush’ is a piece about timing, and everything that’s in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles. – Twyla Tharp
I had fractures in my spine that had to be repaired that came as a big surprise; nobody warned me that I might get some really severe, threatening fractures. It was painful, and I lost two inches of height, bang! – Tom Brokaw
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. – Stephen Gardiner
Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either. – Tim Bishop
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. – Walt Whitman
There was a time, actually, when I hadn’t been singing, and I’d lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk. – Tamara Tunie
Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you’ve lost. – Stacy London
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis… only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost. – William Robertson Smith
I’m afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I’m still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly. – Wallace Shawn
A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream. – Steven Erikson
Not a single piece of material culture – not a single object – has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization. – Zahi Hawass
A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing. – Thomas Wolfe